September 2011
14 posts
“I’m glad all those STEM folks invented the internet so you could post bs commentary about how we’d be better off w/o them.”
—comment by username denver2 on Lesson of a falling satellite - CNN.com
CIA's Fake Vaccination Campaign to Find Osama Bin Laden Raises Public-Health Fears: Scientific American →
scientificamerican.com
“The vaccination campaign, for hepatitis B, went door-to-door, with the hopes of gathering DNA from one of bin Laden’s children to verify the location of his compound.”
Allegedly.
Livery Company →
en.wikipedia.org
If you’re looking for names of traditional occupations or trades, the list of livery companies of London is a good place to start.
salters, tallow chandlers, cordwainers, poulters, tylers, turners, farriers, loriners …
Nazis, needlework . . . →
guardian.co.uk
“Around decorative swastikas and a banal inscription saying he completed his work in December 1941, the British officer stitched a border of irregular dots and dashes. Over the next four years his work was displayed at the four camps in Germany where he was imprisoned, and his Nazi captors never once deciphered the messages threaded in Morse code: ‘God Save the King’ and ‘Fuck Hitler’.”
-The Guardian, “Nazis, needlework, and my dad”
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin, close of 1st Ed. (via synthemesc)
