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"They're Magically Delicious..." http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/nby_dig/id/2848 Originally shared by Susan Jahn "@chicagotribune - The "Book of Magical Charms," which dates to the 1600s, arrived at the Newberry Library in 1988, bundled with some old medical texts. The book wasn’t signed, and nobody knew who had written it. For years it existed as a curiosity, a mysterious antique without authorship. They posted its 117 pages online this spring for help deciphering its contents. Some of its charms: Doth ye a toothache? “Take a tooth out of a deadman’s skull and hange the same about the partie’s neck ...” Lost ye voice? “Dip 5 Sage leaves in mustard, lay them under his tong, closing his mouth agayn. This will cause him to speake ...” (Only do this, the spell warns, if the ailing soul is still alive.) Since May, the book has been read on the library’s website more than 300,000 times and every page was transcribed and translated and ...

Life Is A Cabaret, Old Chum Putting the "check-rein" on Demon Jazz in the Big Apple. "Well, there has been altogether too much ‘running wild’ in some of these night clubs and, in the judgment of your Committee, the ‘wild’ stranger and the foolish native should have the check-rein applied a little bit,” the Board of Alderman’s Committee on Local Laws wrote in the 1920s. “Your Committee believes that these ‘wild’ people should not be tumbling out of these resorts at six or seven o’clock in the morning to the scandal and annoyance of decent residents on their way to daily employment.” "...although, as Jezebel points out, under the city’s zoning laws, dancing will still only be technically legal in certain commercial manufacturing districts." Originally shared by Washington Post NYC bids good riddance to law that stifled Ray Charles and infuriated Frank Sinatra http://wapo.st/2xD73nM

Surrender To The Pink! Vampire Flamingos! Los Straitjackets - Rockula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dbKFWXsQlk

Getting The Point Originally shared by **** Such a great comment thread. https://twitter.com/KateHarding/status/924271290751574016?s=09

Finish Line

The Rift

Out Of The Box The Trav-L-Lift had major circulatory malfunctions yesterday, and the boat nearly failed to get in the water. Ain't much wind, but maybe will be enough to race later in the day.

Brad, Janet, Rocky... BULLWINKLE! TOO MANY TIMES! He's so gay, he can't even float straight! Waiter, waiter, there's a bisexual in my soup! Shut up, or everyone will want one. Waiter, waiter, there's two bisexuals in my soup! (Dead, like in all the movies) There are two fewer virgins in the world tonight. We were the oldest folks there.

Mind The Gap Originally shared by **** Artist Ana Teresa Fernández Erases a Portion the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence With Blue Paint

Topical Except with more Toxic Orange Patriarchy. Originally shared by Sci-fi Covers An Earth Gone Mad by Roger Dee, 1954. Ace Double D-84. Cover art by Ed Valigursky. http://bit.ly/2xpLN51 #scifi #sciencefiction #EdValigursky #bookcover #1950s

"Tinkling, Spangling Boogie" Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette Playing Boogie Woogie With Fats Domino https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/25/playing-boogie-woogie-fats-domino/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/25/playing-boogie-woogie-fats-domino/

Kanoodling via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by Chicago Tribune Here's the best ramen in Chicago — and you'll probably never try it Despite an abundance of new shops, Chicago still doesn't rank as much of a ramen town. Sure, we have a handful of perfectly fine options, but few measure up to such stateside hot spots as New York or Los Angeles, not to mention the entirety of Japan — the dish's birthplace. http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food-best-ramen-chicago-miso-mike-satinover-20170922-story.html

Bad Boys "I’ve had to ask myself, and I have been for some time, “To what extent in that book did I provide validation to meatheads?" "It’s no excuse, but when I arrived in the restaurant business in the early ’70s, it was the waning days of the sexual revolution. It was in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which was a largely gay, very sexually free, libertine-esque environment. I was coming out of a mostly women’s university where men were a tiny minority. I found myself in an environment where men and women spoke—gay men, gay women, straight men, straight women—we all spoke, people were speaking around me, mostly older, more experienced, in an incredibly frank way, usually self-deprecating way, about their sex lives. What they liked, what they didn’t like. How they fucked up. How they’re failures. I found this very liberating and refreshing that people could talk to themselves in this way. Talk to each other in this way." "It seemed honest and free of the kind of...

