2013-05-23

Visual History: Endurance Racing vol. 1 /via ISO50 Blog

Source: blog.iso50.com
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Wagoneer 4X4 /via iainclaridge.net

Source: iainclaridge.co.uk
2013-05-20

untitled by patrickjoust.
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Baseball Magic

All about baseball player’s rituals, taboos, and talismans. My favorite one:

There is a taboo against crossing bats, against permitting one bat to rest on top of another. Although this superstition appears to be dying out among ballplayers today, it was religiously observed by some of my teammates. One of my Hispanic teammates became quite annoyed when another player tossed a bat from the batting cage and it landed on top of his bat. Later he explained that the top bat might steal hits from the lower one. In his view, bats contained a finite number of hits, a sort of baseball “image of limited good.” For Pirate shortstop Honus Wagner, a charter member of baseball’s Hall of Fame, each bat contained only 100 hits and never more. Regardless of the quality of the bat, he would discard it after its 100th hit.

I used to wear the same t-shirt under my lacrosse jersey for every game until it basically disintegrated from repeated washing and wearing. /via things
2013-05-18

7Min

A 7 minute workout timer to help you do this. Brilliant.
2013-05-16

Awww, look, baby shit machines.
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Songs I’ve been abusing lately: Television by You Won’t & The Woodpile by Frightened Rabbit (video).
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Two more Google Reader replacements, both paid services. Feeder, a free Chrome plugin and/or a paid full web version. Feedbin, two smackers a month with App support.
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Bolides, visualizing meteorites. Love this, so Asteroids.
2013-05-14

ScanLAB’s Harvester. /via bldgblog.
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ckck:

R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen.

I spent many a Saturday afternoon watching the monsters this man made.

Source: ckck