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Day Drinking
"I feel like gin. Just make something up." The Subversive Charm of Day Drinking, by Rosie Schapp.
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Daiquiri
"The daiquiri is a good, hard drink. Simple, dry, refreshing, a classic sour with more in common to a Tom Collins than a Slurpee." —Albert McMurry.
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I'm Your Venus
Ambrosia at Mefi describes this work succinctly, "Ana Utopia Giordano photoshops portraits of Venus for today's standards of the feminine ideal." Fascinating.
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True Adventures in Better Homes
Images from men's adventure magazines of the 50's and 60's "in an environment of orderly homes with sunny patios depicted in women's magazines of the same era." Terrific. True Adventures in Better...
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ZIRP
"They can play video games while we pop bonbons and watch the soaps and talk shows." Who knew former FDIC chair Sheila Bair was so funny?
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Ship Paths
"100 years of ship paths in the seas, as recorded in hundreds of ship's log books, by hand, one or several times a day." Then animated. Via Mefi.
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Camping With Edison, Ford, Firestone and Harding
Edison, Ford, Firestone and President Harding go camping in 1921.
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FNiA 171
Field Notes in action and in Missoula, Montana and in anticipation of an arrival.
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Sunscreen Facts
Sunscreens prevent sunburns, but beyond that simple fact surprisingly little is known about the safety and efficacy of these ubiquitous creams and sprays. Article: Sunscreens Exposed: 9 surprising truths
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A Very Graphic Poster
Barbara deWilde is currently running a Kickstarter campaign that celebrates analog design, inspired by Graphic Design of the 1940s and 50s. Barbara designed a poster that is made of many rectangular...
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Advanced Amateur Art History
"What makes the Renaissance different? Renaissance paintings look more realistic, good. What else? There are more decapitations, absolutely. You feel slightly attracted to the naked men and women, OK....
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Alex Girard Memory Game
Ammo books recently released this lovely Memory Game by Alexander Girard.
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Supergroups
Super Groups from Minigroups. Reassemble all fifty pop culture groups. Fun.
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Where Books Are Loved
Strand is New York City’s legendary home of 18 Miles of new, used and rare books. Since 1927. If you’re in NYC you might want to know that Strand is hosting an event with Christoph Niemann and...
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Inside Foxconn
American Public Radio's Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple's Chinese producer Foxconn.
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