Fleeting Glimpses

futurejournalismproject: Scaling Mt....

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:30:25 +0100

Scaling Mt. Everest

Twenty-five-year-old Raha Moharrak is the first Saudi Arabian woman, and youngest Arab ever, to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. She accomplished the feat with the first Qatari and Palestinian men to ever reach the peak, and an Iranian man.

The group calls itself Arabs with Altitude and the expedition was made in an attempt to raise $1 million for education projects in Nepal.

Image: Raha Moharrak on being “first”. Mt. Everest aerial view via Wikimedia Commons. Select to embiggen.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 19:42:34 +0100

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Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:11 +0100

theatlanticcities: The new The Great Gasby movie comes out...

Tue, 14 May 2013 05:30:12 +0100

theatlanticcities:

The new The Great Gasby movie comes out today, here’s a look at some of the places that inspired the scenes.

Read: The Real Life Towns That Inspired The Great Gatsby

[Images: Oheka Castle]

"The Oxford Student newspaper reported that a member of the Bullingdon Club was fined for setting off..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:30:11 +0100

“The Oxford Student newspaper reported that a member of the Bullingdon Club was fined for setting off a firework at a nightclub earlier this month. According to the paper, the student was accepted into the club after an initiation ceremony which included burning a £50 note in front of a tramp.”

- Buried at the end of an article about Oxford’s BDS motion - what the literal fuck?

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire, put the Toooooooooories on the top…

(via tooyoungforthelivingdead)

In 1896 Walter McClintock traveled west as a photographer for...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:28 +0100

In 1896 Walter McClintock traveled west as a photographer for a federal commission investigating national forests. McClintock became friends with the expedition’s Blackfoot Indian scout, William Jackson or Siksikakoan. When the commission completed its field work, Jackson introduced McClintock to the Blackfoot community of northwestern Montana. Over the next twenty years, supported by the Blackfoot elder Mad Wolf, McClintock made several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot, their homelands, their material culture, and their ceremonies.

moviesinframes: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939 (dir. Frank...

Mon, 13 May 2013 05:30:30 +0100

moviesinframes:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939 (dir. Frank Capra)

By quello-nello-specchio

techspotlight: Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have...

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:30:21 +0100

techspotlight:

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have broken through a symbolic mark. Daily measurements of CO2 at the authoritative “Keeling lab” on Hawaii have topped 400 parts per million for the first time. The station, which sits atop the Mauna Loa volcano, has the longest continuous measure of the concentration of the gas, stretching back to 1958. The last time CO2 was regularly above 400ppm was about 3-5 million years ago - before modern humans existed. (via BBC News - Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark)

Well that’s concerning…

tastefullyoffensive: [chuck&beans]

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:00:20 +0100

tastefullyoffensive:

[chuck&beans]

colchrishadfield: Moonset, one of 16 per day on ISS, all...

Sun, 12 May 2013 05:30:20 +0100

colchrishadfield:

Moonset, one of 16 per day on ISS, all marvelous to see.

clientsfromhell: After the client asked specifically for cool colors… Client: Can you put some cool...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:30:16 +0100

clientsfromhell:

After the client asked specifically for cool colors…

Client: Can you put some cool reds in there?

Me: Red is usually considered very warm.

Me: Any colour can be cool, with the right attitude.

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Sat, 11 May 2013 11:00:17 +0100

tastefullyoffensive: [smrvl]

Sat, 11 May 2013 05:30:12 +0100

tastefullyoffensive:

[smrvl]

mapsontheweb: Countries that border only one other

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:54:09 +0100

mapsontheweb:

Countries that border only one other

"People get hurt and close their minds, but as time passes, they gradually open up, and they grow as..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:30:29 +0100

“People get hurt and close their minds, but as time passes, they gradually open up, and they grow as they repeat that. This novel is about growth.”

- Haruki Murakami on his new novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (via murakamistuff)

mapsontheweb: African slave trade, 1500-1870

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:10:49 +0100

mapsontheweb:

African slave trade, 1500-1870

mapsontheweb: Cartogram of ‘Where U.S. NEWs stories focus’

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:00:01 +0100

mapsontheweb:

Cartogram of ‘Where U.S. NEWs stories focus’

putthison: Should You Take a Bath in Your Jeans and Other...

