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Pages turning.
From p. 530-533 of The Lady’s Primer (1804). Original from Oxford University. Digitized August 30, 2006.
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Scott Summers: Dapper as hell and smooth with the ladies.
GOD DAMN IT SCOTT, I ASKED IF YOU HAD A QUARTER BECAUSE I CAN’T FIND MY CELL PHONE AND I NEED TO CALL THE PROFESSOR AND I FOUND THE ONE FUCKING PAY PHONE LEFT ON EARTH.
THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM SCOTT
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Protesting the Possum Incident - Portland, Oregon - May 1981.
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10 Anime That Will Change Your Life
firehosere: Utena in the comments, the author says it's "a totally valid addition and one I regret not including."
Only a handful of TV shows, movies, books or cartoons can be called "life-changing," masterpieces that transform you and the way you perceive yourself and/or the world, or let you understand something you never did before. These 10 anime series will change you if you watch them. But it's not a definitive list, so add your candidates in the comments!
1) Akira
When Katsuhiro Otomo's anime masterpiece came out in 1988, it changed a lot of people's lives — mainly because until they saw Akira, they had no idea that animation could be used for anything other than children's entertainment. More than 25 years later, this tale of teens in Neo-Tokyo who run afoul of a militarized government and a secret experiment to unlock telekinetic abilities may have lost its shock, but not its power. Although purely Japanese, Akira's tale of how modern society disenfranchises and co-opts youth into its faults and machinations is universal.
2) Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
As a child, Hayao Miyazaki wanted to be a manga artist. But after he became the most acclaimed director in anime, he only chose to adapt one of his works into manga — that being Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind. The post-apocalyptic fantasy is set in a world so ravaged by war that nature itself has risen up and created giant bugs called Ohmu to begin the slow process of purifying the planet while the remnants of humanity begin another slow, maddening descent into war. Nausicaä isn't so much a love letter to nature as it is Miyazaki's apology for man's foolishness, destructiveness and blindness, although it's one that still has enough optimism to hope that we can see the error of our ways before it's too late.
3) Neon Genesis Evangelion
A bold, brilliant reinvention of the giant robot genre. An examination of the id, the ego and superego. A massive exploration of Freudian psychology, Kabbalism, and the nature of the soul. It might be easier to explain what Evangelion isn't about. But despite decades of the most crass merchandising possible, Hideaki Anno's anime masterpiece still resounds with viewers of all nations and ages because of its primal storytelling power. Whether you accept the optimistic but troubling self-actualization shown at the end of the TV series or the movie's far more nihilistic conclusion, one cannot watch Evangelion without being changed in some way.
4) My Neighbor Totoro
Although Spirited Away won Miyazaki an Academy Award, his truest masterpiece may be My Neighbor Totoro. A deceptively simple tale of two young sisters who move out to the countryside and discover a magical world of giant "dust-bunnies", catbuses, and more, Totoro knows exactly how a child views the world, and presents it with the perfect amount of joy, wonder and mystery. It is impossible to watch My Neighbor Totoro and now remember how it felt to be truly young; and if you're already young it's impossible to watch the movie and not be mesmerized. And then want to own at least one stuffed Totoro.
5) Ghost in the Shell
When Masamune Shirow began putting out his cyber-police adventure Ghost in the Shell in 1989, it was hardly considered a masterpiece. But now Ghost in the Shell has become one of anime's most popular franchises, and that's thanks to Masamune Shirow's dark (one might say dour), trippy, brilliant 1995 movie adaptation. Where Shirow's manga was content to examine how technology and the internet would change crime, Oshii used cyborg protagonist Motoko Kusanagi to examine the meaning of life and consciousness in a world where the virtual was as legitimate as reality. Ghost in the Shell has inspired countless imitators, especially in anime, but none of them have had the effect or the staying power of the original movie.
