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Map/Infographic: Overnight Ferry Routes of Japan (2013) Well,...
Map/Infographic: Overnight Ferry Routes of Japan (2013)
Well, this is pretty much the loveliest thing I’ve ever seen. An awesome map/infographic combo from Japan showing overnight ferry routes in that country. The map uses a grid of dots to define the shape of the Japanese islands, and the routes are beautifully stylised, but clear and easy to follow. The minimalist colour scheme is quite lovely and is used sensibly to enhance understanding of the information presented. Note how the blue and purple alternate in the list of routes below the map, logically breaking the information up into chunks.
The list of routes seems to be very informative, showing fares and stops along the route, all of which are shown in a straight line along some sort of a scale (which seems to indicate hours) to allow for easy comparison. The fantastic technical illustrations of some the ships are just an added bonus.
How good is this infographic? Well, the fact that I can interpret much of the information shown, despite not being able to read one single character of Japanese says it all.
Our rating: Looks great while being packed with information. Five stars!
Source: Tripadvisor Japan/Tripgraphics
The Ingenuity And Beauty Of Creative Parchment Repair In Medieval Books
Bemused Snowy Owl Appears To Be Laughing at the Man Who Came to Visit Him
A bemused male snowy owl appears to be laughing at Adam Foley, a frequent visitor to his home. According to Adam, “Every time I visit this owl, it gives me this face”
The video has since been amusingly remixed with actual laughter.
Newswire: Andy Dick has been arrested for grand theft
In news that, unfortunately, probably won’t surprise anybody, Andy Dick has been arrested for grand larceny. This comes from TMZ—similarly unsurprisingly—which says that Dick allegedly stole a man’s $1,000 necklace last week. Apparently, the man was walking down Hollywood Boulevard and Andy Dick rode up on a bike, asked to see the necklace, and then rode off with it. The police were called, but they couldn’t find Dick until Friday night when they arrested him outside his apartment.
What is surprising about all of this, though, is that the story does not seem to involve Andy Dick’s penis in any way. That’s a nice change of pace from our usual Andy Dick-related Newswires. Sure, we don’t have all of the facts yet—like why this $1,000 necklace was so nice that Dick just had to (allegedly) have it that very ...
therainland: 2014 hasn’t even ended yet but I already extracted from it two main conclusions:1) it...
2014 hasn’t even ended yet but I already extracted from it two main conclusions:
1) it is possible to age ten years in one
2) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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there are too many pictures of mermaids in sexy poses and not enough of them drowning and eating men. whats up with that
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The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris – review | Books | The Guardian
In the autumn of 1787, gallery-going Parisians didn't know where to look. On the walls of the Louvre hung a self-portrait by the eminent artist Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun. In some ways the painting was deeply conventional. Mme Vigée Le Brun was dandling her infant daughter on her knee in a gesture that managed to invoke both the Virgin Mary and the new bourgeois ideal of "natural" motherhood. The problem was her mouth. It was smiling. Not just an enigmatic Mona Lisa smirk, but a proper one which showed her teeth. Was Vigée Le Brun mad, a slut or some kind of wild revolutionary? The only thing to do was rush past, and pretend you hadn't seen.
In this compelling Cheshire cat of a book, Colin Jones charts the moment in the mid-18th century when Paris learned to smile. Until that point, the court, tucked away at Versailles, had insisted that everyone kept a straight face. This was partly because France's most privileged mouths had been spoiled by too much sugar, and no one wanted their black stumps flashed to infinity in the Hall of Mirrors. But it was also because smiling in general risked making you look either plebeian or insane.
To understand why you have to go to the roots. Sourire, a smile, comes from sous-rire, a little laugh, and laughing was something that definitely belonged to the lower orders. Just like a yawn or a fart, a side-splitting guffaw breached the boundary between the body and the rest of the world. This inside-outsideness was fine if you were of a Rabelaisian turn of mind, but disturbing if you weren't. For in the bellylaugh's uninhibited rumble, it was possible to hear the stirrings of serious social and political dissent. No wonder the toffs at Versailles kept their mouths clamped shut, refusing to mobilise their features beyond the occasional sneer.
But in the 1760s, Jones argues, all this changed. The court was beginning to cede its prestige to the city, and the city felt like smiling. Bourgeois men had started doing it at work, and also in the coffee houses that were springing up around the bourse. A smile was infectious, closed the gap between friends and strangers, allowed deals to be struck and views exchanged. And whereas women had once been forbidden from showing their teeth in public, now salonnieres such as Suzanne Necker and Marie Thérèse Geoffrin made a point of greeting their guests with an upturned mouth.
Driving all this was a new culture of sensibility that valued the expression of emotion as a marker of an individual's essential humanity. Indeed, to smile the right kind of smile – truthful, unforced – was to announce yourself as a person of taste, discernment and, above all, feeling. You couldn't fake it, though. When a few adventurous nobles escaped to the city for the evening and tried pasting on a grin, they were quickly spotted as impersonators and sent back to Versailles where they were made to re-apply a poker face.
