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Balloon halo (at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival)

“If you’re not hungry enough to eat an apple, you’re not really hungry.”

- In Conversation: Michael Pollan and Adam Platt — Grub Street New York

The Stone Rosss (at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival)

Low - Just Make It Stop (by subpoprecords)

Even after all these years magnetosphere still looks awesome on a projector. Still nothing like it.

Good to be back. (at Deepwell Estates)

mackenzie:

I’ve now tried this 4 times and have decided to give up. $1 Venmo payments are sort of my thing.

 I’ve verified my number THREE TIMES. Maddening. 

Only off by a decade, NBD. 

“In contrast, anybody with a pulse can sell a massively winning product like Google Ads or VMware hypervisors, but people who consistently sold Lanier copiers against Xerox were elite. In fact, it might be a good sign that a sales rep was successful at a bad company. To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.”

- Through The Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People | TechCrunch

“Arcology recognizes the necessity of the radical reorganisation of the sprawling urban landscape into dense, integrated, three-dimensional cities in order to support the complex activities that sustain human culture”

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Paolo Soleri, architect who coined ‘arcology’, passes away aged 93 (Wired UK)

This is very sad. He’s been a personal hero of mine since I was just a boy. 

The prop was not custom-made in the Star Trek Art Department, but it is available from a company called Modern Props. The prop is described as “dual generators with rotating neon lights inside an acrylic tube; light-controlled panel with knobs and buttons.” It can be rented from the company, although we would expect the Art Department to finally build a similar prop of their own. The tubes appear in other science fiction series and movies as well, such as “V” (the 1983 miniseries), “Airplane II” (with William Shatner) or “The Last Starfighter”.

via ex astris scientia

fannybottoms:

Photos of me from when Emma visited me back in 2007. I think I’ve aged pretty well, don’t you?

My Game of Thrones DVD narrated by Tracy Morgan and JB Smoove arrived and it is wonderful. (at The Webbles)

analogcraftsman:

Synth Tech E350 Morphing Terrarium MU conversion.

I will never get tired of this song. 

“Consider, for instance, the burgeoning phenomenon of sports teams that employ their own beat reporters to cover them, often with a high degree of independence. Google News treats their work as news. But how different is that practice, really, from the growing number companies in other industries that employ writers to write generate content about their products and push that content out through their websites, social media channels and other publishing platforms? (The latter include BrandVoice, FORBES’s native advertising product.) If the Green Bay Packers can publish stories about their product and have them deemed Google News-worthy, why can’t Chrysler do the same?”

- Why Google Should Rethink Its Approach to Sponsored Content - The Bureau - NewsCred Blog

This is a pretty amazing Karaoke disc, right here. Also has Dead Can Dance Karaoke. And Skinny Puppy. And Neil Diamond.

“Some tropes are serially repackaged: Last April’s “10 Unbelievably Beautiful Places You’ve Probably Never Heard Of,” for BBC America, begat “10 Beautiful Places in the World That Actually Exist,” for Pepsi Next, which begat “10 Places That Are Almost Too Beautiful to Be Real,” for Campbell’s Soup. In late March, the dog caught its tail, as Dave Stopera published a new post: “28 Incredibly Beautiful Places You Won’t Believe Actually Exist.””

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Does Buzzfeed Know the Secret? — New York Magazine

Haha! All in all a pretty balanced article, though.