6) Macross/Robotech
Whether you're a fan of the original Japanese anime Super-Dimensional Fortress Macross or Robotech, the Americanized adaptation cobbled together from it and two other anime series, the fact is the Macross saga remains one of the greatest love stories of the 20th century. Only Macross is willing to show love in all its forms — the way it brings joy, the way in brings pain, the way it brings sadness, and the way it brings insanity. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Love is what makes the commander of the most powerful spaceship in the galaxy, Lisa Hayes, wash the underwear of a lowly Veritech pilot, Rick Hunter, while he's chasing about an underage Chinese pop star named Minmei, who toys with Rick mercilessly while she pines for her cousin Lynn Kyle, who throws gin bottles at her. THAT'S LOVE, PEOPLE. And Robotech helped an entire generation understand love's messiness, even if we were all still powerless before it.
7) FLCL
Strange, surreal, bizarre — this barely begins to explain how weird FLCLis. This 6-episode OVA series was created by Kazuya Tsurumaki, who decided to throw everything he thought was cool into a single anime — baseball, bass guitars, Vespa, robots, and the Japanese rock band The Pillows. What he managed to create, though, was one of the great coming-of-age stories period, as 12-year-old Naota deals with the violent arrival of an alien girl named Haruko in his life and giant robots sprouting from his forehead. It's not especially subtle, but that doesn't make FLCL any less powerful or any more entertaining as Naota experiences the confusion, danger and excitement of growing up — via robot fights, girl troubles, and occasional beatings by Haruko with her bass. Also, it's really, really cool.
8) Serial Experiments Lain
More experimental and surreal than most of the anime on this list, Lain seems to trod where Ghost in the Shell does — about the relationship between consciousness and technology in a world where a virtual network called the Wired connects humanity. But Lain isn't as interested in technology as much as how communication and perception create Lain's identity — whether it's how she perceives herself or how other perceive her. There are multiple Lains in the Wired, all different aspects of her own personality, and not all working for her; but Lain's sense of self is also informed by what and how she presents herself to others, and how she communicates with them. Eventually, Lain recognizes her powers to control reality in the Wired, and essentially erases all memories of herself. Lain is troubled, yes, but the show's exploration of self, loneliness and perception is only more powerful for it.
9) Grave of the Fireflies
There have been countless films about war — the cost of the war to those fighting in it, the cost soldiers pay when they come home, the cost to their loved ones. But no movie ever managed to show the cost of war to the completely innocent — namely, a 14-year-old boy named Seita and his younger sister Seita — who starve to death as a result of World War II and the actions on both sides of the conflict. Arguably one of the saddest movies ever made, Grave basically watches these children lose their mother, get ignored by relatives and other adults more concerned for their own welfare, and then slowly, inexorably, needlessly die. It's the truest horror of war, shown uncompromisingly, and with no other desire than to make the viewer feel this pain, this loss — in hopes that it may never have to happen again.
10) Perfect Blue
Most of the late Satoshi Kon's works examine the nature of reality and fantasy, and the thin line separating the two. But the director's first film, Perfect Blue, does so in a manner more subtle than his other films, creating an unusual masterpiece that honestly could easily have been filmed in live-action. 1997's Perfect Blue is about a pop star named Mima who decides to become an actress, but a series of murders where she appears to be the prime suspect — murders that echo the movie she's starring in — loosen her hold on reality. It's the Hitchcock film Alfred Hitchcock never made, as Mima tries to discern what is life, what is the movie, and what she has or has not done. The movie is actually more powerful for refusing to utilize animation's possibilities, and keeping it "realistic" — the more seems both more and less surreal for it, enhancing the themes. And it's a massively entertaining thriller to boot!
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This isn’t a fucking competition Legolas
Any time anyone says Tolkien isn’t funny, I bring up this scene.
To put it in context, Aragorn is a ridiculously good tracker. He had just been literally lying flat on his belly on the ground, his ear pressed to the dirt, so he could listen for footsteps of the army that was way, way out of sight. We’re talking miles away, here. Aragorn was listening to the ground. And from that, he figured out that there were a lot of riders, on hecka fast horses, heading right towards them, with the intention of fucking their shit up. Pretty badass, right?
