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‘1984′ in photographs, one word, one day at a time. – Aleks Krotoski, maker van de geweldige BBC-serie Virtual Revolution, zet elke dag een woord uit Orwell’s klassieker online.

Best in show: Erika Iris Simmons – FrancescoMugnai.com – Graphic Design Inspiration and Web Design Trends.

Foto gemaakt door Mohammad Abdullah, via Looking into the Past « Pillar Box Post.

Hier staat een goede beschrijving van de webpagina die hieronder gelinkt wordt.  In deze zin vertel ik waarom juist deze link zo lezenswaardig is. Tot slot nog even een bruggetje naar een actuele gebeurtenis en een linkje naar een gerelateerd stukje video.

This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post

Show Off (english) on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

WWIII Propaganda Posters by Brian Moore.

Not every actor can have the filmography of Samuel L. Jackson or a Meryl Streep. Some folks only have one or two roles under their belts and those roles walk that fine line between sad and amazing. These are those IMDB pages.

With few people traveling to work there are no morning or evening rush hours—no streets crowded with cars, buses, and people. Gone are the oily smells and fumes of traffic. When people travel, they go by electric car, bus, or train.

In 2010 people can live and breathe in clean, fresh surroundings, but it was not always like this.

2010: Living In the Future | the book. (via Ben & Fiona)

Untold numbers of guns and so much testosterone that mixed audiences at their test screenings have reportedly been emerging with beards and an unexpected inability to multitask.

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Why can’t the 30- to 50-year-olds of Hollywood just concentrate more on making good new action movies and stop trying to recapture their bloody childhoods?

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And at the end of the trailer, that’s all you sense that they’re promising their audience: a $100m excuse to use a really good theme tune.

Anna Pickard in The Guardian over de nieuwe A-team trailer.

WALTER
In sooth, then, faithful friend, this was a rug of value? Thou wouldst call it not a rug among ordinary rugs, but a rug of purpose? A star in a firmament, in step with the fashion alike to the Whitsun morris-dance? A worthy rug, a rug of consequence, sir?

THE KNAVE
It was of consequence, I should think; verily, it tied the room together, gather’d its qualities as the sweet lovers’ spring grass doth the morning dew or the rough scythe the first of autumn harvests. It sat between the four sides of the room, making substance of a square, respecting each wall in equal harmony, in geometer’s cap; a great reckoning in a little room. Verily, it transform’d the room from the space between four walls presented, to the harbour of a man’s monarchy.

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, by Adam Bertocci