In his 1607 Rich Storehouse, or Treasurie for the Diseased, Matthew Blower offers “a present medicine for the hickop”:
Take thy finger ends, and stop both thine ears very hard, and the hickop will surcease immediately.
I found this in Julian Walker’s How to Cure the Plague and Other Curious Remedies (2013), a collection of historical cures for various maladies. He says, “I tried it, and it worked.”
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When my brother and I built and flew the first man-carrying flying machine, we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars practically impossible. That we were not alone in this thought is evidenced by the fact that the French Peace Society presented us with medals on account of our invention. We thought governments would realize the impossibility of winning by surprise attacks, and that no country would enter into war with another of equal size when it knew that it would have to win by simply wearing out its enemy.
— Orville Wright to C.M. Hitchcock, June 21, 1917
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All it would take is for people to actually feel bad about being racist and this is almost a workable business model.
That’s not a great business, just FYI.
Young laborers from san quintin There is a crazy huge strike going on in Oaxaca, it got violent earlier this month when police and military got involved. There is a boycott of berrymex and driscolls berries right now, which i urge you to take part in to stand with the field laborers in Oaxaca and the US. Working conditions for field workers are atrocious, they are directly sprayed with pesticides, they are paid miserly wages, and live in extreme povery, often in camps around the fields. Havent seen a lot on this on tumblr, thought i would send some info out into the void… http://jornadabc.mx/tijuana/07-04-2015/jornaleros-de-san-quintin-mantienen-protesta-aun-pizcando http://www.noticiasnet.mx/portal/oaxaca/general/gobiernos/280329-oaxaca-b-california-garantizaran-dh-jornaleros-san-quintin
Romeo and Juliet are going all the way this time
The last kiss of Romeo and Juliet (1823), Francisco Hayez / All of The Lights, Kanye West ft. Rihanna, Kid Cudi with vocals by Fergie, Charlie Wilson, John Legend, Tony Williams, Alicia Keys, La Roux, The Dream, Ryan Leslie, Alvin Fields and Ken Lewis.
Tell you what, answering a bunch of dumb-ass questions about racism is not the tonic I’d hoped it would be.
Client: Can you email me that logo?
Me: Sure, what file format would you like?
Client: Oh, I don’t know. Nothing fancy.
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Good day! An exciting new episode of Morning Rush awaits, and CSWT holds its first sweepstakes contest! It doesn’t go well!
Hovertext: Ten Internet points to anyone who works out the 'math' on this.
Hey, I contributed to this awesome Sci Fi comic anthology. Give it a look!
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No wonder they taste so sweet,Cluster Fudge _by John McNamee
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Dude, everyone knows you’re high. The guy behind the counter at the deli, the girl walking her dog, everyone. Even the dog knows. In fact, your mom just called to say that she knows you’re high.
And I have bad news. You’re going to feel like this FOREVER. You will never not be high. You won’t be normal again, and everyone is going to know you are high. Forever.
Oh, and that realization you just had is totally true. Yeah, last week when your two friends showed up at the restaurant at the same time, it wasn’t a coincidence, they were hanging out without you. Because they hate you.
You know what you should do? You should text your friends and ask them if they hate you. Then you should call your mom and tell her you aren’t high. Then you should cry because this is forever.
But first, pizza.
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BAHFest 2015 submissions are now open. We are doing shows in Seattle, San Francisco, and MIT.
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Hovertext: WHY DOES EVERYONE LIKE RABBITS?! GUYS!
I'll be taking questions on Twitter today!
Hovertext: This is the best reason to invent human cloning.
This is the best reason to invent human cloning.
facebookreddit Eleven fenmen from the Isle of Ely, being employed by Sir John Griffin, in training a part of his park at Audley End, went one evening to the Inn called The Hoops, to drink. After getting a little spirited, they told the maid, they would give sixpence each to fetch them as much beer they could drink, in half-pints out of the cellar; if they tired her, she was to pay for the liquor; if she tired them, they were to pay for the whole. The girl accepted the bet, although she had been washing all the day, and drew them 517 single half-pints, before they gave out, which were all drank by the said men. The distance from the room where they sat, to the tap, was measured, from which it appears she walked near 12 miles in fetching it; and the quantity of liquor drank by each man was about three gallons in three hours. The above is the real fact.
— Police Gazette, Feb. 17, 1775
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MENTALLY ILL WOMAN TASED TO DEATH WHILE SHACKELED, BEATEN, AND HANDCUFFED
Natasha Mckenna, a mentally ill woman who died after a stun gun was used on her at the Fairfax County jail in February, was restrained with handcuffs behind her back, leg shackles and a mask when a sheriff’s deputy tasered her four times, incident reports obtained by The Washington Post show.
Six members of the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, dressed in white full-body biohazard suits and gas masks, arrived and placed a wildly struggling 130-pound McKenna into full restraints, their reports state. But when McKenna wouldn’t bend her knees so she could be placed into a wheeled restraint chair, a lieutenant delivered four 50,000-volt shocks from the Taser, enabling the other deputies to strap her into the chair.
Minutes later, she stopped breathing. Days later, she died.
The truth is, though, that police have been covering up the real details on Natasha’s death for months. And, even after all of this, police are not quite clear on why Natasha McKenna was even jailed in the first place. On the day she was arrested, she had actually called the police herself to report being assaulted and appeared to be struggling mightily with mental illness before she bounced around between hospitals and jails for days.
Nothing has happened to the officers yet.
#StayWoke
Hovertext: Oh wait. In this one she's smiling at that guy.
I did an interview with Zoink Games about the project I'm writing for them!
Hpeckerkinda irks me when they pick a line that's in tons of songs, then attribute it to one specific (newer) song
The false mirror recognizes real
The false mirror (1928), Rene Magritte / Embrace The Martian, KiD CuDi
facebookreddit Yeah, if a white person singled out the problems of black people to demonize them, that would just be called The News.
Government loves a white riot.
Client: I want a big image of the director prominently displayed on the main page of the website, front and center, about this size.
Client sends me an 800x600 image of the director in a stern, unsmiling pose, staring straight ahead.
Me: I don’t think that’s a good idea. That image is going to completely dominate the front page and gives a very unsettling “Big Brother” look.
Client: Big Brother? Who is that?
Me: Erm, it’s a reference from a very famous book about totalitarianism.
Client: I don’t know what that means, but I like the term “Big Brother”, it reinforces the “family” feel we are trying to portray. Please go ahead and put the image on the front page. Thanks.
