chris dannen
I write about tech, design & business for FastCompany magazine. This is a blog for all miscellaneous stuff I find in my junkets across the Web.
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‘Dead of Night’ by Norman Duenas
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Back To The Body Shop by Brandon Ortwein
Jumping Gigawatts! With this body shop mix up it gives new meaning to the saying “jumping through...
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Antarctica, 1961: A Soviet Surgeon Has To Remove His Own Appendix
If you think House and the guy who James Franco played in 127 Hours are tough, you haven’t heard of Leonid Rogozov.
In 1961, Rogozov was stationed at a newly constructed Russian base in Antarctica. The 12 men inside were cut off from the outside world by the polar winter by March of that year. In April, the 27-year-old Rogozov began to feel ill, very ill. His symptoms were classic: he had acute appendicitis. “He knew that if he was to survive he had to undergo an operation,” the British Medical Journal recounted. “But he was in the frontier conditions of a newly founded Antarctic colony on the brink of the polar night. Transportation was impossible. Flying was out of the question, because of the snowstorms. And there was one further problem: he was the only physician on the base.”
Read the rest at The Atlantic
(via tedr)
I get interesting cabbies. This one went on about all the different kinds of women you can get in Austin, and their various places of work.
tedr:
Keith Moon’s hotel room.
It’s like seeing a picture from Mt Olympus after a fight between gods. A mythical sight I never thought I’d see.
Sexual things not allowed in windows phone 7 apps:
- Sex / Nudity – Images that are sexually suggestive or provocative (e.g. sexually provocative touching, bondage, masturbation); provocative images that reveal nipples, genitals, buttocks, or pubic hair.
- Content that a reasonable person would consider to be adult or borderline adult content (images, text, or audio).
- Content that generally falls under the category of pornography.
- Content that depicts or suggests prostitution.
- Content depicting sexual fetishes.
- Content of a sexual nature depicting children or animals.
In the above photo, the man with the camera around his neck standing behind the boy was the current Russian Prime Minister (and former president) Vladimir Putin. He was pretending to be a tourist on his capacity as a KGB agent. On that day, on the Red Square, Gorbachev introduced Reagan to various tourists, who asked the American president pointed questions about subjects such as human rights in the United States. The photographer of this picture, Pete Souza, turned to the Secret Service and commented, “I can’t believe these tourists in the Soviet Union are asking these pointed questions.” The agent replied, “Oh, these are all KGB families.”
