Category Archives: Uncategorized

Unique…

In its letter, FSG insisted: “The unique and sacred relationship between Liverpool Football Club and its supporters has always been foremost in our minds. It represents the heartbeat of this extraordinary football club.”

At at time when the Hillsborough inquest process is finally drawing to a close, those words take on even more meaning. Now there is an onus on Liverpool’s owners to prove that those are more than just warm words. And for the rest of the Premier League’s 19 clubs to wonder whether they might not just have got their priorities skewed too. Power to the people, right on.

Power to the people: Liverpool fans’ ticket price victory may be just the start | Owen Gibson | Football | The Guardian

Sally in Space…

“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” –Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

Animated interview with Sally Ride, the first American woman in space / Boing Boing

Disney Ordeal Kingdom…

BAY LAKE, FL—Touting the new property’s wide variety of unique and imaginative attractions, representatives from the Walt Disney World Resort announced Monday the opening of Ordeal Kingdom, a new theme park specifically designed for full-scale family meltdowns.

Disney World Opens New Ordeal Kingdom For Family Meltdowns

Elegance…

In a gorgeous animation, Malin Christersson shows how much simpler it is to plot out celestial mechanics when you assume that all the bodies in our solar system are in orbit around the sun, rather …

Elegance, illustrated: heliocentrism vs geocentrism

Paris’ modernist housing estates…

Photographer Laurent Kronental spent four years documenting the lives of older citizens living in the Grands Ensembles housing estates built around Paris after the second world war for his Souvenir d’un Futur project

Cracked walls, wrinkled faces: Paris’ modernist housing estates and their elderly residents – in pictures | Cities | The Guardian