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kleinbl00  ·  3876 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Unshared Hubski Gems or What is wrong with you people?!

The Science Fiction braintrust advising the Department of Homeland Security.

I know three of the people mentioned personally. You certainly know them by name. I can totally see Larry Niven saying that.

An essay on flying pre-WWII cropdusters.

I sorta wish I still had my subscription to Garden and Gun, but it's stupid expensive. This is some of the most evocative descriptions of flying I've read this side of Tom Wolfe.

I have no recollection of posting this.

I honestly have no recollection of this existing. Was this on Facebook? I was probably drunk. Nonetheless, Fabio throwing boomerang pizzas and severing the members of Spanish exhibitionists.

The data you're giving up, more than a year before Snowden.

Still a beautiful video. Still timely. Still unloved.

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Older than that, I start getting broken links. This was a good article about Bang & Olufsen but apparently Wired can't be bothered to keep their content intact.

Most of the stuff I think is cool tends to get shared a lot. The rest of it... eh.