This is a difficult kind of history to pull off. Ancient bones can be dug up from car parks, DNA can be tested centuries later, but expressions are fleeting and leave little trace. Eight years ago, Vic Gatrell published his magnificent City of Laughter, which mapped the satire boom of late Georgian London. But Gatrell had hundreds of Rowlandson and Gillray prints on which to peg his argument about the political power of a dirty chuckle. Jones is obliged to work from thinner material. Still, he does well with the paintings of Jean-Baptiste Greuze, in whose descriptions of bourgeois family life you can spot plenty of jeunes filles and bonnes mamans facing down triumph and tragedy with a stoical smile pinned to their features.
He also pays great attention to literary texts, pointing out how the Parisian reading public became fixated on Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748) not so much because of the overwrought plot but because of the heroine's lovely smile. Later, Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse (1761) became a bible for thousands of city women who hoped that their own leathered features might be made to move with the same exquisite lability as those of Julie, the smiling-through-tears ingenue who managed to keep everyone cheerful even as she lay dying.
Proving that all these textual and painted smiles migrated to the real world is, of course, another matter. To make his case, Jones points to the rise of a new kind of dentistry. Under the old regime of teeth, anyone suffering from a pesky molar went to the Pont Neuf and put themselves in the hands of a fairground buffoon with a pair of pliers. But from the 1720s, you had the option of visiting the gentlemanly Pierre Fauchard in his well-appointed surgery in the sixth arrondissement, where each tooth was treated like an honoured family friend whose loss was the occasion for deep sorrow. By the middle of the century, Parisian dentists were recognised not simply as master technicians but as midwives to the new sociability. Thanks to their insistence on good oral hygiene, a spray of spittle or blast of halitosis no longer need come between a man and his coffee house confreres.
When the revolution finally arrived in 1789, two years after Vigée Le Brun's twinkling appearance in the Louvre, there seemed every reason to greet it with a smile. For what enlightened man or woman could quarrel with the promise of universal happiness? But by 1793, the mild and moderate bonheur of the early reformist phase had been replaced with the spiteful cackle of the Terror. To keep on smiling at such a time was to risk looking like a false friend to the people, a secret reactionary who was desperate to keep in with absolutely everyone. All you could do now was make sure that, as you were led away to your death, your features were arranged as they had been in happier times. To smile on the scaffold had become the ultimate act of political resistance.
• To order The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris (RRP £22.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846
• This article was amended on 17 October 2014. The French word "souris" means "mouse", not "smile" as an earlier version of this article suggested. This has been corrected
Portland Farmers Market at PSU to Stay Open Year-Round
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My company, Co3 Systems, is hiring both technical and nontechnical positions. If you live in the Boston area, click through and take a look.
Use RaspberryPi, Arduino, and OpenHAB to Monitor Your Home #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
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Instructables user electronichamsters has created a home monitoring system using RaspberryPi, Arduino, and OpenHAB.
…Tinkering eventually lead to making this full blown home automation system based on open source hardware (Arduino) and open source software (OpenHAB). I know I know, yet another “Arduino Home Automation” project, right? But I promise I’m not going to turn on a light from a smart phone. I’m more focused on extensive networked sensors, timely alerts, and aesthetically appealing presentation of events.
Here’s the basic idea. With Arduino, it’s really easy to connect boatloads of cheap sensors. Using this setup, that boatload of cheap sensors can now be on the internets. They can email you when things get too hot, too cold, too smokie, too gassy, or too bright. And your dog can email you by barking. You can also view the status of sensors on your smart phone. These sensor nodes are wireless, so you’re not constrained by the location of ethernet ports.
Learn how to make specific sensors or read the full guide
Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!
NEW PRODUCTS – 8mm Chromed Metal Wide Bevel LED Holder / 5mm Chromed Metal Narrow Bevel LED Holder / 5mm Chromed Metal Wide Convex Bevel LED Holder / 5mm Chromed Metal Wide Concave Bevel LED Holder – Packs of 5
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NEW PRODUCTS – 8mm Chromed Metal Wide Bevel LED Holder / 5mm Chromed Metal Narrow Bevel LED Holder / 5mm Chromed Metal Wide Convex Bevel LED Holder / 5mm Chromed Metal Wide Concave Bevel LED Holder – Packs of 5
Keep your LEDs in place with these beautiful chromed metal LED holders. These are handy for projects using individual LEDs as they look sleek, and your LED won’t budge. Slot the LED through the opening, cork it with the plastic end, and screw on the washer for a secure grip.
Comes as a pack of 5, and no LEDs are included.
The Largest Kuiper Belt Object Isn't Pluto Or Eris, But Triton
firehosefuck your dumb non-planet
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Worldwide Aaron Swartz Day Memorial Hackathons This Weekend
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Joey Hess Resigns From Debian
firehoseamong other reasons, https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01897.html:
'such as this physical threat posted to #debian-boot last night.
