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Joshuah Bearman
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Virginal Super Soldiers
Why aren’t more people talking about Ghaddafi’s elite team of virginal super soldiers? We all knew Ghaddafi was a megalomanaical and evil dictator with a flair for fashion. But who knew he could combine all his interests in one stroke…
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Naturalists’ Deaths By Unnatural Causes
Richard Conniff, author of The Species Seekers, found himself, while researching that book, cataloging the strange deaths of many naturalists over the past two centuries. He compiled them on his website. It makes for fascinating reading. Among my favorites:
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The Incomparable Grace of Print
Portugal has a new, staple-stitched, full-color, full-bleed newspaper that was just voted the best designed paper in the world:
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Best Shot From the Nine Eyes of Google
Collections of imagery culled from Google Street View have been around for some time now, but Jon Rafman has the best eye for discerning the funny, surprising, and poignant moments captured by what amounts to the most extensive documentary photography project…
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USAF and Medusa
The only problem with naming your new weapons system “Gorgon Stare” as the Air Force has done: Medusa’s lapidogenic vision was actually used against her. In fact, it was classic asymmetrical warfare: the vastly more powerful Gorgon’s Stare against mortal little Perseus and…
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“Hardstyle”
“A HARDSTYLE fractal tierzon fractal, blender rendered diamond animation. Live trumpet live drums, synthesized bass.”
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Poor Malchik
In Tokyo, at the Shibuya Station, there is a statue of a dog named Hachiko who would come and greet his master every day after week, even after his master died.
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There Will Be Blood — and Power Ups
The epic, in (surprising metaphorically effective) 8-bit-ification.
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Dueling Dispatches from the Gathering of the Juggalos
It was inevitable, given the viral spread of the Gathering ’09’s infomercial last year, that some enterprising and well-vaccinated media types would show up and see it for themselves. I wish I could have gone.
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This Video Raises Many Questions
Such as: 1. Why are there two camels in a tiny car? 2. How does one get two camels in a tiny car? And the most important question: