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The Unabomber’s cabin is in Sacramento? It seems like I knew that once. Weird.
The Unabomber’s cabin, sitting in an FBI storage facility on an airforce base in Sacramento, photographed by Richard Barnes. Sure looks out of its element; as Barnes says, “the cabin represents a particularly American ideal of rural self sufficiency and independence gone horribly awry”, and its context is sort of the opposite of that. I wonder if it still sits there, waiting.
Via Time Slider »
Etherpad is an online text editor that saves every keystroke — so far, so good. But it also allows you to play them back, giving you a birds-eye view of how a document came to be. This is how Paul Graham wrote Startups in 13 Sentences. Watching someone else write is interesting enough, but I can imagine playing back the evolution of one of your own pieces of writing is absolutely mesmerizing. Consider all it could tell you about how you write: it could potentially improve your writing considerably by making you aware of how you write, or else it could cripple you by showing you how much crap you turn out for every word of decent prose.
This is really, really cool.
Slate In Brief »
95 percent less verbiage. Whoever is doing this: good idea.
This is such a great idea. I’m pretty sure it’s more than 95 percent less. I hope it keeps up.
The Taxonomy of Cute, by Nicole Peterson (she’s the one who made those new covers for Dante’s Divine comedy that have been making the rounds on the internet lately).
Like beauty, everyone knows cuteness when they see it. But can cuteness be broken down to its basic properties? I compiled a list of what I found to be the fundamental characteristics of cuteness, what can be seen in anything from kittens to Volkswagen Beetles.
This is for Nora, the biggest fan of Cute Overload I know.
“The Genographic Project’s findings are also consistent with the idea - held for some years now - that modern humans had a close brush with extinction in the evolutionary biblical past. The number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 8 before numbers began to expand again in the Late Stone Age after the flood.”
Human line ‘nearly split in two’ (via dailymeh) [my edits]
