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thisistheverge: Read the full run of ‘Omni’ magazine at the Internet Archive Yup, there goes the rest of the day. How I spent my tween-age years, reading.
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gizmodocom: This Lamp Is Made From a Single Sheet of Cardboard By Jamie Condliffe Instructables user Jesse Harrington Au has designed this amazing lamp which is made from just a single sheet of cardboard and an inexpensive ribbon of LED lights. And the best bit is, you can make one too. Read More
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pbsthisdayinhistory: November 3, 1969: PBS is Founded On November 3, 1969, PBS was created to provide educational televisionprogramming and services that reflect the diverse interests of theAmerican people. Today, nearly 90% of U.S. television households tune into PBS memberstations, and we are expanding our public service mission to digitalmedia. In September 2012, Americans watched more…
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Learn to listen. This is especially difficult for members of dominant groups. If someone confronts you with your own behavior that supports privilege, step off the path of least resistance that encourages you to defend and deny. Don’t tell them they’re too sensitive or need a better sense of humor, and don’t try to explain…
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shortformblog: High resolution, small size: Here’s an image printed at 50×50 micrometers with a 100,000-dot-per-inch resolution, then blown up so it’s big enough to show to you guys on the interwebs. Cool, eh? Here’s the science involved.
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ransomcenter: “Unassembled model of Bel Geddes’s Prefabricated House,” ca. 1941—42. Photograph by unidentified photographer. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. Read the full article “In The Galleries: Bel Geddes’s Modular Homes” on the Harry Ransom Center’s blog Cultural Compass.
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good: That $4 Billion George Lucas Is Getting From Disney? He’s Giving it to Education – by Liz Dwyer With the news that George Lucas is selling Lucasfilm to Disney for a reported $4.05 billion, there’s been plenty of speculation over who will write and direct Star Wars: Episode VII and what Lucas, who owns 100…
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JF: But do you want to touch people who will say, “I’ve felt that too”? SA: Yeah, but the thing is, people always told me their story. They didn’t say, ‘This made me feel like 100 other people.’ The creation is specific and the response is specific. Good art is specific. Godzilla is universal. A…
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calvinandhobbes-daily: November 01, 1990
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If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein (via underpaidgenius) I hope he really said this. My wife never understands why I start from the absurd, or why I go quickly to the absurd. There is very productive, fruitful terrain for creative ideas in the absurd.…