“J. G. Ballard was sent to cover the Fyre Festival.” That is all. [boing]
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“J. G. Ballard was sent to cover the Fyre Festival.” That is all. [boing]
I always love it when the weird get going, and turn something that ought to be everyday into something special and funny and strange.
Now, you can show your foes your courageous trollishness with a few mouse-clicks over the internet:
More playing with UV dye.
I’m going to give you a spoiler under the bar; if you were going to see La Haine [imdb] without my telling you to, go ahead and do so then come back and comment on this posting.
UV Dye + water, video.
I’m going to be on the road the next couple days so my availability through thursday will be spotty. My laptop died this afternoon and I don’t think I’ll be doing any long text production using an iOs keyboard.
Various links of weirdness led me to this collection of wonders:
This is cool stuff: (Via Atlas Obscura) dynamically creating fantastical maps of places that never existed. I remember creating maps when I was doing D&D worlds; it’s harder than you’d expect, if you’re trying to make something that looks semi-realistic.
The idea that you can tell things about a person from their appearance underlies the entire point of dressing up, wearing make-up, and being concerned with our appearance. There are probably some things you might be able to assume from a person’s looks, but it’s still going to be pretty unreliable: you can’t tell someone’s a terrorist because they “look muslim” because “looking muslim” is a vague concept to begin with.
What about people who look like criminals?