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Originally shared by james kalin my take on pets no smell no hair everywhere no destroyed furniture no thousands spent on kidneys or hips or swallowed rubber bands what i did on my mexican vacation https://youtu.be/Izf16mgbqEk

Respects To The Queen Buckingham Palace Guard plays a tribute to Aretha Franklin. https://twitter.com/chrisbottanhl/status/1035491166077235201

Pockets I'm partial to Carhartt Carpenter Bib Overalls with the integral apron. By which you can tell that I'm fully in favor of functional pockets. To the point where it can sometimes take a minute or two to ransack all of them in search of that One Fiddly Bit of hardware. Fashion might be a tool of the patriarchy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/womens-pockets-size-jeans-fashion

The Chromatic Queen Not Brand Ecch. http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/may02/severin.shtml Originally shared by Tim O'Brien Marie Severin 1929-2018

"Sweeping The Special Chimney" "It’s TV that kills your sex life": people who own TV sets are 6 per cent less likely in any given week to “sweep the special chimney”. https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1034756686479847424 "The BBC is said to be bracing itself for complaints over a new drama about a middle-aged couple whose sex life has stagnated like an old pond and become less exciting than a trip to the council tip (although, if you must know, I find trips to the tip to be quite satisfying. It’s a toss-up, to be honest)." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carol-midgley-ill-tell-you-whats-wrong-with-midlife-sex-the-telly-zqf26dfht In my time here on the planet, I have: owned a TV set, swept chimneys, and been to the dump. I would not have expected those things to be connected with sex, even as a rhetorical device. We are truly living in the future.

The World's Most Popular Drug Originally shared by John Wehrle On Wednesday, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement that "if a state law purports to require food labeling to include a false or misleading statement, the FDA may decide to step in." He added that a large body of research found little evidence that coffee causes cancer and instead suggested that it might reduce the risk of some cancers: "Strong and consistent evidence shows that in healthy adults moderate coffee consumption is not associated with an increased risk of major chronic diseases, such as cancer, or premature death, and some evidence suggests that coffee consumption may decrease the risk of certain cancers." https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/643246149/coffee-does-not-merit-cancer-warning-label-ordered-in-california-fda-says

Diva https://pagesix.com/2018/08/29/outfit-change-for-aretha-franklin-on-second-day-of-public-viewing/

The Luckiest Person Who Ever Lived Originally shared by Randy Culler Spider Robinson's star shines in Worldcon's sci-fi universe Hugo- and Nebula-winning author is guest of 76th World Science Fiction Convention Being a guest of honour at Worldcon is rather like a lifetime achievement award. It requires more than 20 years of contributions to the science fiction or fantasy genres. (Robinson’s fantasy author counterpart in this honour is Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.) https://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/news/spider-robinson-s-star-shines-in-worldcon-s-sci-fi-universe-1.23403589

Tails Out It's also worth mentioning that tape drive manufacturers are notorious for changing specs and standards to enforce vendor lock in, and forced upgrades. Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "Studies show [PDF] that the amount of data being recorded is increasing at 30 to 40 percent per year. At the same time, the capacity of modern hard drives, which are used to store most of this, is increasing at less than half that rate. Fortunately, much of this information doesn’t need to be accessed instantly. And for such things, magnetic tape is the perfect solution. Seriously? Tape? The very idea may evoke images of reels rotating fitfully next to a bulky mainframe in an old movie like Desk Set or Dr. Strangelove. So, a quick reality check: Tape has never gone away! Indeed, much of the world’s data is still kept on tape, including data for basic science, such as particle physics and radio astronomy, human heritage and national archives, major motion pictures, banking, insurance...