Rattling Chains Strive not to be the subject matter of a murder ballad, gentlemen... Originally shared by Timothy Street Here is an apropos tune for the times, with Halloween near. Don't back down, ladies. And men: aim to be gentlemen. (How are the guitar lessons progressing, kristienmarie thijssen ?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugXkgd_-84&list=PL8A05F9046E44E90C&index=48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugXkgd_-84&list=PL8A05F9046E44E90C&index=48

Wah Wah Waaaaah The Fat Man done left the building... A rewrite of Junker's Blues with Dave Bartholomew, considered by some to be amongst the first rock and roll records. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-rock-legend-fats-dominos-world-crawfish-cards-boogie-woogie-20160226 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIz1cPfTRW4

Bound For Happiness Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Scylla & Charybdis https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/10/24/sears-stop-selling-whirlpool-appliances/793517001/

Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark THIS: Why military leaders should not be leading civilian democratic govts By Col. Robert Killebrew, U.S. Army (Ret.), Army infantry and special forces officer for 30 years. He is a member of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. "A thousand years ago when I was about to begin my military career, a wise old retired Marine colonel, a veteran of the carnage at Tarawa, gave me some advice. Paraphrased here, he said: "'So you want to be a career soldier? Good for you. But remember that the longer you stay in uniform, the less you will really understand about the country you protect. Democracy is the antithesis of the military life; it’s chaotic, dishonest, disorganized, and at the same time glorious, exhilarating and free — which you are not. "'After a while, if you stay in, you’ll be tempted to say, “Look, you civilians, we’ve got a better way. We’re better organized. We’re patriotic, and we know what it is to sacrifice. Be lik...

Crummy Bust Originally shared by Chris Kim A We know at first you thought it was a joke, so we thought we'd bring this story back to reassure you, it's for real. Seriously, keep reading. #NotTheOnion http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/16/558147669/florida-man-awarded-37-500-after-cops-mistake-glazed-doughnut-crumbs-for-meth?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2049

Up The Down Staircase The Mechanics of History by Yoann Bourgeois. Performed at the Pantheon. http://golem13.fr/monuments-mouvement-pantheon/ Longer version, with music, here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=iH0dKSZMF2s via Anne-Marie Clark https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1892207867479793&id=157085567658707&refsrc=https://m.facebook.com/plugins/video.php&locale2=fr_FR&_rdr

#SacredSunday

Deo Vindice http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/67/ I don’t think that many folks have stopped to read the text inscribed on the base. TL;DR was thing long before the Internets. But it’s clear that this memorial was meant to send a message. An unrepentant message about the God given rightness of the Lost Cause. A message that, unfortunately, still has its adherents, even today. It's pretty well known that the winners write history, that the oppressed don't have the time and money to devote to grandiose memorials, and that beautifying the horrors of war is a recruitment tool. The existence of this monument, and its context of time and place, are a rather damning indictment of who won, and who lost, our Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, but it didn’t elevate them, in the South, or in the North. Compromises were made, to keep the peace. To preserve the status quo. The hard details would be worked out later. Those details, obvious to anyone payi...

Chay-Chay-Chain... Chain Of Fools... Originally shared by **** As Anne-Marie Clark​​​ points out, this analysis covers a single Trump lie. o.O The cascade of missteps that turned one White House error into a messy week https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/21/the-cascade-of-missteps-that-turned-one-white-house-error-into-a-messy-week/ Via Anne-Marie Clark​​​

Cooking Monster Originally shared by **** I may have to start watching Sesame Street again. ❤ Cookie Monster and his buddy Gonger run a food truck. In each segment, the pair get a call from a child who wants to order a meal from the pair's operation, but while preparing the recipe, the duo embark on a journey in their truck to find the main ingredient, from places like a “cranberry bog, a pasta factory, an avocado farm,” according to a statement from the show. The producer then shows Cookie Monster and Gonger how the ingredient is made before “sending the chefs home to get cooking.” The goal is to help kids learn where their food comes from, and hopefully in the process, promote healthier eating habits. http://www.myrecipes.com/syndication/sesame-street-cookie-monster-cooking-show?XID=mr_socialflow_googleplus&utm_campaign=myrecipes&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_medium=social

