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A Super Srsly Accurate Diagram of Earth: Accurate Edition

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:50:28 -0400

A Super Srsly Accurate Diagram of Earth: Accurate Edition:

from Chatroulette Trolls: Art of Trolling

Stop Sign WIN

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:13:50 -0400

Stop Sign WIN:

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mierdasvarias: “Teniendo una mujer de verdad aquí mismo, ¿por...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:19:49 -0400

mierdasvarias:

“Teniendo una mujer de verdad aquí mismo, ¿por qué te metes en internet a discutir?”

(1607) ¿Por qué la gente odia su trabajo?

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:29:42 -0400

(1607) ¿Por qué la gente odia su trabajo?:

Whenever things are good I always worry about what could go wrong.

And whenever things are bad it always seems like they will never get better. It’s not depression. It’s how the human brain works after one million years of avoiding predators.

Every day I try to practice reversing that. I do that by listening to the body, the mind, being grateful, being around positive people, sleeping a lot, eating well.

But having a job and being controlled by Masters ruins the practice.

Some new study just came out and said more than 50% of people hate their jobs, for the first time ever.

What? For the first time ever? I doubt that.

Someone on quora asked me: why do people hate their jobs? I answered:

Note, not everyone hates their jobs. There are some “entre-ployees” out there that love their jobs. But for the other 98% of the population:

- Jobs are modern-day slavery. We are paid just enough to live and not more. You are punished if you ask for more.

- We are often verbally abused on the job and we take it because we think it’s normal that people would yell at us.

- The government gets up to 50% of your paycheck and then 10-20% of that goes to kill people on other parts of the planet, including our own children.

- We are deluded into thinking our job-friends are our real-friends. With our job friends we talk about pens, genitals, and cubicles. We stop having real-friends.

- There’s a glass ceiling. It doesn’t matter if you are a woman or minority or a white man. The glass ceiling is that you aren’t allowed to make more than your Master, even if he’s an idiot.

- From 7am to 7pm you are either A) going to work, B) at work, or C) coming back from work. Hence, the times when you can be most creative are garbage-compacted into your cubicle.

- You eat shit at work. And, even worse, you have to shit next to your co-workers and Masters. Unless, like I have, you make a map of all the secret bathrooms in your local urban blight.

- When you are paranoid at a job, you are probably correct. THEY are, in fact, talking about you and backstabbing you right now.

- You realize that all the dollars you spent on degrees to get you a job that will make you happy were completely wasted. You were scammed but you can’t let the next generation know how stupid you were so now you become part of perpetuating the scam.

- A trillion dollar marketing campaign forced you to buy a house you didn’t really want and now you will “lose a house” you never really owned if you don’t bow down to the Masters every day. The words “The American Dream” were coined by Fannie Mae in a marketing campaign 40 years ago to sell mortgages to slaves.

- Your spouse is tired of hearing about your job after six months. And you couldn’t care less about hers. Ten years later you wake up next to a total stranger. 40 years later you die next to one.

- Your IRA was not intended to provide for your retirement. It was intended to take money from you every month so you remain chained to your cubicle. Inflation then takes 90% of your IRA.

- When you were a kid you liked to draw, and read, and run, and laugh, and play, and imagine a magical world. You’re never going to do any of that again.

- Over time everyone is getting fired and being replaced by younger, cheaper, more temporary, more robotic, versions of you. You see this but are afraid to do anything about it.

- You see homeless people and think, “there but for the grace of God go I”.

This is not meant to be depressing. Nor does it mean everyone hates their jobs. There are many ways to be an “entre-ployee” where you don’t have the standard job. To be clear: There are more opportunities than ever. But you have to prepare the body and mind and spirit to find those opportunities.

(17433) Viaja mientras seas joven

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:15:23 -0400

(17433) Viaja mientras seas joven:

The other night, I had a conversation with a young woman who had a number of decisions ahead of her, one of which was whether she should go to grad school or travel the world. I told her to travel. Hands down. No excuses. Just go. The results are worth the costs.

She sighed.