The Struggle Is Real Originally shared by Al Tlön

Dribbles I worked more than a few bike races with Brian Drebber and Gypsy (Fred Patton), back in the day. He was a pro at the event. And a lot of fun. He'll be missed. https://www.velonews.com/2018/08/news/cycling-community-mourns-longtime-announcer-brian-drebber_477062

You And Me Both, Brother Originally shared by Richard Stevens Tonight's comic hates the algorithm. http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/617/ http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/617/

A Class Act Elsewhere, I said that McCain was a class act. This is what I meant. He comported himself well, and wore his privilege easily. I disagreed with nearly every policy decision he ever made, and some were scandalously awful and self-serving. Politicians are frequently, often, dependably, Creatures of Focused Expediency, and not Good People, or Farsighted Leaders. But he was loved by his family and his supporters, and often respected by his opponents. That ain't nothing. https://maddogmedia.com/2018/08/26/john-mccain-goes-west/

Playing Gotcha More than not, McCain was a class act. Originally shared by Pat Kight With the passing of John McCain, a lot is being said and written. This, so far, is one of my favorite pieces: https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-ferguson/reagan-mccain-and-sam-mcgee

Whip It More proof that Florida isn't part of the South. Because otherwise, they'd have changed the name to Duke's. http://www.suwanneedemocrat.com/news/nomoremayo-north-florida-town-changes-name-to-miracle-whip/article_fc095c68-a898-11e8-aeaa-a37baf7c18d3.html

Wingtip Vortices Or Donuts. Mmmmmm. Donuts. Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark "757 'blowing rings' on its way down to 10R at PDX. Of all the mornings I have shot at PDX, this one was the most amazing. A series of some of my best pics came from a one hour period of time. I chased the exact atmospheric conditions for half a decade before finally getting them." ~ Tyler Rogoway https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1031617457268486144

Police Riot "My aim is to show that when the police went away, the "problem" went away; when the police moved to thwart the demonstrators' attempts to protest the war or sleep in the park, the "problem" developed acutely. What happened in Chicago during the last week of August 1968 was not a police riot. The result was chaos, but the cause was a premeditated disposition to subdue protest by whatever means necessary--a planned offensive." https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-siege-of-68/Content?oid=872705 Originally shared by Semicentenary Project

Food Pyramid I approve of both the thoughtfulness, and the crankiness, of this post about nutrition. Originally shared by Susan Jahn https://angry-chef.com/blog/heart-of-the-problem

Panam Transpac http://www.clipperflyingboats.com/transpacific-airline-service Originally shared by Pulp Covers Pan American Spans The Pacific https://buff.ly/2o8PNnj

Cannery Row Originally shared by Kevin Clarke (ksclarke) A throwback food industry’s toughest order: Self-preservation https://wapo.st/2KMoDM4

He's A Maniac "He's a maniac, maniac that's for sure He will kill your cat and nail him to the door." #caturday Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh - This was accidentally included on a tape of Sembello's songs his wife sent to Paramount for consideration in Flashdance . The studio loved it and used it in the movie. - The dance scenes in the video (and the movie), were performed by body double Marine Jahan. It was a well-kept secret that Jennifer Beals did not dance in the movie. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=806

Temple Burn Originally shared by Trey Ratcliff This is the night of the Temple Burn. The temple is a special place where people take keepsakes from loved ones that have died or they simply go write on the wood inside... they write things they would never say in the real world. The burning of it is somewhat of a symbol of letting that thing go. If you're an emotional, sensitive person, you really can't hang out in there too long. You might just look at 1/3000 scrawlings that says something like, "Nobody loves me." and then, another person, underneath, will write, "That's not true, I do." Stuff like that.. anyway, this year I'm taking a photo of my dad holding my son Ethan. I'll write something. I'm not sure what yet. #BurningMan

Originally shared by Randy Culler Little Eva - The Loco-Motion commentary from Frank Beacham Just as success as a musician most often depends on possessing abundant talent and a great capacity for hard work, it also can require being in the right place at the right time. This was certainly true for the diminutive, 17-year-old singer named Eva Narcissus Boyd, who scored her first and only #1 hit on this day in 1962 — 56 years ago — with "The Loco-Motion." Eva Boyd was newly arrived in New York City from her native North Carolina and looking for work when a neighbor in Brooklyn pointed her toward the job that would end up changing her life — working as a nanny for a young, professional Manhattan couple. It just so happened that the couple looking for a new babysitter were Gerry Goffin and Carole King, future members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame then working for the legendary, Don Kirshner, as salaried songwriters at Aldon Music. In the early 1960s, Goffin and King were bus...

