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mind-expanding, mind-boggling, mind-numbing & mindless stuff, selected by 'Og Penson', citizen of Berlin

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

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What a time to be alive.

“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.

The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.

Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)

I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it

just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone

Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll

DEADLINE: You’re 80. Do you still have that fire to get right back behind the camera and get the next one going?

SCORSESE: Got to. Got to. Yeah. I wish I could take a break for eight weeks and make a film at the same time [laughs]. The whole world has opened up to me, but it’s too late. It’s too late.

DEADLINE: What do you mean by that?

SCORSESE: I’m old. I read stuff. I see things. I want to tell stories, and there’s no more time. Kurosawa, when he got his Oscar, when George [Lucas] and Steven [Spielberg] gave it to him, he said, “I’m only now beginning to see the possibility of what cinema could be, and it’s too late.” He was 83. At the time, I said, “What does he mean?” Now I know what he means.

Star Trek + Social Commentary (context in the captions)

This is the reason star trek exists. This is why it is important. Without this there is no point of making it, you can add all the flashing lights and CG explosions and half naked women you like but without this, right here, you are not making Star Trek.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), dir. Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Ah, forever and ever one of the greatest bits ever put to film.

Needs the first part!  It was where I, as a wee lad of 16,  first heard the words “Anarchosyndicalist Commune”

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Not even queueing this, making SURE it’s posted for coronation day.

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Star Trek TNG characters and whether they'd rat me out for farting on the bridge

(for the sake of argument let's assume it was a dank, zeppelin-sized fart I absolutely had to let out before it Hindenburg’d my intestinal tract, and not just me being rude for no reason)

  • Beverly: doesn't rat me out. Probably messages me privately later to politely suggest I stop by sick bay
  • Wesley: doesn't rat me out on purpose, but whispers to me way too loudly and still gets me caught
  • Geordi: rats me out accidentally after seeing an “unusual gaseous emission” on his VISOR and announcing it to the crew, but feels bad about it
  • Worf: rats me out without hesitation (and tells me my flatulence was “dishonourable”)
  • Pulaski: rats me out to everyone and offers to prescribe me an anti-gas med
  • Riker: rats me out to the captain but only if it's funny
  • Deanna: doesn't rat me out but subtly indicates to me she knows I did it, and 100% gossips with Will about it later
  • Data: doesn't rat me out but if someone else does he gives everyone an impromptu treatise on flatulence. Tries to teach himself how to fart later that week
  • Picard: does not rat me out but calls me into his ready room to give me a stern speech about “Starfleet decorum”
  • Ro: doesn't rat me out but tracks me down in Ten Forward after to ask if that was me
  • Barclay: too awkward to rat me out and accidentally creates a distraction for me by going into a coughing fit when he smells it
  • Yar: if Picard asks about it she'll rat me out; otherwise she won't, but she does turn to me and say “Seriously?”
  • Lwaxana: loudly announces to everyone within earshot that I farted and I was hoping no one would notice, but it's okay because it wasn't my fault for PASSING GAS IN FRONT OF A DAUGHTER OF THE FIFTH HOUSE OF BETAZED, THE HOLDER OF THE SACRED CHALICE OF RIXX AND HEIR TO THE
  • Q: says “ooh, how gauche!” and then either makes it so the entire ship can smell my fart OR makes my farts smell like wedding cake, depending on his mood

Edit: NOW AVAILABLE IN DS9 VERSION and TOS/AOS VERSION (and LD EDITION!)

The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was built gradually—building on top of building—over time. Without a single architect, the ungoverned and most densely populated district became a haven for drugs, crime and prostitution until it was demolished in 1993. Photo documentation of the site exists but for the most part much of the inner-workings of the city remained a mystery.

Perhaps due to its proximity, Japan, in particular, developed a keen interest towards Kowloon. Its demolition in 1993 was broadcast on national television. But watching the footage, what most spectators didn’t realize was that up until the night before demolition a team of Japanese researchers were taking precise measurements and documenting the vacated city. Their findings were compiled into a book that, among other things, featured this panoramic cross section of the city depicting what life was like inside. You can read more about the book on Spoon & Tamago, and if you look hard enough, a few rare copies of it are available online.