slow clap
(via THE MANIFESTO MANIFESTO - Kim Mok)
Brilliant
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
- Robert A. Heinlein (1973), Time Enough For Love

“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
- Robert A. Heinlein (1952), The Rolling Stones

“Democracy can’t work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that’s all there is — so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”
- Robert A. Heinlein (1966), Glory Road
Related:
“Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides?”
- Robert A. Heinlein (1978), The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”
- Robert A. Heinlein (1958), Methuselah’s Children

“If you really want to know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”
- Robert A. Heinlein (1957), The Door Into Summer
fucking nerds
Tim Knoll BMX (ridiculous) freestyle
Edward Horsford’s high-speed photography freezes the spherical innards of water balloons — just as the balloon skins break open, and just before they splash to the floor. He works at night in his garden in London, using flashes to light the action. Amazingly, he works alone. So how does he do it? And doesn’t he get soaked?
Amazing.
Print Ad of the Day: McDonald’s promotes a high-brow burger called “The M” with a stack of faux-books arranged to resemble a cheeseburger.
[copyranter.]
This is actually kind of genius.
(Source: thedailywhat)
Snowmobile tracks crisscross the surface of a melting pond in Kiruna, Sweden.
wow. want.
(via thedailywhat)
Farmer assistant Mariusz Strzelecki reaps hops during the early morning hours in Ebrantshausen near Ingolstadt, southern Germany.
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.
The answer by one...
iPad + Skype + retro handset = ridiculously fun mobile phone - Boing Boing
Must resist buying first gen purchase