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Equivalent to ten raised to the power of a googol.
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“Also people think they’re not computers because they have feelings and computers don’t have feelings. But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year, or what might have happened instead of what did happen, and if it is a happy picture they smile and if it is a sad picture they cry.”
— The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Facebook snaps up Instagram for $1bn |
Social networking giant to make photo-sharing company its biggest ever acquisition ahead of highly anticipated IPO.
Australian artist Konstantin Dimopoulos paints urban trees blue (with environmentally safe paint) to raise awareness of global deforestation. Melbourne, Richmond, Vancouver and Virginia have all hosted his Blue Trees project and next week it’s going to be in Seattle. More info on 4Culture and Treehugger.
Newsweek: Stand Your Ground
The Trayvon Martin tragedy is not the first in which a young person has been injured or killed by a shooter who claimed self-defense. Here’s another, from Texas, March 2008, that’s also quite tragic:
It was 10:30 p.m. and a man sitting near his front window saw two teenagers crossing his…
Inquisitive Octopus. By: AnnBuster
Watching Paint Dry by Phyllis Toburen
Did anyone ever stop to think that the old euphemism for boredom about “watching the paint dry” was ill-informed? Because Phyllis’ extreeeeeeeeeme close-up photos of painting drying looks like the surface of an alien planet, curling and cracking for millennia unspoilt by humans.
(via: flavorwire)
(via fuckyeahartandscience)
From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared
In this week’s issue, Francisco Goldman writes about the forced disappearance of as many as thirty thousand people by the military junta that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Artists from across South America have created powerful bodies of work that reflect on these atrocities, which happened throughout the Southern Cone during this era of military dictatorship: citizens were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the thousands by their own militaries, and their families were left with no knowledge of their fates.
- On our Photo Booth blog, a selection of photographs from photographers who have worked extensively on the theme of the disappeared: http://nyr.kr/e87pBj
