One of my favorite books growing up. Looks like they completely changed just about everything in adapting it to film, but with Wes Anderson at the helm I will cut major slack.
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
The philosophy of astronaut Michael Collins
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 [...]
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Young Steve Winwood
I thought I heard Steve Winwood singing in a Kaiser Permanente commercial last night. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t him, but whoever the singer was they sounded just like him. But it got me thinking about when Winwood was young, spaced out, and kind of badass. Here he is — with Chris Wood and Jim [...]
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Self-replicating desktop fabrication technology
This is amazing, and could change a lot of things, especially in the developing world. RepRap from Adrian Bowyer on Vimeo.
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Ghost towns of the Boom
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.
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Imported Landscape
Amazing landscape photography from Icelandic photographer Petur Thomsen
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Rest in Peace Karl Malden
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:
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GigaPan + scanning electron microscope = WOW
The Nano GigaPan Project and images by Molly Gibson. A – ma – zing. http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com/
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Sarah Palin
This article by Todd S. Purdum in Vanity Fair is totally biased, coming from the left, way left; but it is also totally fascinating. I have a million things to do but can’t stop reading: In Evansville, though, Palin concentrated on the task at hand: an emphatic defense of the anti-abortion cause. But in doing [...]
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