The future will be better
November 9, 2016 Leave a comment
Summed up in one simple picture.
Slogans for the 21st Century
April 22, 2016 Leave a comment
from Douglas Coupland
Found via this NY Times Article
The Frinkiac is what the Internet was made for.
February 5, 2016 Leave a comment
The Frinkiac is a thing of pure beauty. A combination search engine + meme creator that can dissect the entirety of the Simpsons catalog, frame by frame.
If you’ve lived most of your life quoting The Simpsons as I have, it’s nothing short of a miracle. This must be what it feels like when a deaf person finally gets those implants and can hear for the first time.
We’re not going to war with North Korea
December 18, 2014 Leave a comment
Not over a movie studio getting hacked.
“We didn’t go to war with North Korea when they murdered American soldiers in the 1970s with axes. We didn’t go to war with North Korea when they fired missiles over our allies. We didn’t go to war with North Korea when one of their ships torpedoed an alliance partner and killed some of their sailors. You’re going to tell me we’re now going to go to war because a Sony exec described Angelina Jolie as a diva? It’s not happening.”
Probably not ever. Read more of this post
A sign of the times
November 28, 2014 Leave a comment
In the 80’s, Playmobil police sets looked like this:
80’s Playmobil police
A couple of cops, ready for a traffic accident, protecting and serving, directing traffic.
So when did this (riot shield, assault rifles, gas masks, etc) become the idea of police that we want to teach to our children? With a few small tweaks you could turn this into the SS play set, no problem.
Playmobil Police special forces unit
Here’s what’s wrong with America.
August 6, 2014 Leave a comment
No, this isn’t a rant about sequels, the death of Hollywood, the rash of comic book adaptations, or any of that. It’s not even about the fact that the poster above has been banned by the MPAA (Movie Puritan Association of America).
It’s WHY.
One of my favorite stories
June 1, 2014 Leave a comment
I’ve probably posted this before, and I can’t remember when/where I first heard it. But its simple message, and the fact that it involves NASA at the height of the space race, makes it one of my favorites.
The below comes from a book called A Man On The Moon, The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin.
A few weeks before his Apollo 17 launch Ken Mattingly went to the launch pad and gazed up at the towering Saturn V rocket that would take him and two other astronauts to the moon. He realized at that moment that he barely knew what he was looking at. Sure, he understood the basic design, and he knew the parts and pieces he had to know. But their were several million parts in the whole thing and each one had been designed, fabricated, tested and installed bysomeone. Standing there, he knew the scope of Apollo was beyond the grasp of any one mind. He then rode the elevator up to the place where the third stage met the spacecraft adapter section, and there, at the juncture, was an open hatchway. He climbed through until he was standing inside a great metallic ring lined with pipes and electrical lines and all kinds of components. The lone technician who was working in there was startled- “Who are you? Get out of here.” – but once he understood that he was talking to one of the men who would ride this rocket, he was just as gracious as could be. He said to Mattingly, “You know, I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like for you. But I can tell you this: It won’t fail because of what I do.” Mattingly realized that the reason Apollo worked at all was because thousands of people had said to themselves, “It won’t fail because of me.”
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