From a friend of a friend

The human condition pretty much summed up by a Japanese friend of a friend (in an email):

“There are so many stupid people. It only takes 10 seconds to realize they are so stupid. You will be listening to him, say, "this guy is fucking stupid! " Then, some people, they are not stupid, they are full of shit. It does not take that long either to tell, does it? You will be listening... well, he is inteligence... AH! He is full of shit! Then, some people they are not stupid, they are not full of shit... they are fucking NUTS!”

Hacking

From Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson on the meetings that decided the rules of football:

"... at the Freemason’s Tavern in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, at 7pm on 8 December 1863, carrying the ball by hand was outlawed, and football and rugby went their separate ways. The dispute, strangely, was not over the use of the hand, but over hacking - that is, whether kicking opponents in the shins should be allowed. F.W. Campbell of Blackheath was very much in favour. ‘If you do away with [hacking],’ he said, ‘you will do away with all the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week’s practice.’ Sport he appears to have felt, was about pain, brutality and manliness; without that, if it actually came down to skill, any old foreigner might be able to win..."

Blackheath resigned from the association when hacking was eventually outlawed.

Good guitar music

Light

European empires

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.

Again, from the beginning

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New York Times on Berlin

Then and now photographs done beautifully.

Collaborative artwork

Zoomquilt Two

This sort of thing is very effective

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Philip

Cool point and click adventure

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Marketing man

Fifty years of space exploration

On this graphic.