We may think of Kubrick's 2001 as the great grown-up sci-fi film, but many beautiful, thoughtful cosmic adventures came out of the Eastern Bloc too

Swedish sea treasure hunters have found something extraordinary: an 18m disc sunk in the bottom of the ocean, with what appears to be 300m long impact tracks leading to it.

Internet Explorer users have a lower than average IQ, according to research by Consulting firm AptiQuant.
The study gave web surfers an IQ test, then plotted their scores against the browser they used.
IE surfers were found to have an average IQ lower than people using Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Users of Camino and Opera rated highest.

A story which suggested that users of Internet Explorer have a lower IQ than people who chose other browsers appears to have been an elaborate hoax.
A number of media organisations, including the BBC, reported on the research, put out by Canadian firm ApTiquant.
It later emerged that the company's website was only recently set up and staff images were copied from a legitimate business in Paris. It is unclear who was behind the stunt.

Researchers put forward the idea after computer simulations found that a collision with a second, sibling moon in Earth's early history might solve the longstanding puzzle of why the two faces of the moon differ so dramatically.

While the near side, which always faces the Earth, is low-lying and relatively flat, the far side is high and mountainous, with a crust tens of kilometres thicker.

The idea builds on what planetary scientists call the "big impact" model of the moon, in which a planet the size of Mars slammed into the Earth in the early days of the solar system and knocked out a vast shower of rocky debris, which later coalesced as the moon.

The message from Mr Hendrikse's sermon seems bleak - "Make the most of life on earth, because it will probably be the only one you get".
"Personally I have no talent for believing in life after death," Mr Hendrikse says. "No, for me our life, our task, is before death." Nor does Klaas Hendrikse believe that God exists at all as a supernatural thing.

Knowing the extent to which people are economically penalized (or rewarded) for their looks raises the question: Should the ill-favored be protected? ... Putting such statutes in place would require agreeing on a universal scale of attractiveness, and then having eligible people step forward to claim their protections. ... Would you be willing to petition the U.S. government for official recognition of your ugliness? Would you do it for $230,000?

5. Boy George on Elton John
“All that money, and he’s still got hair like a fucking dinner lady.”

"He was begging us to restrain him because he didn't want to kill us," Galveston Officer Daniel Erickson said. "He said he needed to feed."
...
Bensley made growling and hissing noises while biting and hitting the woman in her bed, Heyse said. Bensley then dragged her out of the apartment and she broke free.
She ran into the parking lot where she got into a car driven by a neighbor. Bensley beat on the car before it sped away, Heyse said.
Police received a call at 6:50 a.m. Erickson said he and another officer were in the woman's apartment when they heard shrieking and growling sounds and saw Bensley in the parking lot. They arrested him after a short chase.
"I'm a vampire, and I've been alive for over 500 years," Bensley said, according to Erickson.
...

Naked Rambler Stephen Gough has been jailed for another 657 days after enjoying less than 60 seconds of freedom.
The 52-year-old was arrested outside Perth Prison almost immediately after he was released from his previous 21-month sentence.
He was found guilty of breaching the peace and being in contempt of court.
The former Royal Marine, from Eastleigh in Hampshire, has been behind bars in Scotland for much of the past decade.

I’ve been on this dash too long.

And that starts to eat away at a blogger.

My main bitch turned her back on me.

I don’t have much to believe in.

So now I’m drowning in the purp.

Dove in head first.

Eggplant Cuci cashmere.

Violet suede Tods.

Orchid moleskin cargos.

Pansy patch pockets.

I’ve copped four grails this week.

I can explain.

OG charms up on my wristicles.

That shit bray.

Vents dip.

Twit clips.

Post dope dick pics.

Breasts blow open.

Bloggers Googling my knit slips.

Forearms on smash.

Showin’ off da mewelery.

Head hung low.

Ashamed of sartorial tomfoolery.

These shades gon cost you.

This fade gon cost you.

Unfollowing ya boy gon cost you.

I get paid for reblogs fool.

"Despite all he has seen, he says he is not haunted by the ones who were lost. He cannot remember the first suicide he witnessed, and none have plagued his nightmares. He says he does his best with each person, and if he loses one, he accepts that there was nothing more he could have done."

Start of the Harpy or amphibious monster of Cadiz to be brought to the king and the royal family of Spain.

This animal was taken on the banks of the lake of Fagua, in the Realm of Santa Fe, province of Chile, in Peru in the Meridional America. It was taken to the Viceroy who made it travel inland to the Gulf of honduras where it was shipped to Havana and from there to Bermuda in the Azores, and lastly to Cadiz. A great cage was built, who could easily contain it. Six strong horses lead the cart on which this cage is resting ; Oxen, cows and pigs are made to follow, in order to feed it. It is hoped it will soon reach its destination, where it is most impatiently waited. This monster is roughly 12 foot long : its face is like that of a man, the mouth very large ; it has two bull horns, donkey ears and a long mane like that of the lion : it has two woman's teats and bat wings. It has only two paws large and short, each armed with 5 horn claws. It has two tails, one shaped like that of the snake, able to seize its prey, and the other with a sting is used to kill it, the lower part of its body is covered with scales, and the upper part with hairs. It eats every day and ox and three pigs.

In Paris, at Esnauts & Rapilly, rue Saint Jacques, at the sign of the City of Coutances

from the "disturbation" project

A piece of my recent project called “disturbation”.
I’ve retold in pictures several stories that shouldn’t had been never seen.
Capturing people during various intimate situations in “caught in the act” way,
most of it is mockumentary, reconstruction of true and false memories.
The rest is authentic.

There’s nothing in common with political views of mine.

70 X 50 cm / c-print
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