Apex Aphorist Originally shared by Ray Radlein " Was there a particular moment where it first dawned on you that Dril was a big deal? "I would have to say that when "Dog the Bounty Hunter" took the time out of his schedule to personally block my account, time he could have spent yelling at his son or whatever, is when I knew the shit had become serious" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kymv8/we-interviewed-the-guy-behind-dril-the-undisputed-king-of-twitter?utm_campaign=sharebutton

You Can't Always Get What You Want Appliances as Apps. Originally shared by Robert Rambusch William Perry approved this message As I’ve begun to eye replacements, I’ve noticed that if I want certain features, such as French doors that won’t block my small kitchen, I must also have an appliance that is Internet-ready, in case I wish to email rather than speak to the refrigerator in person. Nor can I decide that I’d like to trade higher electricity bills for a longer life span; the government has already made that decision for me. Frustratingly, it’s not even clear that this is good for the environment, because it takes quite a lot of energy and materials to manufacture the appliances we’re regularly throwing away. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/to-a-refrigerator-dying-young/2018/08/21/7d542068-a561-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/to-a-refrigerator-dying-young/2018/08/21/7d542068-a561-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

Fatto Con Le Mani Frame-building icon Dario Pegoretti passes away at age 62. https://www.velonews.com/2018/08/news/frame-building-icon-pegoretti-passes-away-at-age-62_476183 https://www.velopress.com/pegoretti/

Flipping Out A powerful and concise summation of some important structural flaws in our Criminal Justice system that many folks are blissfully unaware of. https://twitter.com/popehat/status/1032632328130945024 Cara Evangelista might be interested to note that the thread veers into debate about "double spaces" somewhere along the way. Soon we'll be fighting about whether Nazis are worse than double spaces.

You Might Be A Real Audio Engineer If... I have done more of these than not... https://www.prosoundweb.com/topics/studio/youre_not_a_real_audio_engineer_until_youve/

The Tall Guy Originally shared by Kymberlyn Reed #morethan28days #blacknerdstuff From the CNN website: Alien was sold with the strap line "In space no one can hear you scream." Fittingly the actor in the suit, Bolaiji Badejo, was largely silent in his part in one of the 20th century's most celebrated films. https://alienseries.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/the-life-of-bolaji-badejo-2/

Clue Who Killed The Neighborhood? http://catandgirl.com/boddy-heights/ I've Never Killed A Neighborhood. But I Have Definitely Tore Up Some Property Values. With The Various Means Of Transportation In Stages Of Repair, The Tool Shed With Emanations And Detritus, And The Loud Unholy Music At All Hours.

The Absurdity Of Natural Law https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/23/the-priesthood-of-the-big-crazy/

In The Zone Originally shared by Andres Soolo If you liked First Amendment Zones developed under Bush ][, you might also like Second Amendment Zones: A graduate assistant at the University of Utah has been reassigned from teaching a class this semester after handing out a syllabus that said bringing a concealed carry gun to class “is absurd, antisocial, and frightening behavior” and that any of her students who have one — even if permitted — would be forced to stand in a “3x3 taped square” in the back of the classroom. “This zone also does not include a desk, because desks are reserved for students who respect the personal and psychological safety of their classmates and instructor,” reads a copy of the course outline. Chris Nelson, the U.’s spokesman, said the one-paragraph “weapons policy” was removed from the online curriculum Tuesday, one day after fall classes started, and students were “alerted to the error.” The graduate assistant, too, has apologized, received additional train...

