Wednesday, 4 July 2012

As I stood there in Ikea, naked and ashamed, I came to an important decision. Next time only one of us would wear a blindfold.

Frank Ocean

I salute you

‏@AdrianChen

I bet Frank Ocean sent that letter to Andrew Sullivan too but it got caught in his spam filter.

Global warming: It's "I-told you-so" time

For all Mitt Romney’s touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is remarkably shy about disclosing numbers and investments. Nicholas Shaxson delves into the murky world of offshore finance, revealing loopholes that allow the very wealthy to skirt tax laws, and investigating just how much of Romney’s fortune (with $30 million in Bain Capital funds in the Cayman Islands alone?) looks pretty strange for a presidential candidate...
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Stanley Chow: Jimi Hendrix

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US increases harassment of WikiLeaks, Assange associates

The Persecution of Julian Assange

I Love the Julian Assange Show!

Tonybee Tiles

For three decades, someone has been laying cryptic tile messages about resurrecting the dead in the cities roads throughout the U.S. and around the world. These tiles have been named Toynbee Tiles after the British historian, Arnold Toynbee, who often discussed the rise and fall of civilizations. The people or person responsible for these tiles has remained a secret with many theories as to who is responsible. A movie titled Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles was released last year piecing together key events in an attempt to unravel the mystery and surreal story behind the tiles.
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Zooming Into The Center Of The Milky Way

This zoom sequence stars with a view of the Milky Way. We zoom in towards the crowded central region, in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). By shifting to an infrared view we see through the dusty clouds in this direction and get a close up view of the objects orbiting the supermassive black hole that lies at the center of the Milky Way. The final views show the motion of a newly-discovered gas cloud that is falling rapidly towards the central black hole.
credit: ESO/MPE/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)/VISTA/J. Emerson/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Music: xxx
Source: http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1151d/

Happy Birthday, Hubble: Celebrating 22 Years of Stunning Space Images

♪♫ Miles Davis - So What

Miles Davis was a man of few words. When he did speak, his words often had a similar effect to a hand grenade being lobbed into the room. In 1987, he was invited to a White House dinner by Ronald Reagan. Few of the guests appeared to know who he was. During dinner, Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he'd done with his life to merit an invitation. Straight-faced, Davis replied: "Well, I've changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except fuck the president?"