Cue Legolas, a.k.a. You Little Shit. Legolas is an elf. His eyesight and hearing is ridiculously good. Like, it puts any human’s to shame.
He literally let Aragorn lie there on the ground and strain to hear footsteps in the distance for no reason. And when Aragorn got up, the little shit drove the point home by saying “Oh yeah, I see them, I’ve seen them this whole time, there’s a hundred and five of them, oh yeah and they’re all blonde and they’re carrying spears nbd”
Cue Aragorn gritting his teeth in frustration and Legolas smirking like the sassy pointy-eared fuck that he is.
This may actually be my favorite part of LOTR okay
REVIEW: Warner Bros.' "Constantine" Pilot is Good, But Not Magical
It’s nearly impossible to get Ebola in New York. So why is everyone freaking out?
firehose'this outbreak has a 57% mortality rate—much lower than that oft-cited 90%. Victims die of organ failure, not blood loss'
'Avoid Ebola-infected pigs'
A man recently returned from West Africa is in the isolation unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, after heading to the hospital with possible symptoms of the Ebola virus, the disease that has killed nearly 900 people in West Africa. Though hospital officials now say that it’s unlikely the man has Ebola, they haven’t yet confirmed his diagnosis.
If your Twitter feed is anything like mine, news that Ebola might have turned up in Manhattan is freaking out a lot of Americans. “Helpful” bits of commentary include as that it’s “deadly uncurable,” has a 90% fatality rate, and causes “a hemorrhagic fever that eventually leads to a complete bleed-out.” Today’s news merely amplifies the anxiety that’s been building since word got out that two Americans infected with Ebola have been moved to US hospitals for treatment.
There are plenty of people who should be protecting themselves against Ebola’s spread—and they live in West Africa. Those of us who are in the US should feel comforted by the following:
- Ebola’s not airborne. It can only be spread through bodily fluids. The virus spreads when blood, semen, urine, vomit, feces, or other bodily fluids of an infected person come into contact with someone else’s mucus membranes.
- And it’s not just any infected person—it’s a symptomatic infected person. People can only catch ebola from someone actually exhibiting symptoms. Those include vomiting, diarrhea, and, in some cases, hemorrhaging of mucus membranes, such as nose, nail beds and eyes—in other words, pretty hard to miss.
- It isn’t curable, but people survive it. In fact, this outbreak has a 57% mortality rate—much lower than that oft-cited 90%. Victims die of organ failure, not blood loss.
- That pig study doesn’t mean anything. Some people are citing a 2008 study showing airborne Ebola transmission from pigs to rhesus monkeys (they were never in direct contact with each other). However, as Aetiology explains, this experiment showed merely that pigs seem unusually good at spritzing the air with coughed-up viruses. Avoid Ebola-infected pigs and you’re fine.
- Nearly every hospital in the US is equipped to treat Ebola patients and keep them in isolation. And the symptoms, once they set in, are so aggressive that it’s hard to do much of anything except head to the hospital.
Another reason for all the worry is that the media (Quartz included) has tended to zero in on this outbreak’s rapid spread and its being the “deadliest in history.” While both are true, that says way more about the quality of medical care in war-torn, poverty-stricken pockets of West Africa than it does about Ebola’s virulence. Compare the Mount Sinai response with that Liberian hospitals, which are so packed that they’re having to turn away Ebola patients. The country is running out of rubber gloves, and the health ministry just dumped 37 Ebola-infected corpses in a swampy, open hole near a (so far, relatively healthy) village. Those aren’t first-world problems.
Scott Z. Burns, who wrote the screenplay for Contagion, notes that Americans tend to freak out about “the monster we can see”—in this case, that would mean the gruesome images of Ebola victims bleeding from their faces—while ignoring more familiar but no less deadly risks. He has a point; thanks to the anti-vaccine movement, measles cases in the US have surged nearly fourfold since last year.