We Are DEVO Originally shared by Al Tlön "They titled their third album Freedom of Choice and again, literary inspiration would play a large part. Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is peppered with all types of poems and lyrical verses which satirized Dale Carnegie-type of insincere generalities. Casale thought these were genius, and wrote a song he called “Whip It” based on Pynchon’s work. It was this “bizarre, unprompted, yet brilliantly constructed” song which brought their tongue-in-cheek humour and “frightening insights” to the mainstream." https://www.cranbrooktownsman.com/opinion/mikes-booknotes-how-literature-and-tragedy-shaped-one-of-the-80s-most-influential-bands/

Originally shared by Edward Morbius Federal officers establish unconstitutional checkpoints on road to Burning Man These are not the illegal aliens you are looking for. I see an opportunity for ... small-package drone delivery. https://boingboing.net/2018/08/22/mobile-justice.html https://boingboing.net/2018/08/22/mobile-justice.html

New and Improved Originally shared by Jeffrey Zeldman Gmail rolls out a new design that’s both harder to use and uglier. Mystery navigation, invisible borders (the wrong lessons from iOS)—every visual change that slightly impedes usability is here. But, hey, cartoonishly rounded corners! (Welcome back, 2004.)

GIANT BLONDE ALIENS Originally shared by ted kelly There are layers upon layers of multi dimensional weirdness to this story. Major, prize winning newspaper endorses alien abductee over incumbent ! GOP candidate champions for interests of working class people. Honest politician has a chance of winning over corrupt well connected one. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-herald-endorses-bettina-rodriguez-aguilera-who-claimed-alien-abduction-10647753

"War Is A Racket" The American Liberty League hoped to overpower the feeble peacetime military and reconstitute the government as a more economical fascist dictatorship. Originally shared by Damn interesting On this day in 1934 a shadowy cabal asked a highly decorated Marine major general to lead a coup against the US government https://www.damninteresting.com/the-revenge-of-the-fighting-quaker/

What's For Lunch? It ain't the BBQ. It's the Hot Dogs, and Those Buttered, Toasted Buns. Mmmm. And Cheerwine in a bottle. Since 1910. https://www.chowhound.com/post/js-pulliam-bbq-winston-salemnc-hot-dogs-728450

Crocodile Tears The difficulties of Jawsomeness. Originally shared by Assia Alexandrova #crocproblems no jazz, no relay, no space travel, no flambé, no love :'-( https://www.boredpanda.com/crocodile-life-animals-illustrations-keigo-japan/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=BPFacebook

Banned First, Yuengling, then Waffle House, now Nathan's? At least, there's still Ben's Chili Bowl. https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-14/hot-dog-honcho-to-host-trump-campaign-fundraiser-in-the-hamptons

Did Everyone Pay Their Dues? "No one can be an activist at 50, you’d have to have your head examined." “I shouldn’t have said that,” he laughs, adding: “I would do it all over again." "Now the demonstrations are much larger but the question will be can one develop the resources to make political change? I think certainly the spirit is there.” The Rolling Stones-Street Fightin' Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUO8ScYVeDo In 1979, Dave Marsh wrote that it was the keynote of Beggars Banquet, "with its teasing admonition to do something and its refusal to admit that doing it will make any difference; as usual, the Stones were more correct, if also more faithless, philosophers than any of their peers." Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/aug/19/the-whole-world-is-watching-chicago-police-riot-vietnam-war-regan

Home For Her #sacredsunday "She just had it from the beginning, from Day One. She was just special. Back in the day it was just accepted for you to be a gospel singer and switch over to R&B and blues or whatever. But Aretha, I don’t care: Right today, whatever song I hear her singing, I still hear her gospel in it. You can’t lose that; that was home for her." Mavis and Re sing "Oh Happy Day": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdCWR-XpGxI http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-mavis-staples-aretha-franklin-20180817-story.html

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #sacredsunday “If you want to know the truth,” her father once said, “Aretha has never left the church. If you have the ability to feel, and you have the ability to hear, you know that Aretha is still a gospel singer.” https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/august-web-only/aretha-franklin-died-tribute.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUujg0BTIjk

Amazing Grace #sacredsunday Amanda Petrusich: "I’m not being melodramatic—we are listening to the wildest embodiment of a divine signal. She receives it and she broadcasts it. “Singing” can’t possibly be the right word for this sort of channelling." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/aretha-franklin-is-as-immortal-as-can-be https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SlTQJzZwBSY

Superhero Origin Story By Wolves. Born In A Honky Tonk.