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:30:03 +0100

putthison:

Should You Take a Bath in Your Jeans and Other Common Denim Questions

Denim Lore with Kiya Babzani, Part II

Yesterday, we talked with Kiya Babzani - co-owner and founder of Self Edge - about whether or not people should really wait six months before washing their jeans. Today, we’ll explore three other common beliefs in the denim community, including the one about taking a bath in your jeans when you first bring them home.

Derek Guy: It’s commonly advised that jeans should always fit extremely tight when you first buy them – to the point where you can barely button them up. Is that true?

Kiya Babzani: Definitely not. There are two deciding factors when buying jeans: does it look good and does it feel good? If you’re stuffing yourself into a pair of jeans two sizes too small because that’s what the blogs and message boards tell you, you’re doing it wrong.

DG: Isn’t the idea that some jeans will heavily stretch over time?

KB: If you’re a 32 and you buy a pair of jeans in a size 30 to account for stretching, you’re going to look like a stuffed sausage and have red slashes at your hips for weeks. That’s neither comfortable nor attractive. Also, most decent jeans don’t stretch that much with wear. The maximum is about 1.5” or so unless you get them extremely tight when new.

DG: How about the idea that you should first wear your jeans in the bathtub while letting them soak?

KB: People like to overcomplicate the wearing of jeans. The idea that you should wear your jeans in a bathtub is a terrible idea. It’s not only uncomfortable, but it stretches out the jeans in unnatural ways. It creates knee-bagging and pulls at the hips, giving you hip-flare.

It’s true, however, that you should always soak unsanforized denim before wearing (you don’t need to for sanforized denim). If you’re buying them from a store, you should find the fit you like then buy one size up and do a 30-minute hot water soak once you bring them home. If you’re buying online, just buy one size/measurement up from your true size.

You need to soak unsanforized denim so that the shrinkage is gone before you start the fading process. The jeans will also last far longer if soaked before wearing. You don’t need to do it while wearing them in the tub, however. Again, this will just create unnatural stretching in areas such as the knees and hips. Just throw them in a tub, sink, or bucket, and let them soak.

DG: OK, let’s do one last bit of denim lore. I’ve read that raw denim will mold to your body. Is this actually true?

KB: Yes, all raw denim will mold to your body, but sanforized denim only slightly molds, while unsanforized denim will take on the shape of your figure. If you take two pairs of jeans in the same fit and size, one sanforized and one unsanforized, soak them both in water for five minutes, put them on, and let them dry (not something I recommend doing, by the way, for the reasons mentioned above). This will quicken the process of “molding.” Afterwards, you can take the jeans off and lay them down. You’ll then notice that the sanforized pair will be nearly like they were before, while the unsanforized pair will look like you’re still wearing them.

DG: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, Kiya

KB: Thank you.

(Photo credit: Farhad Samari)

"The problem with society, today, is not lack of money or debt but lack of ideas, lack of commitment..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:51:42 +0100

“The problem with society, today, is not lack of money or debt but lack of ideas, lack of commitment by our government to realise that its constituents are the people, not city bankers and hedge fund managers whose loyalty is to their ledger books rather than to the community. I don’t know if we will come out of this present darkness. Perhaps humanity will simply retreat into the caves whence our ancestors came because we were cowed by self-serving political parties and dubious leaders of business. I hope not, for the sake of the generations to come, but there is one thing I am certain of: had the politicians and business mandarins of today been in power in 1939, they wouldn’t have had the bottle to fight Nazism. There would have been no Dunkirk, no Battle of Britain, no Finest Hour. Our leaders today on either side of the house would have allowed the lights across Europe to grow dim, because after all that would have been the cheapest and most prudent solution to Hitler’s tyranny.”

- Harry Leslie Smith (WW2 veteran)

“Are you outta your Vulcan mind?!” Just as good...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:20:27 +0100

“Are you outta your Vulcan mind?!”

Just as good three years later.