Least Secure Cars Revealed At Black Hat
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Please please please, if possible, bring a Movement script to Boston comic con? That book is one of the most important things I've ever read. It got me into comics. It still moves me in unspeakable ways, and my friends are actually going to be there to get one for me. I totally understand if you can't and if other people want other things, but if you did, it would mean the world.
Okay, how could I ignore a note like this?
The fourth script will be the MOVEMENT. Is issue eleven okay? It’s my favorite, focusing on Burden.
Scrabble Players Rejoice: 5,000 New Words Large And Small Are On The Way In Dictionary Update
firehoselol wow, te, 'as a variant of "ti," the seventh tone on the musical scale'
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Claude Paradin, Devises Heroïques, 1557
Claude Paradin, Devises Heroïques, 1557
Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus, 1637
Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus, 1637
Gone Home developer rebrands as 'Fullbright,' just Fullbright
The Fullbright Company, development studio of Gone Home fame, is nixing the "company" part of its name and is now simply called "Fullbright." The developer released a new logo to mark the occasion - we feel a strange thirst for root beer for some...
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I want one.
Link???? LINK???? HALP I NEED TO BUY NOW
GIRLFRIEND!
Newswire: Tom Hiddleston is even charming in emails, like the one he wrote to Joss Whedon
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'Hans Gruber with super-magic powers. As played by James Mason'
Already well on his way to cementing his reputation as the most charming human being to ever walk the face of the earth, it turns out Tom Hiddleston is also a very talented writer of emails. A new Joss Whedon biography reveals the correspondence between Hiddleston and Whedon, after the actor read Whedon’s first draft of The Avengers script. Business Insider has a full copy of the letter; here are some highlights:
- “The first time I read it I grabbed at it like Charlie Bucket snatching for a golden ticket somewhere behind the chocolate in the wrapper of a Wonka Bar.”
- “Thank you for writing me my Hans Gruber. But a Hans Gruber with super-magic powers. As played by James Mason.”
- “It’s high operatic villainy alongside detached throwaway tongue-in-cheek; plus the ‘real menace’ and his closely guarded suitcase of pain. It’s grand and epic and majestic and ...
[Hyrule Warriors] General Hype Thread. New character trailer.
firehoseYET ANOTHER PLAYABLE WOMAN CHARACTER
So, I've got to say, the male to female playable character ratio in this game is insane. There are 2 confirmed male characters and (now) 8 confirmed female ones.
I was kind of iffy when the game was announced 2 E3s ago, but now I am pretty hype.
Photographic Inventories of British Soldiers’ Kits From 1066 to 2014
1066 huscarl, Battle of Hastings
“Soldiers Inventories” is a photo series by photographer Thom Atkinson featuring 13 typical kits for British soldiers from the period 1066 to 2014. The kits — each marking notable wars over the nearly thousand year period — include uniforms, weapons, equipment, and personal items like decks of cards and letters. As part of the project, Atkinson has listed full inventories for each photograph.
1485 Yorkist man-at-arms, Battle of Bosworth
1709 private sentinel, Battle of Malplaquet
1916 private soldier, Battle of the Somme
2014 close-support sapper, Royal Engineers, Helmand Province
photos by Thom Atkinson
via The Awesomer
LinkedIn pays $6M over employee wage violations - CNET
firehose"After a US Department of Labor investigation finds the social network violated federal wage law, the company pays workers $6M in overtime back wages and damages."
rofl
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LinkedIn pays $6M over employee wage violations CNET After a US Department of Labor investigation finds the social network violated federal wage law, the company pays workers overtime back wages and damages. by Dara Kerr · @darakerr; August 4, 2014 4:08 PM PDT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin. LinkedIn pays $6M in unpaid wages, damagesWashington Post Feds say LinkedIn short-changed its workersCBS News all 100 news articles » |
Japan’s Military Space Force Will Protect the World From (Space Debris) Devastation - And unite all space programs between our nations.
firehosejesus, everybody is jumping on the space combat bandwagon
Japan is planning on launching Nova Corps a military space operation in 2019 that will protect satellites and other objects in orbit from dangerous space debris. I guess George Clooney and Sandra Bullock are busy or something?
