The above graphic maps every nuclear explosion since 1945, along with its place, year and responsible party. If one were to count all the circles of various sizes, the sum total of explosions would amount to over 2000. To gulp over a larger map, click here.
(via Gizmodo)
Bonus: Social Distortion, 1945
Kino Video continues to put out sets devoted to the preservation of early avant-garde cinema. Volume 3 just came out, and, on YouTube, I managed to stumble across one of its more intriguing offerings. Directed by silent film-makers James Sibley Watson and Alec Wilder, Tomato Is Another Day (1930) featured an acting style that emphasized a flatness that was both weirdly druggy and overtly explanatory.
This was, of course, all by design. Watson and Wilder hatched TIAD as way of mocking the hyper-verbosity of the then-faddish “talkies” that were poised to sweep aside the expressive, gesture-based film-making of the silent era.
Pittsburgh-based tattoo artist Cliff Maynard has an unusual medium that he works with: used joint ends!
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Who would have thought there might be a romantic upside to living under a repressive regime? Barbara Demick, the Beijing Bureau Chief at the LA Times, had an excerpt from her upcoming book, Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea running in the magazine over the weekend.
Pretty much the entire country is starved for not just food but power (see map above). A lack of electricity, though, makes it much easier to choreograph a romantic rendezvous—especially when being seen in public might damage a career prospect, or, in the case of the woman discussed in Demick’s account, damage a virtuous reputation.
...their dates consisted of long walks in the dark. There was nothing else to do anyway; by the time they started dating in the early 1990s, no restaurants or cinemas were operating because of the lack of power.
They would meet after dinner. The girl had instructed her boyfriend not to knock on the door and risk questions from her older sisters or younger brother. The clatter of the neighbors masked the sound of his footsteps. He would wait hours for her. It didn?
While I recognize that number of Everything is Terrible posts is approaching the number of Stones posts here, I couldn’t resist this one. It’s so true!
Apparently, AIDS came from tigers. I’m not sure how to put a spin on that. I mean, AIDS. Tigers. AIDS. Tigers. WHAT IN THE
Researchers have found a strand of feline DNA in the AIDS virus, leading them to believe that the virus was incubated in a tiger thousands or millions of years ago. They speculate that the tiger may have bitten a monkey, setting in motion the viral evolution that would ultimately lead to the infection of humans. Though the research is unlikely to directly lead to treatment breakthroughs, it expands scientists?
File under “terrifying shit which will keep you up at night for weeks on end.” More Americans believe in the existence of guardian angels than the role of humans in global warming. I’m so glad we have our heads on right as a nation.
More Americans believe in guardian angels than humans’ role in global warming, according to recent polls.
A Pew poll released late last month found that just 36 percent of Americans believe humans are responsible for accelerating global climate change, which scientists say mushroomed after the industrial revolution due to humans’ dependence on carbon-based fuels.
(The Raw Story: More Americans believe in angels than humans’ role in global warming)
A TOY mouse supposed to sing “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells” has been recalled amid claims it warbles “paedophile, paedophile”.
The 4ins festive novelty, with Santa hat and a cheesy grin, has left parents stunned.
One mum said: “When I squeezed its tummy I couldn’t believe my ears. I recognised the tune, but the words were certainly not traditional. Luckily my children are too young to understand.”
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Maybe I’m just getting old and cranky, but I found Your Scene Sucks rather amusing. From the website:
everyone seems to be involved in some sort of strange contest where the winner wears the tightest jeans, puts on the silliest looking makeup, and sports the worst haircut. in the end, everyone loses. you all end up looking the same.
referring to the kids involved with today’s music scene, my good friend dave mcwane once said, “it’s not a fucking fashion show.” truer words have never been spoken.
(via Lost at E Minor)