Steampunk Cephalopod Enemy to Oxidation and Corrosion.

Hitchiker

Originally shared by K.B. Burnfield Mastodon Twitter has been shooting itself in the feet over and over again lately and a lot of people are walking away. I’m not quite to that point but I’m looking at where other people are going and one of them is Mastodon. I signed up and did a quick search for some info on it and a mobile app recommendation. What I found was this article: _*”What I wish I knew before joining Mastodon - Where I attempt to explain Mastodon through Harry Potter gifs”*_ I made it about half way through and basically gave up. The instances thing and this line : ”Since each user is tied to an instance, people can also steal your username and identity on another instance” threw me off. How can you hope to build a large scale social network for millions of people with stuff like this? Anyone tried Mastodon? Anyone understand it? https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b

Good People Originally shared by Kevin Clarke (ksclarke) The opposite of our current president. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/?utm_term=.08f85a6d7cf7

The Quicker Picker Uppers Originally shared by Irina T. 2018-08-17 https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/08/tong-wielding-trash-runners-fight-litter-in-shanghai/567547/

Jumbo Shrimp National Security Clearance Free Speech https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-former-intelligence-bosses-speak-out-in-favor-of-brennan/

Affirmative Action https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/us/politics/trump-cabinet-meetings.html

Originally shared by **** I led the bin Laden raid. Now I want my security clearance revoked, too. Dear Mr. President: Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the finest public servants I have ever known. Few Americans have done more to protect this country than John. He is a man of unparalleled integrity, whose honesty and character have never been in question, except by those who don’t know him. Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency. Like most Americans, I had hoped that when you became president, you would rise to the occasion and become the leader this great nation needs. A good leader tries to embody the best qualities of his or her organization. A good leader sets the example for others to follow. A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself. Your leader...

Food Challenges Originally shared by Susan Jahn https://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/key-ingredient/Content?oid=55711367

Respect "We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right." Originally shared by G.K. Nelson Respect.

Blame The Jesuits Originally shared by Will Shetterly It seems the original Nazis hated the abbreviation. https://forward.com/fast-forward/381885/the-surprising-connection-between-nazis-and-nachos/

Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better #Occupation https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-s-loyal-druze-move-open-revolt-1413204121

Persistence Of Vision Probably more incompetence than malice, but it's not good when the Pros from Dover can't get it right, either... https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/08/14/washington-post-continues-to-publish-falsehoods-about-medicare-for-all/

Originally shared by Ray Radlein ...[inarticulate sputtering] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/disney-takes-stand-overzealous-copyright-holders-1134645?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

And A Portrait Painter, Too http://www.dorothydunnett.co.uk/dupaintings.htm A lovely and formidably talented woman. I'll also note that she spent much time in the great libraries of the Continent, researching the historical characters and events of the time, in their original forms. In some cases, she contributed original research, as in King Hereafter. If you've not heard of her work, you're missing out. https://www.tor.com/2017/08/25/writing-epic-fantasy-the-historical-fiction-way-lessons-from-dorothy-dunnetts-the-game-of-kings/

Being Retconned Originally shared by Mudhooks https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351

Y, Oh, Y? I owned, rode (and even raced) one of these for a number of years, liked it quite a bit. When I started out riding, the joys (and perils) of Drillium were the thing. Interesting to see folks hacksawing, molding, and laying up stuff. IIRC, Trek was one of the few carbon composite manufacturers at that time with no rider weight limits, and extremely good warranty support. https://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=131739

From Double Butted Steel to Monocoque Composites https://www.slowtwitch.com/Tech/When_Craft_Gave_Way_to_Engineering_6964.html

Fundamental http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2018/8/12

Sign Of The Times https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article216447125.html

"Idlers Keep Out By Order" "Plot is for those who already know the world; narrative is for those who want to discover it.” "Keep Britain, White." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/books/vs-naipaul-appraisal.html

