Godmorgen, tænk det er allerede fredag. Det betyder ugens sidste morgenpost. Jeg lover dig, at den er god. Kommer her:
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"The number of asteroids zooming close to Earth is far greater than previously believed, highlighting the need to ramp up efforts to find and track these potentially dangerous space rocks, experts say. (...) The Russian meteor caught scientists and citizens of Chelyabinsk by surprise, exploding without warning on Feb. 15. The shock wave created by the blast — which was equivalent to about 500 kilotons of TNT — shattered windows throughout the area, sending more than 1,200 people to the hospital."
"It’s true: by the time the last American combat soldier departs, at the end of next year, Afghanistan will have been at war for thirty-five years. It was Christmas Eve, 1979, when the first of eighty thousand troops from the Soviet Union swept across the border, ostensibly on a brief mission to stabilize a restive neighbor. Since then, war has never died out."
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Et lands forfærdelige historie vist gennem et smukt slideshow på The New Yorker.
"Eventually, penguins began flocking to the ship and the birds were—Cook wrote—“of equal interest to the naturalist and the cook.” He began eating penguins. They taste like “a piece of beef, odiferous cod fish and a canvas-backed duck roasted together in a pot, with blood and cod-liver oil for sauce”—but eventually he convinced the crew’s leader to make everyone eat penguin. Remember, Cook was a physician and was essentially prescribing this fresh meat as medicine."
Fin lille fortælling fra en polarekspedition i 1897, hvor skibet frøs fast i isen hele vinteren og besætningen ombord måtte spise pingvinkød. Bemærk at hjemmesiden, hvor historien stammer fra, har skrevet Roald Amundsen som Raoul Amundsen. #raoulduke. Lolz.
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"A European satellite that mapped Earth’s gravitational field in exquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days. Where and when it will crash no one knows. It could be almost anywhere on the globe. About 25 to 45 fragments of the one-ton spacecraft are expected to survive all the way to the surface, with the largest perhaps weighing 200 pounds."
Endnu flere ting, der falder ned fra himlen. WTF?! Få i det mindste styr på de ting, vi selv har sendt op i rummet.
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Lollipop Magazine er et samarbejde mellem fotograf Joshua Paul og art director Tom Brown. Det handler om Formel 1 og er virkelig, virkelig smukt - også selvom man som jeg er ret ligeglad med motorsport (motor + sport = det største oxymoron nogensinde). Tjek billeder og mere info om magasinet her.
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Jeg kan godt lide Anthony Burrills plakater og har selv en af dem hængende derhjemme. Ovenfor en plakat fra et projekt, han lavede sidste år i Saõ Paolo.
"Cover shows a six-item list of a person's most-used apps down the left edge of a phone's lock screen. Tapping one of the icons launches its app immediately, and sliding an icon toward the right lets you peek quickly at details of that app -- e-mail inboxes, city maps, calendar appointments, and so on. The app tries to anticipate what you'll need so you'll be one step closer to getting what you need on the phone."
Jeg var inde at se 'Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This Is Stones Throw Records)' i går og må på det kraftigste anbefale, at du også ser den. Den er en del af CPH:DOX, og du kan købe billetter til søndag den 17. november. Et fantastisk portræt af Peanut Butter Wolfs pladeselskab, som har gjort, som det passede dem uden aldrig rigtig at skele til, hvad der solgte. En stor del af filmen handler om Madlib og J Dilla og jeg åd det råt. Og så har Kanye West uden sammenligning filmens sjoveste citat. Men du må se filmen for at finde ud af, hvad han siger. Trailer ovenfor.
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"First—if you are in love—that’s a good thing—that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second—There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you—of kindness and consideration and respect—not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had."
Chefen over dem alle, John Steinbeck, giver lidt råd om kærlighed til sin søn Thom, der er forelsket i en pige. Klik igennem og læs hele brevet, det er ret fint.
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Ooooooookay det var alt for i dag og for denne uge. Tak fordi du kiggede med. Husk at nyde weekenden og dine venner. Drik noget mere vand og spis ingefær noget oftere.
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.
