Gale force winds to the face
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A Chart that Reveals How Science Fiction Futures Changed Over Time
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"Bluesmen were clever, ambitious, and quick to adapt to changing conditions. And their conditions were changed forever by a mail-order catalog."

How Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues

Let’s hope so. America has the hard-nosed determination to try this and see it through. It’s just a matter of when.

I’ve wanted to see something like this for a while. Watch what happens to the trash created by your lunch in LA.

"The typical instance of Somali piracy isn’t that different from what a young Julius Caesar experienced when he was kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom on his way home from political exile in Asia Minor."

via the atlantic

Also, a post script: Oh, and one more thing about Caesar. Plutarch tells us that after he was ransomed he got some ships, raided the pirates, and had them all crucified.