Southern Chinese Cuisine American Southern Chinese. If you ain't been, you oughta go. “A woman from Hong Kong moves to Missouri, graduates with a journalism degree, ends up writing at a newspaper in southwest Virginia, meets a local boy who becomes the love of her life, opens a barbecue restaurant with him, adds Chinese food to the menu because there’s actually a demand for it — and behold, the Velveeta cheese egg roll is born!” http://www.richmond.com/life/bill-lohmann/cuz-s-southern-chinese-cuisine-from-tazewell-county-featured-in/article_bc0a9368-22ab-5b49-92ad-5cf31e660c8a.html

Extra Value Meal via Ray Radlein Originally shared by Rob Donoghue Burger King did an anti-bullying PSA and it's really amazing, and then it gets more amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e8fcpYX5us

All You Got To Do Is... Question Everything. via Kam-Yung Soh https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk

Dialing For Dollars Originally shared by **** Now we have to be absolutely clear here, there is no evidence or proof that this phone call was made by Donald Trump or someone close to him. But, it's worth noting that the call bears a striking resemblance to the ones President Trump used to make to gossip columnists under the guise of being his own spokesman, sometimes named John Barron and other times named John Miller. https://www.gq.com/story/trump-forbes-list-call?mbid=social_facebook

Originally shared by lynn paden the internet learns all of jackie chan's secrets. lucky internet. https://youtu.be/g7H7XsPCcyQ

Posing P-Hacking, or Fake It Until You Make It... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/when-the-revolution-came-for-amy-cuddy.html

The Role Of End Users Crash Test Dummies. Not just a band. Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) The Internet of Things and death by a thousand cuts I am writing this column in August, and have no doubt that the bill will have gone nowhere by the time you read it in October or later. If hearings are held, they won't matter. The bill won't have been voted on by any committee, and it won't be on any legislative calendar. The odds of this bill becoming law are zero. And that's not just because of current politics -- I'd be equally pessimistic under the Obama administration. Markets, as we've repeatedly learned over the past century, are terrible mechanisms for improving the safety of products and services. It was true for automobile, food, restaurant, airplane, fire, and financial-instrument safety. The reasons are complicated, but basically, sellers don't compete on safety features because buyers can't efficiently differentiate products based on safety...

Finally! 20 Years In The Making! “CSS started as something very simple." The continuing saga of Web Standards that aren't... https://alistapart.com/article/the-story-of-css-grid-from-its-creators

Hot LZ Lookyloo (Exclusion) Zone Originally shared by Rugger Ducky Sure, you are curious and want to see, but you and your drone are endangering everyone . Seriously folks, stop with this. It is not ok, it is illegal, unsafe for other aircraft (know what would happen when your drone gets sucked into the engine of a plane low dropping fire retardant?) Keep your toys at home and let the grownups work to stop the fires. http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Drone-halts-air-operations-Bear-Fire-Santa-Cruz-12288170.php

St. Marks Is Dead And I Don't Feel Too Good Myself... Gen X Women, waiting for the uptick in the U curve of happiness. http://www.oprah.com/sp/new-midlife-crisis.html

Taco Terrorism! Haute Cuisine Hate Crime! "Count on Portland to weaponise food carts" --- Edward Morbius Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark Meanwhile in Portland, food cart go BOOM. "PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two food carts and 10 cars were destroyed by a fire and explosion on SW 1st and Columbia shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday."... "Portland Fire and Rescue said the explosions were most likely car tires and aerosol cans. Propane tanks may have also exploded. "Two food carts, Lai Thai and The Greek Gods Gyro, were destroyed and 10 cars parked behind the carts were also damaged. A tree was also completely burned. Witnesses said strong wind carried the fire toward the parking lot. ..."The smoke and flames were visible over the top of tall downtown buildings." Video aerial view of one of the explosions: https://twitter.com/LincolnGraves/status/920805582256222208 http://koin.com/2017/10/18/downtown-food-cart-on-fire-after-explosion/#ampshare=http...

