Muddle

Bummer and Lazarus were two stray dogs that roamed the streets of San Francisco, California, USA, in the early 1860s. Recognized for their unique bond and their prodigious rat-killing ability, they became a fixture of city newspapers, were exempted from local ordinances and immortalized in cartoons.

Ken Burns on stories.

I look up to him a lot. I want to make documentaries again.

“The Death of Socrates” - Jacques-Louis David

It’s all about Plato in this one.

Fresh tofu in Japan is far better than it is anywhere else, and the tofu in Kyoto is generally held to be the best in the country.

A friend of mine said the other day that Japanese cuisine was vegetarian pre-Tokugawa. This is a bit of an exaggeration, but as it turns out, during the Kamakura period, which was highly influenced by assimiliation of Buddhist practices, the vegetarian diet prevailed. Anyway, the tofu in Japan is genuinely amazing. Just last night I had Okonomiyaki with tofu and Maitake mushrooms at a place called Minato-ya in Ako city. Just perfect—and not that hard to make at home yourself.

The symbol on every Apple command key to this day — a stylized castle seen from above — was commonly used in Swedish campgrounds to denote an interesting sightseeing destination.

Susan Kare

Zapruder

ralphewig:

Space History - I found this amazing chart on the MIT Technology Review site. It shows the number of space launches for each country over time, starting with the very first launch ever, to the end of the Space Shuttle era. One thing that immediately struck me was that the often mentioned “US leadership in space flight” people were so worried about losing when the Shuttle retired isn’t as self-evident as some would like to believe.

Actually, the list of nations on that chart is pretty long, and growing every year! Just as all nations share the responsibility of stewardship for planet Earth - and the consequences when any one of them fails in that responsibility - it will take all of humanity’s resources and efforts to make us a multi-planetary society. No matter what flag is on it (although personally I’d prefer it to be none at all), any spaceship that successfully claws its way out of Earth’s gravity is an accomplishment for all of us.

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

and Basically everything else in 90 minutes.

“Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

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