We already knew that Japan had plans on how to clean up outer space with a giant magnetic net, but it’s currently unclear if this is part of the same plan or a completely new initiative. Either way, they’re pulling team members for the operation from Japan’s air force, and I’m guessing the recruitment process involves rigorous Last Starfighter-ing in the classic “don’t get hit by space debris” game Asteroids.
The mission will not only help curb the growing problem of space debris, but it’s meant to strengthen international space-ties between the U.S. and Japan. As they conduct research from their radar and telescope facilities to locate and take down debris, the Japanese team will feed the data they record to NASA.
Then we can all be cooperative best buddies and hopefully not get immediately punctured full of holes while entering Earth’s orbit—that really puts a damper on extending our reach to the stars above.
(via Raw Story, image via NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center)
Previously in space junk
- Physics students explored the legitimacy of Gravity
- The ISS had a serious ammonia leak likely caused by space debris
- There are other space cleanup plans, like harpoons and nets
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS CAT BEFORE
HER NAME IS TAMA
AND SHE’S THE STATIONMASTER AT A TRAIN STATION IN JAPAN
SHE GREETS ALL THE PASSENGERS
AND SHE HAS HER OWN OFFICE
AND SHE’S PAID IN CAT FOOD
AND SHE IS A FUCKING EXECUTIVE OF A FUCKING RAILROAD STATIONAND LOOK AT HER
the trains are decorated with cartoon versions of her since she’s their mascot as well
MAN YOU GOTTA TALK ABOUT THE TRAIN MORE TOO THOUGH!!
FOR ONE THERES A LITTLE LIBRARY INSIDE WITH CHILDREN’S BOOKS!!
AND TAMA THEMED COUCHES AND BACKBOARDS!!!
AND THE FRONT HAS WHISKERS!!!
I MEAN CHECK THIS OUT!!
A TAMA CAFE!! AN ENTIRE TAMA GIFTSHOP!! TAMA NOTEBOOKS TAMA BAGS TAMA EARRINGS MORE TAMA STUFF I NEVER GOT PICTURES OF!! THERE IS SO MUCH TAMA !! THIS GODDAMN CAT!!
Fucking Japan. Love this.
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Meet the Mona Lisa of the Prado, the earliest known copy of Da Vinci’s best portrait. Similarity in the undersketch of the painting indicates that this was very likely painted concurrently with the original Mona Lisa, by a student of Da Vinci.
There is much controversy in the art world over the question of whether or not to clean the fragile Mona Lisa, but her sister has been restored and some fairly odd later alterations removed to show the original vibrant colors and lighting. Some details, such as the sheerness of her shawl and the pattern on the neckline of her dress, have become utterly obscured in the original, but in the restored copy they’re perfectly clear.
It blows my mind a little bit to look at these two sisters side-by-side and imagine how much vivid detail could be hiding in the Mona Lisa under 500 years of rotten varnish.
THE COPY HAS EYEBROWS
Your response to a beautiful piece of artwork done by Leonardo Da Vinci himself is “SHES GOT EYEBROWS”. Alright. All intelligent life has been lost.
Yo Snooty McSnotwhine, the Mona Lisa’s vanished eyebrows have been the subject of debate and analysis in the art expert community for hundreds of years, long before your parents squirted water at each other from across the clown car and then honked their bicycle horns to indicate they really wanted to make a smug, insufferable little clown baby together.
this continues to be the best reply to a criticizing comment on this site
Hallelujah, Vastderp. Hallelujah.
