Well, they’re no Cleatus, but these football-playing robots give new meaning to the term “gridiron”.
(Source: Wired)
A must-read in general. One fantastic response:I think that it’s important to consider the implications that all of this unpaid (and likely stemming from the upper-class) labor has on society as well, especially within the industries that largely require entire chunks of time and resources from those aspiring to join them. Particularly within the public sector, one glaring example of this is the field of legislative aide job opportunities that are often only handed out to those who have toiled away for months (and indeed sometimes years) on end as campaign volunteers.
This creates a setup where an entire profession (any job offering Congressional support) effectively shuts out the very large proportion of the college-aged population who do not have parents (or some other richer benefactor) that can afford to subsidize living costs for however long they need to gain the extensive and unpaid experience necessary to enter the good graces of a Congressman or Senator. The implications of this are far-reaching and structural; and reinforce the culture of privilege already rampant in Washington D.C. where not only do federal lawmakers themselves often lack valuable perspective on the issues plaguing lower- and middle class Americans that constitute the majority of the nation’s citizenry, but also with the advisors and assistants working for them, who by virtue of being able to land their jobs in the first place already were fortunate enough to have been born into the nation’s wealthy economic minority. This creates a cycle of dissonance between the real world economic reality that Americans face and what the legislative class in Washington understands the proper solutions are to those very problems.
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Infographics Say It All in Facebook’s Latest SEC Filing
In the amendment Facebook filed Monday to its S-1 SEC filing, some of the best information about the company is embedded in the infographics it used to illustrate its points. They show a company that’s booming, with rampant growth of users and revenue, but they also show a behemoth that’s saturated much of the globe save for one glaringly dark patch where China sits. […]
Look at the mass of darkness where China is located, the stark border of Russia, the largely un-Facebook penetrated Africa, and the bright slash of Indonesia (at one point,Indonesian became the most-used Asian language on Facebook). That dislocation between population and Facebook users bears out some of the projections the company follows with in its filing, in particular its expansion plans.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Facebook]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2y9n9VOSc1qcokc4o1_r1_500.jpg)
Infographics Say It All in Facebook’s Latest SEC Filing
In the amendment Facebook filed Monday to its S-1 SEC filing, some of the best information about the company is embedded in the infographics it used to illustrate its points. They show a company that’s booming, with rampant growth of users and revenue, but they also show a behemoth that’s saturated much of the globe save for one glaringly dark patch where China sits. […]
Look at the mass of darkness where China is located, the stark border of Russia, the largely un-Facebook penetrated Africa, and the bright slash of Indonesia (at one point,Indonesian became the most-used Asian language on Facebook). That dislocation between population and Facebook users bears out some of the projections the company follows with in its filing, in particular its expansion plans.
Read more at The Atlantic Wire. [Image: Facebook]
People in Belfast bidding farewell to the ship they just built - the Titanic, 1912.
A great new peace agent: The Titanic (1911)
Titanic newsreel with authentic footage (1912)
Titanic ship cross-section (1912)
April 14, 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
Only one week before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln completed his tour of the Confederate capital at Richmond, following its fall to Union forces earlier that month. The Confederacy was on its way out, and the Confederates knew it… and Confederate sympathizers like John Wilkes Booth knew it, as well. Prior to Appomattox House, Booth had plotted to kidnap Lincoln, whose “appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy” he viewed with disgust. Once General Lee surrendered, however, Booth realized that kidnapping would be futile; only assassination would suffice (to accomplish what, exactly, is unclear), and so he set out to murder the man he accused of trying “to crush out or try to crush out, slavery by robbery, rape, slaughter, and bought armies”.
On April 13, Booth watched Lincoln give a speech in which he declared his support of suffrage for former slaves, which only enraged Booth further. The next day, after shooting Lincoln in Ford’s Theater, he jumped out of the president’s box and shouted “Sic semper tyrannis!“ or “Thus always to tyrants”. He undoubtedly saw himself as the Brutus to Lincoln’s Juliuis Caesar, and his actions as nothing less than heroic (and some agreed with him, both in the North and South).
The president died the next morning, Booth fled south, and Americans, whether anti- or pro-Lincoln, were left in a stupor. Abraham Lincoln, having already proved himself a strange and unique specimen of a man and leader, now held the added distinction of being America’s first president to die at the hands of an assassin.
