At The Museum

It was a good day to be a visitor at the Air & Space Museum today; the USAF Band made an appearance...



This has been making the rounds in the DC corner of the interwebs and it's just a really cool little thing...

Are Your pencils Sharp Enough?

This guy says you're doing it wrong...



David Rees, artisanal hand sharpener of Number 2 pencils, is at least partially serious about all of this.  The New Yorker had a good rundown on the project and Rees's book a while back...

But Rees isn’t messing about—or, at least, “messing about” is an inadequate phrase for the kind of immersive seriocomic undertaking he’s involved in here.

There's plenty more fun to be had on Rees's personal website (this isn't his only project) and his pencil sharpening site as well.

Happy sharpening!

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Get Out Of Your Car & On The Bus

Or why mass transit makes so much sense...

 

Kind of speaks for itself doesn't it?

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Metric vs Standard

Ostensibly this video is about why A4 is the perfect paper size (and system), but really it's a brilliant takedown of the inch...



I bet you didn't even know A4 was a system for sizing paper (I sure didn't know it was the metric system, or how cool it is).  This is another one of those examples where it really feels like we (the US) should join the party already and get on the metric system.  At the same time it's another great example of why we never will; can you imagine the headache of trying to convert all of the printers (well, most of them will run A4 I think) and filing systems (wait, maybe A4 will fit in standard files too)...

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The Buckeyes Can March

This video of the Ohio State Marching Band doing a Michael Jackson tribute has been bouncing around for at least a few days now.  I didn't watch it until Questlove said to on twitter.  He was right too, jump to 4:20 in the video to see why...

Go Read A Book

I really, really like books. I like reading them, I like holding them, I like having them on shelves, I like browsing for new ones to read whether that's in a store or a library, or once upon a time a bookmobile.

Bookmobiles are awesome, this is a fact.  It's sad that they aren't around anymore for the most part if you ask me.

Messy Nessy Chic took a look back at the history of the bookmobile and dug up some great pictures to help tell the story of their rise and fall.

Lots more where that came from...

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Eat Good Meat

Seriously people if you put a little effort and concern in to what you're eating and where it's coming from and how it was raised and processed (especially if it's meat), you'll not only fell better about yourself you'll be eating tastier food and probably feel better because you're eating healthier as well.

Which is all really to say this Banksy piece from his current NYC show is pretty brilliant...