Emulation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery Sounds like the Dire Wraiths are acting up again. Somebody better call Rom: Spaceknight! Originally shared by Ray Radlein "If you buy the original Doom from Steam today, for example, it will run on your computer using free, open source software called DOSBox, which emulates the DOS operating system. The Retro-Cade, a device which legally licensed and resold games from developers like Capcom, uses emulation software RetroArch, designed to run illegal ROMs. Many of the official re-released LucasArts point-and-click adventure games that ran on the SCUMM engine, now use the fan made, free ScummVM engine. Cifaldi has presented evidence that suggests that even Nintendo itself has resold ROMs that were initially illegally uploaded to the internet, though Nintendo has denied this." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbped/nintendos-offensive-tragic-and-totally-legal-erasure-of-rom-sites?utm_campaign=sharebutton

Sixteen Tons When the Algorithm is The Man... in The Cloud. Originally shared by Edward Morbius Disorganised labour are dead meat ....“There’s something you need to know,” she said in a low voice, “and I don’t want you to forget it. When you’re writing code, you need to think of the drivers. Never forget that these are real people who have no benefits, who have to live in this city, who depend on us to write responsible code. Remember that.” I didn’t understand what she meant until several weeks later, when I overheard two other engineers in the cafeteria discussing driver bonuses—specifically, ways to manipulate bonuses so that drivers could be “tricked” into working longer hours. Laughing, they compared the drivers to animals: “You need to dangle the carrot right in front of their face.” Shortly thereafter, a wave of price cuts hit drivers in the Bay Area.... Author is Susan Fowler. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/silicon-valley-engineers-fear-they-created-a-monster https://w...

Fawlty Towers A Note to The Management. Oh, wait, the Internets didn't want Standards, or Management, or a Union, because Hackerz. Kind of like the failure of Hippie Communes, only with less beans and more wire. Originally shared by Edward Morbius I was DISTINCTLY TOLD, in the 1990s, that if we put computers into all the things it would make us all super-smart and super-sexy and super-kind and we would all live in houses made of translucent plastic and acid dance and rainforests and we would specifically NOT become a society of giant raging dumbass jerks selling fake nutritional supplements to Nazis. There were RECEIPTS. Money changed HANDS. I wish to complain to the MANAGEMENT. -- Nate Cull https://mastodon.social/@natecull/100523316195396259 https://mastodon.social/@natecull/100523316195396259

The Black Hole The new logo for Space Force, according to @StoneKettle: https://twitter.com/stonekettle/status/1027660592415498240 Tagline for the movie: "A Journey That Begins Where Everything Ends." Reviews for the movie: Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars out of 4, saying it "takes us all the way to the rim of space only to bog us down in a talky melodrama whipped up out of mad scientists and haunted houses." Neil deGrasse Tyson deemed the film to be the least scientifically accurate movie of all time. I saw the movie. It was many things, none of them particularly good. But I never thought it would be prophetic of the future, in this particular way.

"No, No He's Not Dead, He's Restin'!" Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? https://spideroak.com/articles/a-transparency-report-is-a-canary/ Originally shared by Andres Soolo Warrant canaries being an endangered species, it is to be expected that trophy hunters might be sniping at them for fun. https://boingboing.net/2018/08/06/spideroak-warrant-canary-to-be.html

Amaizeballs! Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/amaizeballs/567140/

Shaped Charges Originally shared by Damn interesting https://gizmodo.com/bag-of-sex-toys-incites-panic-at-berlin-airport-bomb-s-1828218652

Book Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/08/visas-refused-for-a-dozen-authors-invited-to-book-festival

Originally shared by Susan Jahn http://www.instructables.com/id/Milk-Jug-Skulls/

Drunken Sailors AKA Demon Rum Imbibers, do not Drunk Shoppe On Ye Amazon. The list of things they do instead is too long to fit in one post, and several involve bodily harm (to oneself, to others) and some lead to periods of incarceration and other forms of regret. Originally shared by Al Tlön

