February 2012
16 posts
January 2012
5 posts
What Apollo 11 Astronauts Did Right Before Neil...
Aldrin: You've got a good picture, huh?
Houston: There's a great deal of contrast in it, and currently, it's upside-down on our monitor, but we can make out a fair amount of detail.
Aldrin: Will you verify the position - the opening I ought to have on the camera?
Houston: Stand by.
[Armstrong begins to descend.]
Houston: We can see you coming down the ladder now.
Armstrong: Okay, I just checked getting back up to that first step, Buzz. It's -- not even collapsed too far, but it's adequate to get back up... It takes a pretty good little jump.
Houston: Buzz, this is Houston. F/2 - 1/160th second for shadow photography on the sequence camera.
Aldrin: Okay.
Armstrong: I'm at the foot of the ladder. The [Lunar Module] footpads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 inches, although the surface appears to be very fine grained as you get close to it. It's almost like a powder. Down there, it's very fine. I'm going to step off the [Lunar Module] now. THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.
November 2011
2 posts
July 2011
16 posts
You should date an illiterate girl. →
mols:
Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Take her outside when the...
The Urban Speaker: Call it Today
coffeeatmidnight:
The Urban Speaker is a new art project consisting of a speaker mounted on a pole in New York’s Tompkins Square Park. Simply call 979-997-3041 and your voice will be broadcast to the passersby on New York’s streets. Say something nice.
Via Wooster Collective
June 2011
3 posts
8 Lessons for Creating Social Impact →
crookedindifference:
Have “design thinking” and “social innovation” become permanently intertwined?
Undervalue Your Own Ideas. They may seem pretty clever to you, but chances are that they won’t work the way that you are imagining. Trust me on this one.
Don’t Pursue Perfection. Keep close to the messy realities on the ground. And test your ideas while they are rough (they will likely stay...
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
September 2010
2 posts
I don't follow enough cool things. Anybody have...
August 2010
1 post
