Via: Janitor of Lunacy
“As if every passion did not contain its quantum of reason.”
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
Found this awesome Hookah at the Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur.
“Ornate silver hukkah from Punjab with a profusion of gold-plated leaves emerging from its engraved body. The mouth of the smoking pipe is shaped like the jewelled hand of a lady. The base is of velvet with floral ‘zari’ patterns. 20th century a.d.”
(via janitoroflunacy)
Did you know, in the Rig Veda, Krishna is described as so dark he’s black? Do you know, then, why he’s blue in most depictions? Because Indians are racist.
Via: Janitor of Lunacy
“What Hancock’s team invented was the credit default swap, a massive watershed in global financial history that dates to a corporate retreat at a Boca Raton resort in the summer of 1994, an employee field trip that would bankroll corporate risk disassociation parties long into the future. Tett attempts to recreate the magic moment when someone first concocted the CDS, but no one recalls much from the trip beyond an abundance of drinking games, prank room service orders and a poolside dunking contest in which a senior banker broke his nose, a tropical excursion the bankers recall with the fond nostalgia of aging celebrities reminiscing about the halcyon days of Woodstock and Studio 54.
“We had this sense of being special, of being detached from everyone else,” one says. “There was a sense of mission,” said the sustainer of the broken nose, a “sense that we had found this fantastic technology that we really believed in and we wanted to take to every part of the market we could.” Not content with her own seventy-odd uses of the word “innovation” and its variations over the course of 253 pages, Tett herself likens the team’s invention to “splitting the atom,” “cracking the DNA code”, “the banking equivalent of space travel” and the “financial equivalent of the Holy Grail.” Blythe Masters, a posh 25-yearold who would over the next few months take credit for inventing the credit default swap, would rave later that the concoction of sophisticated new “products” appealed to her not only because of her quantitative background, “but they are also so creative.” And finally: “I’ve known people who worked for the Manhattan Project, and for those of us on that trip there was that same kind of feeling at being present at the creation.”
“We had this sense of being special, of being detached from everyone else,” one says. “There was a sense of mission,” said the sustainer of the broken nose, a “sense that we had found this fantastic technology that we really believed in and we wanted to take to every part of the market we could.” Not content with her own seventy-odd uses of the word “innovation” and its variations over the course of 253 pages, Tett herself likens the team’s invention to “splitting the atom,” “cracking the DNA code”, “the banking equivalent of space travel” and the “financial equivalent of the Holy Grail.” Blythe Masters, a posh 25-yearold who would over the next few months take credit for inventing the credit default swap, would rave later that the concoction of sophisticated new “products” appealed to her not only because of her quantitative background, “but they are also so creative.” And finally: “I’ve known people who worked for the Manhattan Project, and for those of us on that trip there was that same kind of feeling at being present at the creation.”
Baffler - Journals of the Crisis Year
Good god, read. this. NOW.
This gold aluminum cover was designed to protect the Voyager 1 and 2 “Sounds of Earth” gold-plated records from micrometeorite bombardment, but also serves a double purpose in providing the finder a key to playing the record. The explanatory diagram appears on both the inner and outer surfaces of the cover, as the outer diagram will be eroded in time.
Flying aboard Voyagers 1 and 2 are identical “golden” records, carrying the story of Earth far into deep space. The 12 inch gold-plated copper discs contain greetings in 60 languages, samples of music from different cultures and eras, and natural and man-made sounds from Earth. They also contain electronic information that an advanced technological civilization could convert into diagrams and photographs.
Currently, both Voyager probes are sailing adrift in the black sea of interplanetary space, having left our solar system years ago.
Via: Uncertain Times
insleeregesprochen asked: Should we wait to declare war on the Corinthians until after the festival of Poseidon?
Yes. the ides of march are an inauspicious time, and we must wait until the boreal winds disperse, at which point the greasy bastards will be caught with their tunics around their ankles.