Current Debian "Devs" won't listen to users, They won't listen to system admins.
They won't listen to programmers. They force systemd on us and laugh "haha soon there will be no distro you can go to!"
They should at the very least be beaten. They have kicked from their ranks those who are "not socially acceptable" to women etc. Revenge is needed.
From my POV, that shades on one side into various sexist trolling and
threats that has been rightly rooted out as having no place in Debian
communications channels. And on the less extreme side, it shades into
posts like https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01834.html
which don't seem to me very connected with reality, and which in turn
shade into a whole lot of FUD and noise.'
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Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months
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Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted
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Long-term Study Finds No Link Between Video Game Violence and Real Violence
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Some doomed idiot stole Mike Vrabel's Super Bowl rings
firehose"You just pissed off a very large, very rich person"
To all the Houston area pawn shops: 3 super bowl rings are headed your way. Courtesy of the mother fuckers who smashed our back door in
— Mike Vrabel (@CoachVrabel50) November 8, 2014
First of all, sorry to hear this. Getting burglarized is awful.
But also ... damn, those are some stupid robbers. You just pissed off a very large, very rich person.
Ohio State players baffled by Michigan State's Sleep Number beds
Ohio State just can't find proper sleeping arrangements on the road.
When Ohio State went to Penn State, they were awakened by fans with air horns in the middle of the night. At Michigan State, they couldn't fall asleep to begin with:
Sleep number beds look so nice on tv but aren't in real life
— Jamarco Jones (@jjones_74) November 8, 2014
Does anybody know how to work a sleep number bed lol I'm struggling
— Sean Nuernberger (@Sean4Heisman1) November 8, 2014
Sleep number beds are shitty fr.
— Mr. Hill (@MichaelRealHill) November 8, 2014
Even coaches weren't too happy:
@MichaelRealHill how these things work? I was just pressing all kinds of buttons lol
— Mark Pantoni (@markpantoni) November 8, 2014
News got out, and more players kept hollering:
"@RyanGinnBSB: Twitter would indicate that Ohio State's bed situation is less than ideal. #Buckeyes pic.twitter.com/Qh1k3SPZTe" #accuratetweet
— Stephen Collier (@S13Collier) November 8, 2014
Sleep Number took care of them, though:
Justin Bieber is at the Steelers' bible study
We have no idea how this came about.
The Steelers are in New York to play the Jets and they're preparing for the game by praying with Justin Bieber.
Just met @justinbieber at Steelers Bible study tonight! pic.twitter.com/AhRkDST77Z
— Arthur Moats (@dabody52) November 9, 2014
Didn't know he was a steelers fan, but welcome to steelernation @justinbieber pic.twitter.com/5Fktaq329D
— Cam Heyward (@CamHeyward) November 9, 2014
It's regular for NFL teams to have night-before bible study and Bieber has earned headlines for embracing his Christian faith of late, but I guess we're just curious who called who.
Les Miles eats grass during LSU-Alabama
Les Miles became famous for chowing down on some Tiger Stadium grass, but we hadn't actually seen him doing it since 2010.
LSU-Alabama is tied at 10. Les Miles needs nourishment. He gets the nourishment he needs from the turf at Tiger Stadium:
Of course Miles famously did this in 2010 as the Tigers played Alabama in a 24-21 Tigers win. It's become a trademark -- he was shown drinking a "grass smoothie" in a College Football Playoff commercial, and his name on Home Depot's website brings up sod -- but so far as we can tell, Miles hadn't been captured munching on grass since that game in 2010.
We'll see if the good stuff helps Miles lead LSU to victory over the Tide again.
micdotcom: Women’s products cost more than men’s — and the...
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Women’s products cost more than men’s — and the French have had enough
It costs more to be a woman than a man.
It’s an infuriating and relatively unnoticed fact: Not only do women earn less than men, all around the world, they are essentially being “taxed” for their purchases.
Sometimes called the “invisible,” “pink” or “woman” tax, this capitalism-induced phenomenon reflects the price difference between otherwise functionally identical products marketed to women as opposed to men.
Unlike in the United States, however, France has decided to do something about it. | Follow micdotcom
lion: When you realize you’re not the only black person at a party
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lion:
When you realize you’re not the only black person at a party
medievalpoc: Khadak (2006) A Mongolian post-apocalyptic sci...
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A Mongolian post-apocalyptic sci fi/fantasy film about a plague that threatens to eradicate nomadism with a disabled protagonist? Get on my to-watch list!
geekgirlsmash: Do you guys understand how much I want this?...
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seriously, fuck, damn
Do you guys understand how much I want this? Skinny jeans, biker boots, cuddly skeleton sweater. I’d be warm, and cute, and spooky. It’s everything I need.
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realitista: It’s nice to get some positive news sometimes.
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