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Saturday April 21, 2007
Around the world Saturday
- The Met’s New Greek and Roman Galleries. Click “Panoramas of the objects,” then “Marble head of a youth,” then “Rotate.” (via Artblog)
- Rabbit in your Headlights video.
- The Flying Dutchman.
- Subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale.
- Infant cages and babies sunbathing on nursery lawn in the Israeli settlement of Gat. February 12, 1946.
- Chicago & North Western railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. December 1942.
- The Hihokan Erotic Museum, Japan.
- Calamita Cosmica, here and here.
- A discussion of the proper uses of hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes. This is important.
- “My dead grandmother’s final wish was to be able to occasionally come back to life as a man and come to parties with me and stuff and I said, ‘All right but you have to look cool,’ and then she has the nerve to show up like this going, ‘Whaddya say, eh? I told you I could pull it off.’”
- Narco diving (#30).
- “The Church of Scientology has dispatched ‘ministers’ to provide ‘grief counseling’ for shell-shocked youth at Virginia Tech – but critics suspect the sect hopes to convert the vulnerable students."
- 32 Chinese factory workers were buried in white-hot molten steel.
- The World of Wal-Mart map.
- Beijing pollen. (via 好的. 等一会儿.)
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That pollen video is pretty amazing. Not good for allergies.