Hot House Flowers Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/earths-scorching-hot-history/566762/

Finest Kind It's perhaps fitting that all the versions of M*A*S*H had awkward and schlocky parts, and didn't have much in common with each other, or like each other, much. It's a little light on appreciating the writers of the TV show, but this article makes a lot of good points. Like a lot of things, I read the book, then saw the movie, then watched the TV show. You might not know that the real Trapper John, John Lyday, was from North Carolina. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-mash-taught-us

Well Traveled The main sheet traveler. A weighty and expensive bit of hardware from Garhauer. Multiple points of purchase for all that Dacron flogging in the wind. Good news? There is more clearance for knuckle heads under the boom. Bad news? Running backstays to muck with.

High Aspect 61' from the base of the mast to the aerial. We are taking great pains to bombproof things so that none of us will have to go up the mast in the bosun's chair. Also, the directional indicator will have to be an order of magnitude bigger in order to be seen from below.

Unchain (Plated) There is no corrosion like twenty five year old corrosion. And no tenacity like the tenacity of fully cured 5200. The evolution also proved once again that all needed parts will, at the most inconvenient time, go away to the deepest, darkest, most inaccessible part of the bilge. Even the parts associated with the standing rigging, laying on bucks outside the boat.

Snack Box Time Bobby Lounge is providing the soundtrack for working on the new 60' triple spreader mast. In the rain. Bobby Lounge-I Remember The Night Your Trailer Burned Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjRmcfLc6BQ

Originally shared by Walter Imai Bigger, Bolder, More Obnoxious The bigger, bolder, and more obnoxious it is, the more value it has, currently anyway. The trend for the big, in-your-face stuff has been going on for probably 25 years. People who wear aloha shirts want to be noticed. They find regular repeating designs to be boring. Two-color prints are boring. If you want to attract attention to yourself, then the textile print becomes important. -- Linda Arthur, Washington State University professor and curator When I came to Washington State University, I brought my passion for ethnic textiles and clothing with me. Our historic costume collection here at WSU now has increased in size as a result. We now have nearly 100 aloha shirts in our collection here at Washington State University. The University of Hawaii, where I taught from 1991 to 2002, has about 5,000 items of aloha attire, probably half of which are aloha shirts. This collection is in the Apparel Product Design and ...

Incoming! https://theaviationist.com/2018/08/03/report-meteor-made-2-1-kiloton-explosion-over-air-force-space-command-base-thule-greenland/

Grading On The Ball Curve Originally shared by Andres Soolo A Tôkŷo medical school has been caught lying to applicants it thought didn't have penises that they did badly in their entrance exams. An unnamed source described the unofficial policy as a “necessary evil”, introduced over fears too many women would later leave the profession to get married and start a family. “Many female students who graduate end up leaving the medical practice to give birth and raise children,” the source said. [...] According to university insiders with knowledge of the scheme, the doctoring of tests was carefully planned – a specific coefficient was used to artificially lower the scores of all women applying to the institution. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tokyo-medical-exam-results-female-doctors-grades-changed-medicine-a8475966.html

Mugged By Tumblr I've been drinking Sweet Ice Tea with Lemon and Mint out of Tervis Tumblers for... awhile. Most are absent of decor. Hope they square this away. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article215789905.html

The John Egerton School Of... Rabble Rousing, Haiku Spouting, Book Writing, Close Talking, Sausage Making, and South Fixing. “Most of us never ate fried green tomatoes and most of us never will,” he said to a Lexington, Kentucky, reporter in 1992. “But it’s the comeliness of the image that we cultivate.” “I’m not advocating a return to ‘the good old days’ of some mythic past,” he said. “For most people, they were never all that good to begin with.”⁠ The welcome table ideal was realizable, John said, but he never promised it would come easy. I have looked askance at the gentrification aspects of the Southern Foodways Alliance from time to time, but I've come to think that, like many things about being Southern, it's just complicated. And mostly better than not. Obviously, the same could be said about John Egerton. May The Sauce Be With You.