Last Words https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview via Eric Hansen Originally shared by ****

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Going To The Mattresses Originally shared by Alex Scrivener On the secret Affiliate Marketing wars to sell you mattresses. https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars

*69 Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) Anyone can find out where you are pretty easily You may remember that last year, Verizon (which owns Oath, which owns TechCrunch) was punished by the FCC for injecting information into its subscribers’ traffic that allowed them to be tracked without their consent. That practice appears to be alive and well despite being disallowed in a ruling last March: companies appear to be able to request your number, location, and other details from your mobile provider quite easily. Philip Neustrom, co-founder of Shotwell Labs, found a pair of websites which, if visited from a mobile data connection, report back in no time with numerous details: full name, billing zip code, current location (as inferred from cell tower data), and more. https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/15/mobile-phone-companies-appear-to-be-providing-your-number-and-location-to-anyone-who-pays/

Spitting Image Originally shared by Will Shetterly https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/case-spitting-legionnaire.html

Needing Everything, And Nothing Originally shared by Damn interesting http://brianfies.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-fire-story-complete.html

Bike Toss http://www.velonews.com/2017/10/feature/inside-slipstreams-brush-with-death_450279/

Stand By Your Man Or read the fine print, first. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/10/16/dave-ratner-posed-for-photo-with-trump-now-facing-boycott/dvovCqgtAw1QF9wTxvlqVN/story.html

Every Effing Week

Small c Character "I do not think it means what you think it means." https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/13/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-october-15-through-october-21-2017-0 https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/13/president-donald-j-trump-proclaims-october-15-through-october-21-2017-0

Marked Cards Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Details about the Estonian ID vulnerability now out. "A crippling flaw in a widely used code library has fatally undermined the security of millions of encryption keys used in some of the highest-stakes settings, including national identity cards, software- and application-signing, and trusted platform modules protecting government and corporate computers. The weakness allows attackers to calculate the private portion of any vulnerable key using nothing more than the corresponding public portion. Hackers can then use the private key to impersonate key owners, decrypt sensitive data, sneak malicious code into digitally signed software, and bypass protections that prevent accessing or tampering with stolen PCs. The five-year-old flaw is also troubling because it's located in code that complies with two internationally recognized security certification standards that are binding on many governments, contractors, and companies around...

ROCA Is The New KRACK Tester here: https://github.com/crocs-muni/roca via Kam-Yung Soh Originally shared by Jan Wildeboer This is a helluva lot more frightening than #KRACK. RSA keys can be factorised fast when they come from Infineon chips and are generated by their library. OUCH! Disclosure of Infineon RSA vulnerability (ROCA) https://roca.crocs.fi.muni.cz . Tester for vuln. keys. TPM,Bitlocker,eID,GitHub SSH,PGP...impacted "A newly discovered vulnerability in generation of RSA keys used by a software library adopted in cryptographic smartcards, security tokens and other secure hardware chips manufactured by Infineon Technologies AG allows for a practical factorization attack, in which the attacker computes the private part of an RSA key. The attack is feasible for commonly used key lengths, including 1024 and 2048 bits, and affects chips manufactured as early as 2012, that are now commonplace. " UPDATE The workaround is to generate the public/private key with known goo...

WPA2 KRACK Whee. https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/10/15/wpa2-broken-krack-now/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/severe-flaw-in-wpa2-protocol-leaves-wi-fi-traffic-open-to-eavesdropping/ https://kryptera.se/assets/uploads/2017/10/usenix2016-wifi.pdf https://www.alexhudson.com/2017/10/15/wpa2-broken-krack-now/

Originally shared by Will Shetterly More than the title suggests. Read it. http://www.gregpalast.com/went-school-vegas-shooter/

Retcon RED via Ray Radlein Originally shared by Peter da Silva http://www.earthlymission.com/russia-wants-bulgarians-to-stop-painting-soviet-monuments-to-look-like-american-superheroes/

Super Villain Origin Story https://twitter.com/RealRBHJr/status/918915719210897408

Chip In Wants to keep riders on short leash... http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/microchips-the-next-step-in-anti-doping-fight-argues-olympians-chief

