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More proof, as if needed, that the true definition of a gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipe, but won't.
BBspot claims to have obtained the super-duper-secretest-ever legal decision flowchart used by the RIAA. Everything now makes so much sense!
"While in residence at the Baltimore Museum of Industry during the last two years, Catherine Wagner was given access to their 50,000+ collection of historic light bulbs, one of the premier collections of vintage and antique light bulbs in the United States, with lights dating from the early 19th century. The resulting series of photographs titled A Narrative History of the Light Bulb embodies both sculptural installation and photography. Wagner creates arrangements of bulbs that she then photographs with an 8 by 10 view camera in order to record the glass enclosures and the delicate filaments…
Revisiting Stanley Miller's 1953 experiment about the creation of life on Earth.
In the mid-'70s, I visited the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, which had a major exhibit called "Is There Life On Other Planets?" The major draw was the bridge of the Enterprise "D," but as we wandered down a corridor, we spotted a television and several stools. Being children of the television age, we sat down and waited for something to watch.
cue visuals: The set of Julia Child's The French Chef.
cue music: The jaunty theme of The French Chef.
And there was the grande dame herself,…
I got wishbone in my pocket
I got a rabbit's foot 'round my wrist
You know I'd have all the things these lucky charms could bring
If you'd give me just one sweet kiss, rowr, rowr, rowr
Baby, I ain't askin' much of you
Just a big-a big-a hunk o' love will do.
I got a rabbit's foot 'round my wrist
You know I'd have all the things these lucky charms could bring
If you'd give me just one sweet kiss, rowr, rowr, rowr
Baby, I ain't askin' much of you
Just a big-a big-a hunk o' love will do.
So.
I am
I am
be gin
ning
to feel
okay with
the idea
that
I may poss i bly
be
an
audio
phile.
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Michael Ventura gets off the main roads and reports on the state of the union. The kids are leaving.
Chandler Phillips thought he was applying to Edmunds.com for a job writing an advice column on buying and leasing cars. The editors had a better idea. They asked him to go undercover and work as a salesman at two lots: a high-pressure import dealership on the "auto mile" and a no-haggle American showroom.
It's a fascinating look inside a world that, as a relatively happy user of mass transportation, I know naught of. Warning: It's a long 'un—10 pages and a glossary. You might want to bookmark it for when you have the time.
Kate Colquhoun reviews Martin Jones's Feast: Why Humans Share Food. At first I thought the article's title was absurdly inflated, but I was convinced by the time Colquhoun wrote: "To mangle Brillat-Savarin, he dissects not just what early humans ate, but how they ate, in order to draw conclusions about who they were. In the process, he proves once again that food and the ways we have chosen to process and proffer it can be more revealing than any other historical or prehistoric artefact."