first rule – don’t talk about fight club: bacterial cock-fighting may lead to new antibiotic therapies, via Dangerous Minds
don’t pay the ferry man: mysterious figuring punting in an Australian lake dressed as an undertaker, traveling via open casket
nightmare of dishpan hands: vintage laundry shaming
disrobed, disarming: 3D printed model of the Venus de Milo allows art history scholars to guess what she might have been doing with her hands
gravity assists: a thoughtful explanation and reflection of the slingshot effect in space propulsion via BLDGBlog
Sunday 5 July 2015
5x5
malkunst oder we’re having a heat-wave, a tropical heat-wave
On the hottest day since a dozen years, when the mercury rose to 40ยบ Centigrade (an unnatural, wilting and disgusting 104° Fahrenheit) we ventured out to have a refreshing dip in a pool in a the nearby village of Schรถnau.
Along the way towards the bathing installation (which was quite nice and didn’t feel overly crowded even though everyone else in a twenty kilometer radius had the same idea as us), I noticed quite a trove of such decorations, and I knew that I had to return, despite the unflagging heat, and take a few pictures before the go the way of the Gartenzwerge (lawn gnomes) or church bells (something that people aren’t always sentimental for or even tolerant of) and are torn down or spackled over in the name of progress.
Saturday 4 July 2015
siss boom ba
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, holidays and observances, revolution
Friday 3 July 2015
manifest destiny
Though the timing and the title of columnist Dylan Matthews’ piece for Vox, ‘Three Reasons Why the American Revolution was a Mistake,’ is perhaps a little overboard and ire-drawing—surely begging commentary that begs whether one actual read the article, it is something that’s worth the read and reflection.
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, ๐, foreign policy, revolution
5x5
gazetteer: an interesting and indemnifying collection of global maps
cuisine de rue: an in depth guide to the street specialties of European cities
dragnet, gumshoe: via our friends at Nag on the Lake, the non-profit group Sea Shepard is spearheading a campaign to create sneakers made exclusively from trash dredged from the oceans
moku hanga: Lucasfilm commissioned a master artist to create traditional Japanese woodblocks of the Star Wars saga
opening credits: a tribute to the iconic film title work of Saul Bass
catagories: ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐, ๐บ️, environment, food and drink, Star Wars