Photo credit: kokorowa (Creative Commons)

“Yeah, but…”

Never were more fatal words spoken:

Yeah, but… what about debt?
Yeah, but… what about my job?
Yeah, but… what about my boyfriend (or dog or car or whatever)?

“Yeah, but…” is pernicious. Because it makes it sound like we have the best of intentions when really we are just too scared to do what we should. It allows us to be cowards, while sounding noble.

Most people I know who waited to travel the world never did. Conversely, plenty of people who waited for grad school or a steady job and traveled still did those things — eventually. Be careful of the yeah-but. The yeah-but will kill your dreams. [Tweet that]

I was so stirred by this conversation that I shared it with a group of 30 young adults last night, many who were asking these very same questions.

The life you’ve always wanted

When you get older, life seems to just sort of happen to you. Your youth is a time of total empowerment. You get to do what you want.

But as you mature and gain new responsibilities, you have to be very intentional about making sure you don’t lose sight of what’s important.

So if you still have a reasonable amount of control over your circumstances, you should do what really matters. Because life won’t always be just about you.

During early adulthood, your worldview is still being formed. It’s important to steward this time — to give yourself opportunities to grow. A good way to do that is to travel.

So, young person, travel. Travel wide and far. Travel boldly. Travel with full abandon.

You will regret few risks you take when it comes to this. I promise you that. There are three reasons to travel while you’re young:

1. Traveling teaches you to live an adventure

When you look back on your life, you will have moments of which you are proud and maybe a few you regret. It’s likely that the following won’t be on the latter list:

Bicycled across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Appeared on Italian TV.
Hiked a Mayan ruin.
Learned Spanish in three months.
Toured Europe by train.

They’re not on mine (fun fact: I’ve done all of the above). So what, then, will be? What choices will you regret making? Holding back. Being afraid. Making excuses. Not taking more risks. Waiting.

While you’re young, you should travel. You should take the time to see the world and taste the fullness of life. It’s worth whatever investment or money or sacrifice of time that may be required on your part.

This is not about being a tourist. It’s about experiencing true risk and adventure so you don’t have to live in fear for the rest of your life.

2. Traveling helps you encounter compassion

In your youth, you will make choices that will define you. The disciplines you begin now will be with you for the rest of your life.

Traveling will change you like little else can. It will put you in places that will force you to care for issues that are bigger than you.

If you go to southeast Asia, you may encounter the slave trade. If eastern Europe, you may see the effects of genocide and religious persecution. If Haiti, you’ll witness the the ugly side Western paternalism.

Your heart will break.

You will begin to understand that the world is both a big and small place. You will have a new-found respect for the pain and suffering that over half of the world takes for granted on a daily basis.

And you will feel more connected to your fellow human beings in a deep and lasting way. You will learn to care.

3. Traveling allows you to get some culture

While you’re still young, you should get cultured. Get to know the world and the magnificent people that fill it. There’s nothing quite like walking alongside the Colosseum or seeing Michelangelo’s David in person.

I can describe the city of San Juan and its amazing beaches and historic sites to you, but you really have to see it for yourself to experience it. You can read all the books in the world about the Great Wall of China or The Louvre, but being there is a different story.

The world is a stunning place, full of outstanding works of art. See it. Do this while you’re still young. Do not squander the time. You will never have it again.

You have a crucial opportunity to invest in the next season of your life now. Whatever you sow, you will eventually reap. Please. For your sake, do this. Because you won’t always be young. And life won’t always be just about you.

So travel. Experience the world for all it’s worth. Become a person of culture, adventure, and compassion.

“What if I’m not young?”

Travel, anyway. It may not be easy to do, but find a way to get out of your comfort zone. It’s really never too late.

But if you haven’t gotten sucked into the routine of life yet, I implore you — travel. It will never be easier than it is right now for you to do that which really matters.

(567) Atractores extraños

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:05:47 -0400

(567) Atractores extraños:

Muuchos más

Sucker

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:49 -0400

Sucker:

from Daily Squee - Cute Baby Animals

Perfect Circle WIN

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:54:00 -0400

Perfect Circle WIN:

from Hacked IRL

(1612) Ciudades a oscuras: cómo se vería el cielo desde San Francisco, Hong Kong, NY... si se apagaran todas las luces

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:26:35 -0400

(1612) Ciudades a oscuras: cómo se vería el cielo desde San Francisco, Hong Kong, NY... si se apagaran todas las luces:

For city-dwellers, the night sky can be unimpressive because of light pollution. Cities are often awash in light, masking out all but the brightest of stars and planets. Step outside a major metropolis, though, and the heavens become a sea of stars.

