Astronaut Michael Collins once again addressing the “weren’t you lonely?” line, from a NASA press release dated July 15, 2009: I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy [...]
New developments are going broke all over the nation, resulting in modern ghost towns. As reported in the NY Times, with this accompanying slide show.
One of my favorite actors passed away yesterday at age 97. His obit in the NY Times is here, and here also is one of his best moments:
The Nano GigaPan Project and images by Molly Gibson. A – ma – zing. http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com/
Great article by RJ Evans accompanied by amazing photographs from 100 years ago: The Incredible Century Old Color Photography of Prokudin-Gorsky
Ginger Baker in Nigeria, with some friends he’s just found:
Something must have been in the air, the water or the planets during the very tail end of the nineteenth century. 1899 saw the births of quite a few cultural titans. Here are but a few: Fred AstaireErnest HemingwayHumphrey BogartJames CagneyAl CaponeHoagy CarmichaelAlfred HitchcockDuke EllingtonNoël CowardVladimir NabokovSonny Boy WilliamsonE.B. White
George Orwell first published 1984. I think we can all agree the world has not been the same since.
25 Years of growth in Lost Wages, via the NASA Earth Observatory.