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I wish my Facebook interaction looked more like this.
Cannot. Stop. Laughing.
(Source: lawrenceluu)
Dear British followers: Is this relatively accurate? Y/N
“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great big vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless. It goes on forever, inwardly. The fact that you’re alive is amazing. Do you understand? So you don’t get to be bored.”
Alisa Miller : The Bad News About The News
Please watch this.
Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why — though we want to know more about the world than ever — the US news media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs. (Recorded March 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 4:29.)
“In fact viewership of al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.”
![Russia in color, a century ago
This color photo was taken by the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in what is today the country of Georgia … in 1910. No, seriously. (That’s actually him in the photo!) In August, Boston.com put up 34 amazing color photographs taken a century ago in the Russian Empire, and here’s the technique involved:
[Prokudin-Gorskii] used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
Click through to see them all. You won’t believe you’re looking at 100-year-old images.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcxgt7xzQU1qzo6cio1_500.jpg)
Russia in color, a century ago
This color photo was taken by the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in what is today the country of Georgia … in 1910. No, seriously. (That’s actually him in the photo!) In August, Boston.com put up 34 amazing color photographs taken a century ago in the Russian Empire, and here’s the technique involved:
[Prokudin-Gorskii] used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images.
Click through to see them all. You won’t believe you’re looking at 100-year-old images.
“I’m acutely aware that this image will be seen by children, who will undoubtedly find it distressing. We have consulted with a number of child psychologists about its potential impact … In the end, I felt that the image is a window into the reality of what is happening — and what can happen — in a war that affects and involves all of us. I would rather confront readers with the Taliban’s treatment of women than ignore it. I would rather people know that reality as they make up their minds about what the U.S. and its allies should do in Afghanistan.”
From: Time managing editor Richard Stengel, on his decision to put a photo of an Afghan woman who was mutilated by the Taliban on the cover of the magazine (via New York Mag) (via soupsoup)
austinimus:paintangerinenvy:bambilly:rasputin:areyouthedoctor:thechocolatebrigad:
1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods
2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins)
4. Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery
5. Esprit de l’escalier (French): a witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs…
6. Meraki (Greek): doing something with soul, creativity, or love
7. Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways’, referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language.
8. Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art,which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.
9. Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favour, but you can also use up your guanxi by asking for a favour to be repaid.
10. Pochemuchka (Russian): a person who asks a lot of questions
11. Tingo (Pascuense language of Easter Island): to borrow objects one by one from a neighbour’s house until there is nothing left
12. Radioukacz (Polish): a person who worked as a telegraphist for the resistance movements on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain
13. Selathirupavar (Tamil): a word used to define a certain type of absence without official leave in face of duty
I love this!
That’s just sad.
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