All photos are © Thierry Cohen courtesy of the Danziger Gallery

New York

French photographer Thierry Cohen has found a way to combine city and country views to show what urbanites have been missing. He photographs major cities, noting the precise time, angle, and latitude and longitude of his exposures. He then shoots the sky at the same angles from remote places at the same latitude, and digitally combines the images to show what the night sky would look like if we could turn out the lights.

Rio de Janiero

Los Angeles

Shanghai

Tokyo

Hong Kong

Brooklyn Bridge

Paris

San Francisco

Sao Paolo

Thierry Cohen began his professional career in 1985 and is seen as one of the pioneers of digital photography. His work has been shown at the Palais de Tokyo, and the Musee de l’Homme in Paris, and in 2008 was an official selection of the Mois de la Photo. Since 2010 he has devoted himself exclusively to his Villes Enteintes project, French for Darkened Cities.

An exhibit of Darkened Cities can been can be seen at New York’s Danziger Gallery. The show runs from March 28 to May 4, 2013.

TED: Andres Lozano: Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off - Andres Lozano (2013)

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:56:22 -0400

TED: Andres Lozano: Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off - Andres Lozano (2013):

from TEDTalks (video) by TEDTalks

Deep brain stimulation is becoming very precise. This technique allows surgeons to place electrodes in almost any area of the brain, and turn them up or down — like a radio dial or thermostat — to correct dysfunction. Andres Lozano offers a dramatic look at emerging techniques, in which a woman with Parkinson’s instantly stops shaking and brain areas eroded by Alzheimer’s are brought back to life. (Filmed at TEDxCaltech.)

Original video source (AndresLozano_2013X.mp4)

(1116) Bosque flotante en un barco abandonado (ENG)

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:14:45 -0400

(1116) Bosque flotante en un barco abandonado (ENG):

Lauren Davis

Sydney’s Homebush Bay is home to many a broken and forgotten ship, but at least one of those derelict boats still houses a bit of life. The SS Ayrfield, long decommissioned, has a mangrove forest growing from its corpse.

Originally launched as the SS Corrimal, the Ayrfield was built in the UK in 1911 and the Australian government used it during WWII to transport American troops and supplies. The Miller Steamship Company bought the ship in 1951 (and named it the Ayrfield), and it operated as a collier between Newcastle and Sydney until 1972, when it was decommissioned and sent to Homebush Bay, which was, at the time, a ship breaking area.

Amidst the rest of the ghostly ship hulls, the Ayrfield stands out thanks to its current inhabitants, which add a bit of green to the rusty ship graveyard.

Photo by Jason Baker.

[via My Modern Met]

Maybe It's Time for a Haircut

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:41:02 -0400

Maybe It's Time for a Haircut:

from Very Demotivational Posters That Demotivate Us

jtotheizzoe: Washcloth … In … Spaaaaaaaaaaaace!! Chris...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:53:22 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Washcloth … In … Spaaaaaaaaaaaace!!

Chris Hadfield does the blobby shake to test what happens when you wring out a wet washcloth in space.

You’re gonna want to check out the full video, trust me.

Eres más lento que el experimento de Parnell

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:47:32 -0400

Eres más lento que el experimento de Parnell:

from Amazings by Naukas

En 1927, el profesor Thomas Parnell (5 julio 1881 – 1 septiembre 1948) intentó demostrar que existen sustancias que parecen sólidas pero en realidad son extremadamente viscosas. Para ello, utilizó un embudo especial y brea. A temperatura ambiente, este residuo de hidrocarburos tiene toda la apariencia de un sólido que puedes romper en pedazos con un martillo. Pero en realidad es un líquido, aunque 100 mil millones de veces más viscoso que el agua. El experimento comenzó cuando Parnell vertió brea en un embudo y esperó tres años, hasta 1930, para que se asentara. Luego, cortó la parte inferior del embudo y pacientemente observó para que cayera la primera gota. Muy pacientemente, ya que debió esperar hasta 1938. Desde entonces, cada 10 años, aproximadamente, una nueva gota se forma y demuestra la hipótesis de Parnell.