Dad Rock https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2017/oct/15/rebus-and-roll-ian-rankin-new-gig-as-a-dad-rock-singer

Ophelia Boards on the window, Mail by the door, What would anybody leave so quickly for? Ophelia, Where have you gone? The Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RjqcTsxx-8 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/hurricane-ophelia-stuns-meteorologists-heads-for-ireland.html

Full Size Or GTFO Just like Milky Way bars... via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by Brown-Eyed Girl

Originally shared by Noah Friedman No doubt the meal turned out SCRUMptious. https://steemit.com/food/@walden/our-shitty-restaurant-my-experience-with-agile-bureaucracy-and-unnecessary-complication

PRIDE Feeling it. Showing it. With Bubbles and Rainbows...

No Rat Rods Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette The Cars Of Rick And Morty, Scrutinized https://jalopnik.com/the-cars-of-rick-and-morty-scrutinized-1819451177 https://jalopnik.com/the-cars-of-rick-and-morty-scrutinized-1819451177

BUFF Off the grid. via Scout Paget Originally shared by O' Pavlo B52 cemetery

The Shapes Of Things To Come Although mathematics is not my strong suit, I've always loved words. Their shapes, as well as their meanings. Learning how to make those shapes, by hand, with mechanical devices, or with computers, has occupied quite a bit of my time. Originally shared by Robert Rambusch They can't all be adorable cat pictures ... http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html

Gríma Wormtongue Originally shared by The New Yorker "The reason Stephen Miller is so dangerous? He’s clearly got a vision. He knows about narrative, about messaging. He’s figuring this out." http://nyer.cm/dM1qL3w

Notes From The Field Bob Cringely checks in... http://www.cringely.com/2017/10/13/i-have-no-boils/

Values Voters Summit Arriving at the event, Trump said it was great “to be among friends” as he declared: “We are returning moral clarity to our view of the world.” “I am honoured and thrilled to be the first sitting president to address this gathering of friends, so many friends,” Trump explained. He told the cheering crowds: “To protect religious liberty, including protecting groups like this one, I signed a new executive action in a beautiful ceremony in the White House on our national day of prayer. To prevent the horrendous Johnson Amendment interfering with your First Amendment rights." “We will not allow government workers to censor sermons or target our pastors, our ministers, our rabbis. These are the people we want to hear from and they’re not going to be silenced any longer.” Quotes from this article: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/10/13/donald-trump-pledges-to-hate-group-that-homophobes-will-no-longer-be-silenced/ via Cara Evangelista http://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557...

Regret Minimization Framework Originally shared by Norman Spinrad https://www.facebook.com/ WHY THE EBOOK EDITION OF THE PEOPLE'S POLICE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE WHY THE EBOOK EDITION OF THE PEOPLE'S POLICE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE This weird situation takes some explaining. Tor, for whatever reason, priced their ebook edition of THE PEOPLE'S POLICE at about $15, way too expensive, not merely in my opinion and that of some complaining would-be buyers, but as a business move, when Amazon cut the $28 cover price of the hardcover to $15.52. Who but someone who hated ink and paper would pay the same price for an ebook instead of for a hardcover? And since a trade paperback would have to have roughly the same price as what Amazon sold the hardcover for, who at all in their right mind would buy a paperback for the same price as a hardcover? So until all the hardcovers left are gone, neither Tor, nor another publisher, nor me self-publishing, can publish a trade paperback, th...

Mother's Little Helper The Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGYSHy1jQs Originally shared by Irina T. William Brockedon , an English painter, writer and inventor was born #onthisday 13 October 1787. "His introduction of the compressed tablet was one of the most far-reaching developments in the history of drug manufacture, and nothing has done more to promote the growth of the industry. It is curious that this revolution in the preparation and supply of drugs was inspired by one outside the trade and who is better known for his activities in other fields. […] On December 8, 1843. Brockedon was granted English Patent No. 9977, for " Shaping Pills, Lozenges and Black Lead by Pressure in Dies. " In 1844 the Pharmaceutical Journal announced: We have received a specimen of bi-carbonate of potash com- pressed into the form of a pill by a process invented by Mr. Brockedon, and for which he has taken out a patent. We understand the process is appiicable to the...

