Just Inept
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My college buddy David Ringer, who works for the Audubon Society was on the radio today talking about birds threatened by the oil spill in the gulf. He starts about ten minutes in.
As Seen on TV - a tribute to doing it wrong:
Whenever a TV product commercial plays I bust a gut during the parts where they show us what we’re doing wrong and why we need the product.
This is my tribute to the hilarious work the actors in these infomercials do.
By kickintheheadcomic. (via marco)
Sun`s path June to December (via kottke.org)
The photo is from a homemade pinhole camera left outside for six months. Very cool.
Better Late…
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.
Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.
There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will last forever.
That must have been some garden party. (via inky)
St. George’s, Grenada (via justinbajema)
![“Don’t play everything (or every time); let some things go by. Some music [is] just imagined.”
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lowbroweye:
Thelonious Monk’s advice (1960): “A note can be small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.”](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzvucdTWiF1qzdfi4o1_400.jpg)
“Don’t play everything (or every time); let some things go by. Some music [is] just imagined.”
Thelonious Monk’s advice (1960): “A note can be small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.”
The stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in early morning dew | Mail Online (via daringfireball)
Sistine Chapel virtual panorama
See the Sistine Chapel without the din of the crowds. (via kottke.org)
In case you missed the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, this video should help fill you in on what you missed. The telephone could do everything and cutting in line was all the rage. (via Boing Boing)