Por cierto, el de la foto es John Mainstone, actual custodio del experimento. Como curiosidad añadir que el verdadero creador del experimento, Thomas Parnell, recibió de forma póstuma el IgNobel en física en octubre de 2005. Casi mejor que no viviera para recibir tal “honor”.

13 Rue

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:41:16 -0400

13 Rue:

(950) StackOverflow - Ciclos en software de árbol genealógico [EN]

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:38:25 -0400

(950) StackOverflow - Ciclos en software de árbol genealógico [EN]:

I am the developer of some family tree software (written in C++ and Qt). I had no problems until one of my customers mailed me a bug report. The problem is that he has two children with his own daughter, and, as a result, he can’t use my software because of errors.

—-

However this format contains some severe misconceptions about what a family tree really looks like.

It contains many issues, such as incompatibility with same sex relations, incest, etc… Which in real life happens more often than you’d imagine (especially when going back in time to the 1700-1800).

[…]

(1543) Dragon Ball Multiverse (Cómic alternativo)

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:25:13 -0400

(1543) Dragon Ball Multiverse (Cómic alternativo):

En nuestro universo, Goku ganó a todos los rivales. Ahora le proponen combatir en un torneo contra los enemigos más poderosos de todos los universos paralelos, aquellos que salieron victoriosos frente a él.

Mola.

E infinitamente mejor que Dragon Ball GT, que sí es oficial…

(5041) Casas falsas que esconden líneas de metro [EN]

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:21:33 -0400

(5041) Casas falsas que esconden líneas de metro [EN]:

Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…

On a street in Brooklyn that takes you towards the river, where the cobblestones begin paving the road, there is a townhouse that deserves a second look. Despite its impeccable brickwork, number 58 Joralemon Street is not like the other houses. Behind its blacked out windows, no one is at home; no one has been at home for more than 100 years. In fact, number 58 is not a home at all, but a secret subway exit and ventilation point disguised as a Greek Revival brownstone.

Artistic interpretation by Sean Kelly for the NYT

The house stands directly nine stories above the New York City subway tracks for lines 4 and 5, which carries passengers from the nearby station Borough Hall in Brooklyn under the East River over to Manhattan Island. If you approach the front door and peak through the crack, you’ll eyeball a bleakly lit windowless room with concrete flooring and a metal bunker-style door that could easily lead to a bat cave. Every so often, neighbours have reported¹ seeing men dressed in special work suits in the middle of the night hanging around the stoop at number 58.

The property was once a private residence dating back to 1847, according to the Willowtown Association, but in 1908, as the first underwater subway tunnel connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn was being constructed, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York acquired the house. The windows were fitted with unsightly industrial steel shutters as the site was converted into a subway ventilator as part of a vast network for the tunnels below. For decades, vented air simply poured out from the windows according to neighbours¹, who knew it only as the “Shaft House”.

But in the 1990s, the MTA decided to be a little more neighbourly. When new residents moved in next door, the authority cleaned up the unused backyard at number 58 and offered it to their new neighbours as an extension to double the size of their garden at the reasonable price of $200 a month. Attractive winding vines also now cover the smoothed-over bricked-up windows at the back of the house. In 1999, urged by the local neighborhood and the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the MTA fully restored the historic facade. The industrial steel shutter vents, from where smoke once billowed into the streets, were permanently shut and replaced with sleek opaque window panes. The vents found their new home high up on the building’s roof. Today, the value of number 58 Joralemon St is $2.8 million according to a 2010 estimate².

View through the crack of the front door at number 58

But let’s get back to the bat cave. One neighbour who was lucky enough to be shown inside the Shaft House by MTA officials said it was reminiscent of “something out of A Clockwork Orange… it was open and cavernous, with catwalks going back and forth, this way and that, and somewhere down below the trains going by.”

