Godmorgen. Det er tid til tirsdagens morgenpost, hvor vi blandt andet skal til London, Antarktis og ud på verdenshavene...
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"Transport for London doesn't pin down the exact number of disused underground stations, but says there are "in the region of 40". Some of these were relocated so their names live on, but 20 on the list won't be found on a current Tube map, as this ghost map of the London Underground shows."
Jeg elsker elsker elsker forladte steder, som stadig består. Her er et par billeder af Aldwych St. i London, der ikke længere er i brug. Her er et kort over samtlige undergrundsstationer i London, der ikke længere er i brug. Og her er der en maaaasse information om de forladte stationer i London, verdens ældste undergrundsbane.
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"Conservators restoring an Antarctic exploration hut recently made a remarkable discovery: a small box of 22 exposed but unprocessed photographic negatives, frozen in a solid block of ice for nearly one hundred years."
Sejt. Og hvis du endnu ikke har set udstillingen Arktis på Louisiana, synes jeg du skal se at komme afsted. Den er god. Monocle har også været forbi og har lavet en lille videosnas om udstillingen.
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lol my thesis. Summing up years of work in one sentence.
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"Calling someone a hipster as the punchline of a joke is slightly lazier than doing a Borat impression and just a bit more obnoxious than making a Harlem Shake video. It’s lame, it’s not clever, and it needs to die. Immediately."
"It’s like trying to run up a hill that starts out steep and gradually levels off. At the start you’re making great progress upwards, but the closer you get to the peak, the smaller the gains in altitude with each step."
Hvordan går det med dit nytårsforsæt? Er du stoppet med at ryge? Begyndt at løbe? Har du tabt dig? Taget cyklen noget mere? Det tager sin tid at ændre vaner, så bered dig på kamp.
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På Financial Times' interaktive side kan du se, hvor langt du skal væk fra centrum, hvis du med din indtægt skal leje bolig i London. Ret interessant, kunne være sjovt at se en lignende oversigt for København. London er selvfølgelig notorisk meget dyrere end København. Som et sjovt tankeeksperiment har en blogger regnet ud, at det er billigere for ham at bo i Barcelona og commute til arbejde i London, end det er at bo fast i London. (Miljøsvineri ikke inkluderet).
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"Basketball was Iverson’s sanctuary, and he signed huge contracts: a six-year deal in 1999 worth $70.9 million and, four years later, a new agreement worth $76.7 million. Reebok signed him to a huge endorsement deal, including a deferred trust worth more than $30 million, a lump sum he can’t touch until he turns 55."
"Why is the live album almost completely moribund? Part of the problem is the kind of music that dominates the pop space. How would a Rihanna live album differ from a Rihanna studio album? What would be the advantage of a Britney Spears concert document, especially one without accompanying video? Artists now rely on a staggering amount of technology, which isn’t to say trickery, but the music doesn’t translate easily to an onstage environment."
En fin historiefortælling om livealbummets historie i anledning af Rolling Stones' nye liveplade 'Sweet Summer Sun'.
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"Every year, on the first Saturday in January, Japan makes a grand statement to the global fishing community by putting an exorbitant price on the head of a single bluefin tuna. At the famous Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, the first bluefin auction of the year represents many things: growing consumer demand for bluefin sashimi, the exploitation of natural resources, the collapse of a species, shortsightedness in the face of impending doom to the entire ocean, a depraved publicity stunt."
Jeg kan love dig for, at jeg har meget på hjerte. Men det kommer jeg ikke til at blande ind i min karriere. Det er ikke professionelt interessant for mig at udtale mig om ting. At jeg selv mener en masse i det private … fair snak. Men den snak kan jeg tage med nogle venner.
