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July 9, 2013
In Passing #73
Huckberry | Razzle Dazzle Camouflage Over 6,000 Allied warships used camo in WWI and WWII to confuse the enemy.
Word Around the Net: THE NEW ILLITERACY There is some evidence that young people are even starting to lose the ability to accurately read facial expressions and tone of voice in their fellow man because they primarily relate through screens and texting
If You Don’t Work, You Die II | According To Hoyt Now the something I do might be knitting baby shoes, but at least it won’t be nothing.
A History of The 'New Yorker' | The Awl The letter—which, until now, has never been published in its entirety—is signed by 154 staffers, including J.D. Salinger, Calvin Trillin, John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid, Saul Steinberg and Janet Malcolm.
The Comforting Certainty of Unanswered Questions - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus The purpose of the scientific program was to discover everything we could possibly know, and now, maybe we had. Right? Relativity and quantum theory supplied the answer: Wrong. Not even close.
The Fall of the Humanities - Maggie's Farm The radical scholars recognized Western Civ had to be erased to achieve their goal of destroying the old order.
TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The Laxey Wheel Built in 1854 to pump water from mineshafts on the Isle of Man, the Laxey Wheel is the largest operating waterwheel in the world. It still turns
The Forbidden Island - Neatorama "Wild men! Estimate more than 50, carrying various homemade weapons, are making two or three wooden boats. Worrying they will board us at sunset."
Starkenberger Brewery - An Austrian brewery castle where you can literally swim in beer - Thrillist Nation
Lockdown – Marco.org Google Reader is just the latest casualty of the war that Facebook started, seemingly accidentally: the battle to own
everything.
10 Isolated tribes of the world which face extinction | 10awesome.com
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 9, 2013 1:43 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Re: A History of "The New Yorker."
I have no idea who these people are, or were:
J.D. Salinger, Calvin Trillin, John McPhee, Jamaica Kincaid, Saul Steinberg and Janet Malcolm.
I suppose they are (or were) terribly clever, and generally quite the thing. Thank God I don't have to concern myself with it. I will sleep well.
Posted by: Lorne at July 10, 2013 3:32 PM
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