Mark Of The Times Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

Born Under A Bad Sign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py37G9qsfY

@Lysistrata via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by Dave Pacheco You don't want to go on Twitter today: it's #WomenBoycottTwitter day (because of Rose McGowan's suspension), and all that's left is hundreds of thousands of men trying to mansplain everything and THERE'S NO WOMEN TO MANSPLAIN TO AND OH GOD MEN MANSPLAINING TO OTHER MEN IT'S UNNATURAL DON'T YOU SEE MEN NEED A MANSPLAINING OUTLET AND WOMEN ARE THE INLET I'VE DRAWN A DIAGRAM SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT BETTER PLEASE HELP

Nice Work If You Can Get It "Congress spends about $800,000 a year on its opening prayers, including Chaplain Conroy's annual salary of $172,000, as well as a salary and office for the Senate chaplain. Conroy's sole duty, Barker points out, is to "offer a prayer at the commencement of each day's sitting on the House"—roughly 135 times per year—a duty that Conroy delegates to a guest chaplain approximately 40 percent of the time. For 2011, FFRF calculates that Conroy earned $1,659 per prayer." via James Karaganis https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/30586-court-oks-congressional-exclusion-of-atheists-ffrf-calls-it-wake-up-call

Por Siempre http://www.gocomics.com/baldo/2017/10/12

The Man With The Plan Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

On Your Way Down Allen Toussaint and the Meters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV-bFdf6yu8 Originally shared by Darran Hughes Franz Reichelt (1879 – 4 February 1912), also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. Reichelt had become fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft. Initial experiments conducted with dummies dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building had been successful, but he was unable to replicate those early successes with any of his subsequent designs. Believing that the lack of a suitably high test platform was partially to blame for his failures, Reichelt repeatedly petitioned the Parisian Prefecture of ...

Thelonious Monk Centennial Born October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. http://bostonreview.net/saul-off-minor Thelonious Monk Live In Berlin 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGbLRaaqrCc

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Loyalty "Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify. Because the players are always changing, the team could move to another city…you’re actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it. You’re standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they’ll boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt, they hate him now! Boo! Different shirt! Boo…" - - - Jerry Seinfeld https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/10/10/roger-goodell-national-anthem-letter-nfl-owners

The Kibosh Redux https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-nbc-killed-ronan-farrows-weinstein-expose https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-nbc-killed-ronan-farrows-weinstein-expose

Isn't It Ironic? http://www.wral.com/the-appeal-author-grisham-seeks-approval-to-remove-chapel-hill-cottages/17007227/

The Twilight Of The House Of Mouse https://www.steynonline.com/7638/the-house-of-mouse Originally shared by David McKeever Wildfires turned the sky over Disneyland orange in Anaheim, California

Sticking Point Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "The inventor of the Band-Aid, who was born on this day [October 10] in 1892, originally came up with the idea to help his wife, Josephine Knight Dickson. It made his career. According to the account traditionally given of this story, Josephine Knight Dixon was sort of accident-prone, or at least unfamiliar with her new kitchen. She kept getting small cuts and burns on her hands–and the options available to her for treating these wounds weren’t great, writes Margaret Gurowitz, Johnson & Johnson’s chief historian." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/get-stuck-band-aid-history-180965157/

Running (Out) Bond AKA Stretcher (Out) Bond Originally shared by giacomo bencistà Close enough Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/NotMyJob/comments/75f6cn/close_enough/

Can You Hear Me, Now? "No one can do field calculations in the near field and survive to tell..." "If you don’t have a real EMC lab, then everything is an EMC lab..." "It is completely normal to get negative EMC results on the first date..." via Kam-Yung Soh https://helentronica.com/2017/07/23/emc-come-and-see/

Go Fast, Turn Left Still doing it... https://plus.google.com/+DrewMcCarthy/posts/31VcL7SbJy2 http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/thatsracin/article176326626.html

Catalyst I've used a lot of West System products over the years. Never cheap, but they have always performed well. And West System technical bulletins have taught me more than a little about boats and composites. It was always apparent that the Gougeon Brothers "ate their own dog food" and had lasting passion for boats and sailing. It showed. http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2017/08/meade_gougeon_michigan_sailing.html

Find Ray Charles Originally shared by lynn paden compliments of the season....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZTtsKgJDdA&feature=share

Oh Originally shared by David “not B” A This nut truck needs truck nuts.

