December 26, 2015 Happy New Year! From The Commercial Zen of Muji by Silvia Killingsworth, in the New Yorker: The colors, patterns, and materials are generic, but everything, from toothbrush holders to storage boxes, comes in pleasing shapes. [Their] compact all-white appliances are described by a display sign as having "a square shape tinged with mellow roundness." Its advertising conveys the sense that life without logos, loud colors, and sharp edges is peaceful and free of distraction and excess. December 5, 2015 In New York a year ago, on Broadway. James Fallows, in The Atlantic, on The Tragedy of the American Military. November 21, 2015 RIP Ed Walker, Big Broadcaster, Joy Boy, radio voice from my youth. November 11, 2015 The design of this Iowa bridge is mind-blowingly cool In the Soviet Union, "okroshka" were mystery ingrediants, diced into cubes. From A short history of the USSR through its food In The Atlantic, Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone September 27, 2015 Interactive US Fall Foliage map -- scroll down for notes on Autumnal colors. A few more Slate articles of note: Van Gogh's birthplace in the Netherlands, Zundert, celebrated his 125th birthday with a parade of amazing floats; European church façades by Markus Brunetti; Baths Are Better Than Showers: a Manifesto by Lily Hay Newman (includes the conundrum -- standing, how do you wash your feet?) and finally, the most important, History's True Warning by Timothy Snyder -- How our misunderstanding of the Holocaust offers moral cover for the geopolitical disasters of our time. Robert Foyle Hunwick in Foreign Policy: We're Still Fighting the Japanese in Bed -- "China's oversexed anti-Japanese propaganda and its underground porn trade have a lot in common." I've watched TV on the mainland, and it's true. Watching "Children of Men" -- don't ignore the background! (SLYT) August 26, 2015 Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion 1945-98 by Isao Hashimoto -- hypnotisch. Misophonia -- I suffer terribly from this. Also at Slate, Trump is the Only Candidate Talking About a Taboo Subject. I heard they're yelling 'White Power' at his rallies now. And where was that link? Ah yes -- the Fantastic Four was the Great American Novel. August 9, 2015 Is the new Fantastic Four movie The End of the Fantastic Four? Didn't realize the recent #645 would be the last issue of The World's Greatest Comic Magazine. Three from Bored Panda: the Hypnotizing Beauty of Lavendar Harvesting, How Birds See Our World and street artists paint 200 houses to unite community of Palmitas, Mexico (reminds me of Jhodpur). Why 'They Live' is the Perfect Movie for America's Toxic Politics and Culture July 13, 2015 A map of which states have legal fireworks. If you ignore Pennsylvania, the Fun Zone kinda resembles the Louisiana Purchase. Wikipedia: the Bellamy Salute -- what we did with our arms during the Pledge of Allegiance, up until WWII. At The Nation, speaking of flags, What Was the Confederate Flag Doing in Cuba, Vietnam, and Iraq? June 19, 2015 John McAbery sculpts wood. Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark. "Sponsored Content" or "Promoted Stories." You've seen it, down at the bottom of web pages; maybe you've even followed the links. Explanations at A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum, where John Mahoney goes all the way down. May 17, 2015 BlankOnBlank.org is the source of that Bucky animated interview mentioned previously. Many others there, curently featuring Ray Bradbury. A story in need of a James Burke treatment -- Cheese, pottery and human evolution involving lactose intolerance. April 13, 2015 Buckminster Fuller, on Life with clever animations. In The Atlantic, The Secret Life of Yo-yos. Die Schwarze Sonne -- early German science fiction April 5, 2015 Always enjoy Old Time Radio; have recently discovered Airchecks, audio archives of several minutes to hours of some radio station, now a broadcast from the past. First I came across was this whole day from 1939 of WTOP at archive.org, then more recently an hour from Top 40 KVIL in '67 at soundcloud which is gone now, probably because it hadn't been 'scoped', where most of the songs' middles are removed. Seeking the sounds of my youth led to this WPGC tribute site which has both triva and airchecks, but unlike there, this DJ's blog posting has links to some unscoped MP3s from that station 1963-1972. airportcod.es provides access to a fun fact about your favorite aerodrome via an attractive interface. This looks tasty -- The Leviathan. March 3 - Hinamatsuri At Vox, 21 snacks that explain our delicious world. I want that McDonalds banana pie #6 and also #16, Mandise? (a delicate sponge cake with chocolate and hazelnut). Kiss Me Deadly -- a video review by Colin Marshall 100 Years of National Geographic Maps: The Art and Science of Where February 1, 2015 Re-sizing countries based on their population. January 18, 2015 Mustang station wagon, fact or fiction? BoredPanda photos of abandoned building stairwells in Eastern Europe Today's A.A.Milne's birthday, so it's Winnie the Pooh Day.
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