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‘It struck me that I had five years here. Five long years of baked beans on toast. Five years without curry laksa.’
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Via Scoble, one for mineralophiles and old school Mac fans: photography by the man who wrote MacPaint and Hypercard. I wrote a space invaders game in Hypercard once; admittedly, it sucked.
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‘Cats were domesticated in the Near East from local wildcats, according to a new kitty family tree based on DNA evidence from nearly 1000 animals.’
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via information aesthetics: “Powers of Ten” is a 1977 short documentary film written and directed by Charles & Ray Eames, depicting the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten.
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Archaeologists have found some of the oldest evidence of cultivated food plants in South America.
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via Language Log: A list of brand names in the Simpsons, like the ‘Turn Your Head and Coif’ beauty parlour.
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Just another photo I like at Shorpy: “Summer 1938. Drugstore in Newark, Ohio.”
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