It’s not exactly clear when number 58 Joralemon Street became an emergency exit in addition to its usage as a fan plant, but the likelihood is that it happened post 9/11 when the threat of a fire in the subway tunnel became more prominent. In the event of an emergency, passengers would have to climb up the grim metal staircase that plunges nine stories down to the tunnels below. When they reached the top, there would be the windowless room with a door, and if they opened that door, it would lead them to a typical New York City townhouse stoop, as if they’d exited through a mystic portal from the underworld.

…

Next, we head to London in Bayswater where an up-market residential street just a few minutes walk from the vast greens of Hyde Park cleverly masks another portal to the city’s underworld and the world’s first underground railway.

In the 1860s, a tube line passing through Paddington and Bayswater was constructed and incidentally ran its path directly under 23 and 24 Leinster Terrace. The two five story houses had to be demolished in order to dig through the tunnels but once the finished tunnel was covered, it was decided that the houses wouldn’t be rebuilt … entirely that is.

Today, you’ll see these rather smart looking townhouses in place next to each other, but if you wander round the back of 23 and 24 Leinster Terrace and look over the wall, you’ll find the buildings are nothing more than 5-ft thick facades that disguise a massive gaping hole into the underground.

The old London underground trains used to be powered by steam and so the gaping hole of open tracks became a rather convenient way to vent air from the subway.

There’s a great little story about an alleged famous hoax³ in the 1930s involving the two houses. A fraudster managed to make a ‘small fortune’ by selling tickets for a grand charity ball at 10 guineas a ticket. When guests arrived dressed to the nines at the ball’s stated location, 23/24 Leinster Terrace, they were in for a cheeky surprise when they knocked on the fake door only to realise they had been well and truly conned!

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But where is the original fake house in Paris disguising a giant ventilation chimney for the Métro?

According to the BDLG blog, in the novel by Italian philosopher, Umberto Eco, entitled Foucault’s Pendulum, there is an obscure dialogue between two characters about a house in Paris that seems to be hiding something. “[People] walk by and they don’t know the truth,” writes Eco, “that the house is a fake. It’s a facade, an enclosure with no room, no interior. It is really a chimney, a ventilation flue that serves to release the vapors of the regional Métro. And once you know this you feel you are standing at the mouth of the underworld…”

The novel might be fictional but this sounds like good mystery that needs solving (any tip-offs are most welcome)!

FOUND !! (Updated)

One of my brilliant readers sent in this tip from a blog called Paris by Cellphone that has found the fake house in Paris. It’s located at 145 rue la Fayette in the 10th arrondissement.

“The building 145, rue la Fayette is only a front. Literally. The balcony is there, the door is there, but no building waits behind it. The false facade is there only to hide a giant ventilation chimney for the metro,” the blogger behind Paris by Cellphone writes.

image via here

And he even has the Google image to prove it….

Before you go, let’s see one more Paris has to offer! This one pictured below, located on Rue du Temple and Rue Chapon in the Marais, is not actually a secret passageway to the Paris metro, but an artist’s trompe l’oeil. Below is a picture of the location before the clever trickery was installed in 2006…

Then:

Now:

The facade was installed by artist Julien Berthier one Saturday morning at 7 o’clock in the morning on a ‘blind wall’ in the 3rd arrondissement. The façade, abiding by the local architectural codes, occupies 10 cm of public space, and was simply mounted and glued by Julien and his team. Many years later, the fake address is still there and the city services regularly cleaned off the graffiti.

Images via Julien Berthier, see more of his work via his website.

What’s hiding in your city?

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5:::

And it occurred to me that these must be holographic viral projections from an autonomous continuum that was somehow intersecting my own

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:51:54 -0400

And it occurred to me that these must be holographic viral projections from an autonomous continuum that was somehow intersecting my own:

from but does it float by but does it float

Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard, Rendered with the artist’s WebGL 3D fractal creator Title: Terence McKenna Folkert

enefecto: Edificio abandonado de la época comunista en...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:19:41 -0400

enefecto:

Edificio abandonado de la época comunista en Bulgaria.

Monument to a troubled past: Inside the enormous crumbling communist HQ Bulgaria cannot afford to maintain or demolish