Not Too Shabby "He looks like a flood victim," Falk once said of his character. "You feel sorry for him. He appears to be seeing nothing, but he's seeing everything." Originally shared by David “not B” A Hey, Happy Columbo Day, all you United Statesians!

The Kibosh Originally shared by Susan Jahn SNAP https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-york-times/

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Originally shared by John Jainschigg Southern-Fried Chicken This here, poorly-cropped, casual photo is what happens when you make old-school, cornstarch-dredged, batter-dipped Southern-Fried Chicken and show it to a hungry child. The child grabs several pieces, ruining the composition, and eats them, noisily proclaiming " Ah, feicheng, feicheng haochu, wode Baba " (or at least, this is what my child says -- other kids may say stuff like "It's crispy like fried, but it ain't greasy like fried!") Except it is greasy, and indeed, grease is an irreducible part of its appeal. IMHO, they should replace all those statues of Robert E. Lee with statues commemorating great Southern cooking: fried chicken, hominy, hush puppies, greens, Johnny cakes, pecan pie, barbecue in all its huge variety, the list goes on and on and includes at least 15 stand-alone regional cuisines.

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Come Together Right now. Over me. When Stylebook Worlds Collide. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-hey-ap-stylebook-hello-hello-anybody-there-20171007-story.html

Humans Of New York Enki Bilal, Immortal, 2004

Get The Lead Out In comparison, here's an overview of the current regulations regarding suspected lead based paint: http://www.ncrec.gov/Pdfs/bicar/LeadBasedPaintReq.pdf Ain't no magic bullet. Just ask the military. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/10/527648768/lead-dust-from-firearms-can-pose-a-silent-health-risk Originally shared by Damn interesting http://projects.seattletimes.com/2014/loaded-with-lead/1/

“Machine Learning Is Like Money Laundering For Bias” Maciej Ceglowski quote from Noah Friedman Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks debunks AI hype This article is so fantastic that I want to sit and annotate it with you. Since I can't, we'll have to settle for a few notes. First of all, ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOOST SWARTE!!! Second of all, CLARKE'S LAWS!!! Everyone needs to know them, rather than just the last one. Now that I got that out of the way, note this section: This is a problem I regularly encounter when trying to debate with people about artificial general intelligence, or AGI—the idea that we will build autonomous agents that operate much like beings in the world. I am told that I do not understand how powerful AGI will be. That is not an argument. We have no idea whether it can even exist. I would like it to exist—this has always been my own motivation for working in robotics and AI. But modern-day AGI research is not doing well at ...

The Joys Of Other People's Money Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.thenation.com/article/how-americas-biggest-bank-paid-its-fine-for-the-2008-mortgage-crisis-with-phony-mortgages/

Small-d Democrat I rarely say this, but Read The Comments on this article. Trust me. My fountain pen leaks, My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks. Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed. If it weren't so expensive I'd wish I were dead, Signed Unhappy... Unhappy, unhappy, You have no complaint. You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't. So listen up buster, and listen up good. Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood. John Prine-Dear Abby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ccC4aULow https://isthmus.com/opinion/tell-all/college-son-student-antifa-supporting-extremist/

Social Engineering Bell Labs Cardiac Computer Manual 1969 #ThrowbackThursday

Woman Of Action "That's what I say to the women's organisations now; if you're still busy talking about the differences you are not going to move forward, stop the barriers in your own mind first. I think less thinking is often the best." Originally shared by Irina T. 100 Women: Meet Susi Pudjiastuti, the Indonesian minister blowing up boats http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41438279

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Stay Giant "Look, he's left you a little present...there's probably more if you look..." Brawny commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxOGbovjpAw https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-roll-puerto-rico-n807216

Avenging Angels Originally shared by The past is a foreign country Meredith College students in the Ukulele Club are seen sitting on a bed together. 1919 Source: State Archives of North Carolina