believe in anything

"Last year I was attacked by three policemen at a demonstration who thought I was filming them. I..."

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:21:55 -0500

“Last year I was attacked by three policemen at a demonstration who thought I was filming them. I told them I was listening to colours, but they thought I was mocking them and tried to pull the camera off my head.”

- BBC News - The man who hears colour

The Rule (by Alison Bechdel) The Bechdel Test: Movies with at...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:30:05 -0500

The Rule (by Alison Bechdel)

The Bechdel Test: Movies with at least two women who talk to each other about something besides a man.

(via Cuddly pandas bound for Calgary, but not until...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:30:32 -0500

(via Cuddly pandas bound for Calgary, but not until 2018)

Canada, you are the best. Please never stop being boring.

"Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:52:03 -0500

“

Today the world’s gold stock is about 170,000 metric tons. If all of this gold were melded together, it would form a cube of about 68 feet per side. (Picture it fitting comfortably within a baseball infield.) At $1,750 per ounce — gold’s price as I write this — its value would be about $9.6 trillion. Call this cube pile A.

Let’s now create a pile B costing an equal amount. For that, we could buy all U.S. cropland (400 million acres with output of about $200 billion annually), plus 16 Exxon Mobils (the world’s most profitable company, one earning more than $40 billion annually). After these purchases, we would have about $1 trillion left over for walking-around money (no sense feeling strapped after this buying binge). Can you imagine an investor with $9.6 trillion selecting pile A over pile B?

”

- Warren Buffett: Why stocks beat gold and bonds - The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet

"I know wasting time is not necessarily narratively interesting, (though it can be. How one wastes..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:35:26 -0500

“

I know wasting time is not necessarily narratively interesting, (though it can be. How one wastes time says a lot about a person) but Star Trek [DS9] is at least in lip-service a post-scarcity world, and the Federation is not at war until Season 6. Wasting time and/or fucking around would be a lot of what people did with their lives. It’s a lot of what we do now, and we’re not even close to post-much at all. No one is frivolous in the future. No one exhibits poor or even mediocre time management. All are paladins of self-organization.

Wasting time has a unique pleasure (some call it slack) that we as humans are kind of addicted to. We’re starting to do it collectively on our social networks now, to waste time in a connected way. The universe of DS9 is culturally incredibly old-fashioned—all the aspects of life that were important to a 19th century officer can be found in spades, both in-show and in a meta-sense. In a world with faith in its higher-ups, as Star Trek purported to be, it is terrifying to see the paladins playing WoW. They should be defending justice even in their sleep—and this too is a very old idea.

[…]

In fifteen years or so, we’ve leapfrogged the social norms of Star Trek on the back of the Internet. It’s amazing to me just how quick the transition was—of course we’re still in it—and that more recent Star Treks have not and probably will not engage with this new reality either. Star Trek is a butterfly in a glass. It is no longer meant to predict or exhibit the future, but to quietly stand for the world of the past

”

- #shitsiskosays - Charlie’s Diary

(via Black Milk Clothing - Muscles Leggings)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:27:00 -0500

(via Black Milk Clothing - Muscles Leggings)

(via In Sickness and in Health | Collin Gray)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:19:40 -0500

(via In Sickness and in Health | Collin Gray)

(via Ulicam: The girl with 7 horses #7)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:38:24 -0500

(via Ulicam: The girl with 7 horses #7)

(via a softer world: 762)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:57:36 -0500

(via a softer world: 762)

(via Sarah Sudhoff)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:50:32 -0500

(via Sarah Sudhoff)

torontodesign: How to get to Wonderland

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:16:15 -0500

torontodesign:

How to get to Wonderland

(via Richard Mosse | Photography) What a mind blowing project....

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:13:30 -0500

(via Richard Mosse | Photography)

What a mind blowing project. Infrared film is so sexy.

(via Cat and Girl » Archive » Origin Story) HIPSTERS

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:15:06 -0500

(via Cat and Girl » Archive » Origin Story)

HIPSTERS

Photo

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:54:58 -0500

(via Penguin Sweaters) PENGUIN SWEATERS!

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:29:25 -0500

(via Penguin Sweaters)

PENGUIN SWEATERS!

torontodesign: nighthawks

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:50:04 -0400

torontodesign:

nighthawks

So what if she’s the leader of the anti-immigrant right...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:34:38 -0400

So what if she’s the leader of the anti-immigrant right wing National Front? Can you deny that this woman is French?!

Amazing. I’d vote for her on that photo alone.

(via Marine Le Pen’s awkward day on Capitol Hill | FP Passport)

(via The Lost Art of Buying From a Butcher - NYTimes.com)

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:07:11 -0400

(via The Lost Art of Buying From a Butcher - NYTimes.com)

"People who hear about what Nina does every Monday in a small back room on the third floor of the..."

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:00:05 -0400

“People who hear about what Nina does every Monday in a small back room on the third floor of the Field tend to call it “spider porn.” After I watched her image Sougambus bostoniensis, Diplocentria bidentata and Diplocentria rectangulata a few weeks ago, I’d say that they’re right—right, that is, assuming that the process of making adult films is also exhausting, frustrating, meticulous, and fraught with tremendous difficulty, punctuated by the occasional moment of transcendence.”

- Internet Porn Fills Gap in Spider Taxonomy | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

Photo

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:00:05 -0400