Making the rounds is this awesome series of photographs of people facing very, very strong winds...
Man, I wonder if that hurts? You can see more on
Tadao Cern's Facebook Page.
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"Celebrate Diversity" used to seem a bit trite, and unappealing to my pragmatic, engineer-y self... "Why celebrate diversity? Why not enjoy stuff that seems objectively better somehow?" But celebrating diversity-- for its own sake-- is one of the few countermeasures I can think of to the natural human tendency to assume "most common" is also what's "normal" and better, and well on the path to thinking everything else is undesirable.
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slashmaze - source
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Our marketing director Gerard LaFond pointed me to an upcoming book by his co-collaborator (and Serious Games superstar) Ian Bogost... the books is called 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 and that happens to be a working program for the Commodore 64 that generates a pattern very much like you see here.
I'm looking forward to the book! Should be a good read.
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http://imgur.com/pOXX1 - creepiest patent image ever? (via ranjit)
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is -- brilliant metaphor... living la vida "straight white male" is the easy mode in the game of life.
"The reason for your complaint, it seems to me, is the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination...you reject too soon and too severely."
--Freud quoting Poet Schiller
"So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different than the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her."
--Donald Winnicott
"The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"
--The Treaty of Tripoli, signed by President John Adams and ratified by only the third ever unanimous vote of the US Senate. Man, what you learn reading Lamebook sometimes!
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Darren Aronofsky has a very distinctive gimmick in his films:
--via kottke
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--Man looks like MLK jr had some mad pool skills. via Cracked
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