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Link
2nd January 2012
Unbuilt Washington
Washington D.C. as it was envisioned by architects whose plans never became reality.
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Quote
6th December 2011
“… always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, “I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.”
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5th December 2011
Viaggio al centro della terra / A journey to the center of the earth (Explore!!!) (by AndreaPucci)
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Note
5th December 2011
Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger:
Further reflection revealed that it’s quite impractical—nearly impossible—to make a cheeseburger from scratch. Tomatoes are in season in the late summer. Lettuce is in season in the fall. Mammals are slaughtered in early winter. The process of making such a burger would take nearly a year, and would inherently involve omitting some core cheeseburger ingredients. It would be wildly expensive—requiring a trio of cows—and demand many acres of land. There’s just no sense in it.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
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4th December 2011
Works cited
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
Brilliant!
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2nd December 2011
“When Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as the killing of a human for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh.”
~ Ray Bradbury
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28th November 2011
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
~ Mother Theresa
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28th November 2011
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
~ Issac Asimov /via Daring Fireball
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26th November 2011
“In 100 years someone will use this image in a history paper.” -commenter woot4moo
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Video
26th November 2011
Brilliant. Wish the video quality was a bit higher though. (via Animation on a Bike)
