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• A 1st Century Villa in Positano When I was about 13 or so, I was blown away when I learned that ancient Greek and Roman statues used to be painted and were not commissioned to be ghostly-white. An all-time favorite is this Greek sculpture of a Persian archer. Source: “We know Gr…
• A Fremen Mama Well not really. I was immediately reminded of (a) where I grew up and (b) Dune when I saw this photo of a Bedouin mother and her child. “Bedouin Mother”, Ilo Battigelli, 1948 (Source Unknown) Intense and so beautiful. It was composed by this ch…
• On The People Who Truly Love The United States and Would Like to Restore it to its Former Glory Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with…
• Letting the Cat Out of the Bag From the United Automobile Worker magazine, 1937: “What did you tell that man just now?” “I told him to hurry.” “What right do you have to tell him to hurry?” “I pay him to hurry.” “How much do you pay him?” “Four dollars a day.” “Where do you get t…
• A Little Baby Octopus This is insanely adorable. /misc/b/baby-octopus-jellybean.mp4 For more cuteness, you can see a high-res photo of a transparent baby octopus or a baby octopus’ chromatophores 🥰…
• Cowsay! 🐮 I love me my cowsay. It’s a lovely amusement that greets me every time I open a terminal session. People typically use it with the fortune command but my cow moos a random developer excuse. I generate that using this bash function and this invocatio…

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  Black HoleCharles Burns (1995-2005)

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  Se7enDavid Seidman and Ralph Tedesco (2008)

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  The Strangest ManGraham Farmelo (2009)

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  Adventures of the Magic Monkey Along the Silk RoadsEvelyn Nagai-Berthrong and Anker Odum (1983)

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  TogetherLuke Adam Hawker (2021)

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  Ice HavenDaniel Clowes (2005)

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  Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s BooksGeorges Perec (2020)

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