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Evelyn McHale

July 29th, 2011 photography Linkage | 0 Comments | | ##

On 1 May 1947, Evelyn McHale lept to her death from the Empire State Building. Here is her photograph taken just minutes after landing - looking absolutely beautiful:

From LIFE Magazine:
On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make […]

MTV News report on a new thing called the Internet

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MTV News on this thing called ‘the Internet’ in 1995.
“The world wide phenomenon called “The Internet” is exploding…”

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List of Google Banned Words

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Full list of banned words by Google.

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SELECTED

July 28th, 2011 photography Linkage | 0 Comments | | ##

SELECTED - A series of animated GIFs in which the principal subject has been removed and replaced by a “marching-ants”-style selection border similar to the ones you’d see in GIMP or Photoshop.

Earth has a stalker.
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found the very first asteroid that (more or less) shares an orbit with Earth! Called 2010 TK7, this asteroid is about 300 meters (roughly 1000 feet) across, and is the first in an up-to-now theoretical class of objects called Earth Trojans.