Apparently, the Photographer Being Sued By A Monkey Over Its “Selfie” Is Now Broke.
Fifty Words… (Nate DiMeo)
There’s a whale, right now, who may have escaped a Nantucketer’s harpoon in 1850. And a Japanese whaler in 1950. Who once heard the distant songs of 50,000 of her kind. Then several thousand. Then hundreds. But who can hear 25,000 again, singing in the warming water.
—Nate DiMeo
—the memory palace (Episode 50)
sarcastic interrogative
sarcastic interrogative. noun. Defined by folklorist Charles Clay Doyle as “stock questions with glaringly obvious yes or no answers. The function of each such question is to respond derisively to a prior query, itself calling for a yes or no answer so as to suggest that the answer to the original query is too obvious to be worth proffering seriously.” Perhaps the most famous example: “Is the Pope Catholic?” And perhaps the most canonical: “Can a duck swim?”
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Links: July 16, 2017
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The only thing better than maps are maps about words! → 25 maps that explain the English language
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Enjoy the 1984 issue of the Post New York Post.
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“The origin of the word ‘prosthesis’ meant ‘to add, put on to,’ so not to fix or replace, but to extend. The Third Thumb is inspired by this word origin, exploring human augmentation and aiming to reframe prosthetics as extensions of the body.”
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Letterpress love! → Amos Kennedy Jr.: From Corporate Analyst To Modern-Day Artisan
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If you’re going to fake historical documents you might want to choose a font a typeface that exists at the time… → A Font Is at the Heart of Pakistan’s Prime Minister’s Legal Troubles
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The Ultimate Latin Dictionary: After 122 Years, Still At Work On The Letter ‘N’
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“Established to create books which aren’t, in the quotidian sense, books at all … Container creates objects which masquerade as parking meters, wallpaper, or crop seed sleeves.” Their first production is a diverse series of Rolodex Books by eight writers and artists. Next up, book objects made from vintage metal lunchboxes.
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Vintage typewriters gain fans amid ‘digital burnout’ :: And who knows, you might get really lucky → ‘€100 typewriter’ found to be German code machine [Thanks, Reader C.]
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The ultimate tattoo? → Scientists Upload a Galloping Horse GIF into Bacteria :: And serendipitously, via Reader B., the science behind this CRISPR encoding.
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Today in 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the first atomic bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The successful Trinity Test was he fruit of the Manhattan Project, which in the usual government fashion saw the initial \$6000 estimated cost end up running to more than \$2-billion. Kenneth Bainbridge, the director of the Manhattan Project, turned to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the chief scientist, and said, “Now we are all sons of bitches.” Bainbridge would later describe the explosion as a “foul and awesome display.” The United States wasted no time, putting the new weapon to use just three weeks later, (perhaps needlessly) bombing Hiroshima, Japan, ending World War II.
Salvador Dali on “What’s My Line”
Salvador Dali takes a turn on the television game show “What’s My Line?” Hint: there are scores of great clips from “What’s My Line” on YouTube. You’re welcome.
Anti-Suffragette Postcards
From vintage everyday, an amazing collection of vintage anti-suffragette postcards.
On tyrants and martyrs (Søren Kierkegaard)
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
—Søren Kierkegaard
—from The Journals of Kierkegaard
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