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Author Archives: Jeff K
Stockholm’s Suburbs Are on Fire
Here is a translation of two texts about the ongoing Swedish riots that have appeared in the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet authored by Megafonen and Pantrarna. Megafonen (The Megaphone) and Pantrarna (The Panthers) are two community activist groups based in Swedish … Continue reading
Missile Containerization
A new missile system that takes advantage of containerization. Via critical logistics
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Golfing Detroit
Camilo José Vergara once suggested turning all of downtown Detroit into a ‘ruins park’ or ‘American acropolis’. How about a golf course asks journalist Charlie LeDuff? Note the appearance of ‘ruin pornographers’ at 6:15.
A Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods
From Edward Quin’s An Historical Atlas; In a Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods (1830) The above image is from 1498: The Discovery Of America. Via: the David Rumsey Map Collection and Cartophile.
Princeton historian Ben Schmidt’s visualization of all the shipping routes taken by Dutch, Spanish, and English vessels between 1750 and 1850.
The Other Guys as Post-Crash Comedy
While The Kingdom by and large confined its geopolitical context to the opening credits, The Other Guys – the new Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg cop-buddy comedy that opened at number 1 in the States last week – confines it to … Continue reading
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