slaughts
Amazing album cover collages…
—via Coudal
Not just a great tune, but also a concise explanation of why my dancing still SUCKS. Kids, choose your early role models well.
Douchebag Solidarity
—via boingboing
The original Zatoichi, played by Shintaro Katsu.
“Now, what do you think of Zatoichi? The blind samurai.”
— Tom Waits, Guardian interview
“Wanna get outta here? Talk to me.”
(via screencaps)
Pump it up. If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger …
Genealogy of a supergroup (in this case, Blind Faith)…
(via retrospace)
R.I.P. Dr. Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009
The semi-dwarf wheat that made him famous was a cross between Mexican wheats and a dwarf Japanese variety that didn’t fall over even under the weight of enormous seed heads. It was also disease-resistant. Given fertilizer, the new wheat could produce four times as much food per acre. It was also indifferent to day-length, so it could be planted widely across the world’s good soils.
The Green Revolution was born. Over the ensuing decades, crop yields were tripled with improved seeds, industrial fertilizer, irrigation pumps and pesticides. The Atlantic Monthly estimated that Borlaug’s seeds, and the research stations and agricultural extension services he founded, saved a billion human lives.
The Three Amigos
(via retrospace)
