Pawnbrokers sign (via sixth land)
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I’ve got the full set of Konami models. I endorse this image!
SHADO Big Night Out (via Franco Brambilla)
One of the many toys I have in my office to distract me from the dangers of getting any work done is the SHADO truck pictured to the left. The roof flips over and there’s a cannon that shoots little rubber-tipped darts. I also have the SHADO jet (not pictured, sold separately), although it’s missing the missile.
“The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world’s fifth most-popular website keeps growing”
Sandmannchen – Germany’s favourite TV character. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
The citizens of the German Democratic Republic used to habitually tune into West German TV despite the risk of being caught doing so. But once a day at 7pm, millions adjusted their sets to receive the East German channel DDR 1 for the latest exploits of a cartoon character who has become a national cultural icon, uniting East and West Germans like little else.
(via The Sandmannchen, Germany’s cutest communist, turns 50 | World news | The Guardian
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Sign the petition to the Prime Minister to abolish the new Digital Economy Bill’s ‘three strikes’ provisions http://tinyurl.com/yf552cg
7 / 13 The shuttle’s payload bay, vertical stabiliser, orbital manoeuvring system (OMS) pods and docking mechanism with Earth in the background Photograph: NASA (via Spacewalkers work on the international space station | Science | guardian.co.uk )
Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Closing of the 30-inch-thick, 430 ton L3 door on the I side, ALICE experiment, on June 11th, 2008. (Mona Schweizer, © CERN) #
“This image, from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows boulders that have rolled downhill to the bottom of the 45 kilometer-wide Rutherford crater.
This hi-res image is 510 meters across. See the big rock at the top, left of center? The one casting a long shadow? That’s about the size of my yard, and I don’t have a particularly large piece of property. Some of the rocks in this image are smaller than a car.”
Michael Wolf took 100 photos of people living in Hong Kong’s oldest public housing estate. Each flat is 100 square feet. Almost every room has the same kind of metal bunk bed. They almost all have a TV, electric fan, and rice cooker.
