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Ted Wilson Reviews the World

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:55:00 -0500

These fairly short “reviews” tackle subjects that we generally don’t think need to be reviewed. But, they are always good for a laugh…

Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a grain of sand.

→http://therumpus.net/author/ted-wilson/

The Expendables

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:25:00 -0500

It’s the dark romance of the French Foreign Legion: haunted men from everywhere, fighting anywhere, dying for causes not their own.

→ http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/12/french-foreign-legion-expendables

Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:37:00 -0500

By day they work as computer programmers and stock boys and academics. But at night they are known as urban explorers. The Brooklyn Bridge, London’s Shard, Notre Dame—each structure is an expedition waiting to happen. Each sewer, each scaffold, each off-limits site is a puzzle to solve. No wonder the cops are after them. Matthew Power embeds with the space invaders and sees a world—above- and belowground—that the rest of us never knew existed

→ http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-explorers-gq-march-2013

What Coke Contains

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:31:00 -0500

“The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all. Invention and creation is something we are all in together. Modern tool chains are so long and complex that they bind us into one people and one planet. They are not only chains of tools, they are also chains of minds: local and foreign, ancient and modern, living and dead — the result of disparate invention and intelligence distributed over time and space. Coca-Cola did not teach the world to sing, no matter what its commercials suggest, yet every can of Coke contains humanity’s choir.”

→ https://medium.com/the-ingredients-2/221d449929ef