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WEBHoly smoking Toledos indeed. On Reddit, a user details how loud a Saturn V rocket is and what the effects would be at different distances.At very close range, the sound from the Saturn V measures an incredible 220 db, loud enough to melt concrete just from the sound.. At 500 meters, 155 db you would experience painful, violent shaking in your entire body, you would feel compressed, as though ...
About Kottke.org
WEBAbout Kottke.org. Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include art, technology, science, visual culture, design, music, cities, food ...
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WEBA growing number of posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords. Some of the tag pages have dozens or even hundreds of entries, almost like they're slow-moving topical blogs. Warning: you will get lost down some rabbit holes with these. Some recommended starting points. Recently popular topics. All-time popular subjects.
Database of old book illustrations - kottke.org
WEBFeb 7, 2020 · Database of old book illustrations. Here’s an enormous library of thousands of old book illustrations, with searchable name, artist, source, date, which book it was in, etc. There are also a number of collections to browse through, and each are tagged with multiple keywords so you can also get lost in there in that manner. Though the team ...
Jonny Greenwood Pretended to Play the Keyboard When He First …
WEBFeb 16, 2022 · Jonny Greenwood Pretended to Play the Keyboard When He First Joined Radiohead. This is the kookiest thing I have heard all week: Jonny Greenwood didn’t know how to play keyboard when he first joined Radiohead (when the band was still called On a Friday). Here’s what he told Terry Gross on a recent episode of Fresh Air:
The most beautiful suicide - kottke.org
WEBJul 16, 2008 · The most beautiful suicide. On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:
Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen - kottke.org
WEBMay 14, 2019 · Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of …
The NBA Court Database - kottke.org
WEBApr 13, 2018 · The NBA Court Database. Flickr user kodrinsky has compiled a massive collection of more than 1100 illustrations of NBA courts dating back to the 50s, an online museum of basketball hardwood. The collection contains floors for every NBA team with additions documenting even small changes in arena names, team logos, free-throw lane layouts, paint schemes, sponsors, and even wood patterns.
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
WEBIn November 2023, he published an exquisitely designed fine art edition with color photography, limited to 2500 copies (of which ~900 remain), and priced at $100. The mass market version, published by Random House, is an expanded version of the fine art edition retailing for $31 ($15 on Kindle). Craig explains:
How a Six-Year-Old Kid Saved Himself from Being Lost in the Woods
WEBNov 26, 2018 · When he was six years old, Cody Sheehy got lost in the woods near his home in Oregon. Rather than panic or hunkering down to await rescue, Sheehy hiked more than 15 miles over 18 hours to a nearby town, finding himself in the process. Cody believes that he was changed by getting lost. “Over the course of …
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