April 12, 1945. FDR dies.
LBJ is devastated. Roosevelt would remain a role model for the rest of Johnson’s life.
LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton, 02/10/1965. 43-8-WH65. Public domain.
![Equipe française des journalistes contre Daily Mail [football] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol] / The team of the French journalists against the Daily Mail one.
@credits](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dj4akCA21r4iw2yo1_1280.jpg)
Equipe française des journalistes contre Daily Mail [football] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol] / The team of the French journalists against the Daily Mail one.
(Source: frenchhistory)
Lucie & Simon’s ‘Silent World’ (New York without people in it)
Be sure to click through to see similar work of Paris and Beijing.
via Curbed
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Was American Pie More Influential Than Titanic?
In the late ’90s, a screenplay made the studio rounds bearing the unwieldy title, “Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Most Readers Will Probably Hate But I Think You Will Love.” That’s a cheeky move for a young screenwriter, risking having his work tossed on the thanks-but-no-thanks pile by overworked script readers fatigued with first-timers’ glib attempts to catch the eye. But the script sold, and writer Adam Herz’s modest little homage to the movies of his youth, and to his youth itself, ended up grossing nearly a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide, spawning three theatrical sequels and four straight-to-video sequels, and providing the primary source of income for comic actor Eugene Levy for the past 13 years. That “Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy” was 1999’s American Pie.
Two years before that, James Cameron made good on years of obsession with shipwrecks by dramatizing the most terrible wreck of them all, using the tragedy of the Titanic to frame a steadfastly old-fashioned epic love story. His Titanic aimed to be the millennial Gone With the Wind, with the doomed ocean liner making collateral damage of its young lovers as surely as the sinking confederacy helped scotch whatever chance Scarlett and Rhett might have had at a happy ending. Cameron’s 1997 film struck audiences, particularly young women, like few could have predicted, and it held the title of biggest moneymaker in history for more than a decade.
Both of these films are back on the marquee this week. Titanic, the box office behemoth and the Oscar juggernaut, has gotten itself a 3D makeover just in time for the impending 100th anniversary of the vessel’s downfall. The more modestly proportionedAmerican Pie brings back its original cast of sex-crazed hijinks-makers, now husbands, wives, and parents, for an American Reunion. Cameron’s film is bigger in nearly every quantifiable sense. But more than a decade after their releases, which really looms larger on the cultural horizon?
Read more. [Images: Paramount/Universal]
What say you, Tumblr? American Pie or Titanic?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1x8yaOjHH1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Was American Pie More Influential Than Titanic?
In the late ’90s, a screenplay made the studio rounds bearing the unwieldy title, “Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million That Most Readers Will Probably Hate But I Think You Will Love.” That’s a cheeky move for a young screenwriter, risking having his work tossed on the thanks-but-no-thanks pile by overworked script readers fatigued with first-timers’ glib attempts to catch the eye. But the script sold, and writer Adam Herz’s modest little homage to the movies of his youth, and to his youth itself, ended up grossing nearly a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide, spawning three theatrical sequels and four straight-to-video sequels, and providing the primary source of income for comic actor Eugene Levy for the past 13 years. That “Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy” was 1999’s American Pie.
Two years before that, James Cameron made good on years of obsession with shipwrecks by dramatizing the most terrible wreck of them all, using the tragedy of the Titanic to frame a steadfastly old-fashioned epic love story. His Titanic aimed to be the millennial Gone With the Wind, with the doomed ocean liner making collateral damage of its young lovers as surely as the sinking confederacy helped scotch whatever chance Scarlett and Rhett might have had at a happy ending. Cameron’s 1997 film struck audiences, particularly young women, like few could have predicted, and it held the title of biggest moneymaker in history for more than a decade.
Both of these films are back on the marquee this week. Titanic, the box office behemoth and the Oscar juggernaut, has gotten itself a 3D makeover just in time for the impending 100th anniversary of the vessel’s downfall. The more modestly proportionedAmerican Pie brings back its original cast of sex-crazed hijinks-makers, now husbands, wives, and parents, for an American Reunion. Cameron’s film is bigger in nearly every quantifiable sense. But more than a decade after their releases, which really looms larger on the cultural horizon?
Read more. [Images: Paramount/Universal]
What say you, Tumblr? American Pie or Titanic?
