Things you should've seen.
Wonderland cutlery with magnifying glasses in the handles - Boing Boing
Toyo Shibata only started writing when she was 92; now, as she prepares to celebrate her 100th birthday, her poems are finding an eager audience in Japan as it reels from two decades of economic malaise and faces up to an uncertain future. Shibata’s anthology, Kujikenaide [Don’t Lose Heart], has sold 1.5m copies since its publication, in late 2009. The self-published collection of 42 poems is proving literary balm to a country confronted with economic decline and questions over how to fund welfare and pensions for the growing population of over-65s. (via Japanese woman is bestselling poet - aged 99 | World news | The Guardian)
Stupid future. this isn’t happiness.™
Earlier this month, a new, larger Dalí Museum on Tampa Bay opened with plenty of fanfare, replacing the old one, and hopes to further expand that cultural reach. The museum director, Hank Hine, was aware that the collection needed to be better protected from the elements. “Our motivation was to get it secured - hurricane-proof, flood-proof,” he said. “Then we saw the chance to make it more amenable to visitor experience.” While the previous museum received an average of 200,000 visitors annually, “This building has the capacity to welcome three times as many,” he said The new museum, which cost $36 million and took two years to complete, has more than doubled the exhibition space of its predecessor. All 96 oil paintings can now be displayed simultaneously, with room to spare for much of the rest of the collection, which includes 100 watercolors and drawings and 1,300 graphics, sculptures and other objets d’art. Works represent every period of Dalí’s career, with painting highlights including “The Average Bureaucrat” (1930), “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory” (1952-54) and “Portrait of My Dead Brother” (1963).
- New Dalí Museum Opens in St. Petersburg, Fla. - Heads Up - NYTimes.com
How totally adorkable is this apron from Merriam Webster? (via [BB-Blog]: Yummy.)
According to a recent post on Norman Reedus’ official Twitter account there is talk of adding his Walking Dead (AMC) Character (Daryl) to the actual comic book due to the success of the show and specifically; the overwhelming popularity of his character. (via Daryl Dixon to make his Comic book Debut in Walking Dead)
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BFG of the Day: Brazil-based firearms manufacturer Taurus recently took its double-chambered revolver line (capable of firing both pistol and rifle cartridges), the “Taurus Judge” - so named because it is supposedly a favorite of judges in Miami’s high-crime areas - to cartoonish levels, when it introduced “The Raging Judge”: A handgun chambered for an unf**kwithable 28 gauge (55 caliber) shotshells.
The Firearm Blog claims Taurus canceled further production of the 28-gauge Raging Judge after the ATF stepped in and designated the weapon a Short Barreled Shotgun (making it illegal to own without a special permit). Guns America says this is untrue, but has yet to receive confirmation.
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ALEXIS: What exactly are you supposed to be?
CASTLE: Space cowboy.
ALEXIS: Okay. A: there are no cows in space. B: didn’t you wear that, like, five years ago?
CASTLE: So?
ALEXIS: So, don’t you think you should move on?
CASTLE: I like it.
(Castle, “Vampire Weekend”)
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A spectacular haul of stone tools discovered beneath a collapsed rock shelter in southern Arabia has forced a major rethink of the story of human migration out of Africa. The collection of hand axes and other tools shaped to cut, pierce and scrape bear the hallmarks of early human workmanship, but date from 125,000 years ago, around 55,000 years before our ancestors were thought to have left the continent.
- Stone tools discovered in Arabia force archaeologists to rethink human history | Science | The Guardian
Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel auteur David Greenwalt’s next TV show is going to be Grimm (yes, with a capital G).
NBC has just greenlit a pilot for the Greenwalt-produced Grimm, a fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist. Fellow Angel scribe Jim Kouf will co-write the script and both will serve as exec producers. Also serving as EPs are Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, the duo behind TV Land’s red-hot Hot in Cleveland.
- Breaking: NBC Orders Brothers Grimm-Themed Drama From Buffy Scribe - TVline
Lego haunted house - Boing Boing
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Click to viewLazy Teenage Superheroes: $300 short superhero movie kicks ass - Boing Boing (NSFW)
The cultural machinery that produces judgments about an artist’s lifetime of effort has less material to process when that artist dies young. The wheels grind faster and on thinner stuff. And when that young artist (or writer or actor) is a suicide, the quality of the material is often overlooked because it is immediately more valuable. The lurching randomness of existence suddenly has a steady meaning. Everything done or said by the deceased seems to be a clue that will explain why someone would choose to die rather than live. The last act suddenly becomes the most important act. Call it the Sylvia Plath Effect or the Diane Arbus Syndrome.
- Francesca Woodman, the Woodmans | When One Act Colors a Lifetime of Work | By Richard B. Woodward - WSJ.com
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The changes may seem surprising for a city where churches that have long condemned homosexuality remain a powerful force. But as demographers sift through recent data releases from the Census Bureau, they have found that Jacksonville is home to one of the biggest populations of gay parents in the country. In addition, the data show, child rearing among same-sex couples is more common in the South than in any other region of the country, according to Gary Gates, a demographer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gay couples in Southern states like Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas are more likely to be raising children than their counterparts on the West Coast, in New York and in New England.
- Gay Parents Find the South More Welcoming, Census Says - NYTimes.com
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