君子不器
Yeung Kai, 82, has devoted his life to the unique, expressive calligraphy style used on Hong Kong neon lights and shop signs, a trade that is now dying. A graphic designer is digitising the characters for a typeface to give it new life… Sign of the times: calligraphy of Hong Kong neon lights dying out
六四情侣：于世文和陈卫的故事 1989 Tiananmen Sq. couple’s story
New Flight MH370 Probe Shows Controls Manipulated, But Mystery Remains Unsolved KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 (Reuters) – Investigators released a report on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday, saying the Boeing 777′s controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible. The 495-page…
Aliens might have lived on the moon I’ve been saying this for years…
The Letterman Clip That Became David Foster Wallace’s First Print Story In 1989, Playboy was preparing to publish a story from a new collection by a young writer named David Foster Wallace when some editors happened to catch a two-year-old episode of Late Night with David Letterman. There, onscreen, were Letterman and his guest, the…
Gore Vidal’s essay, “Sex Is Politics” “Sex Is Politics,” by Gore Vidal, Playboy, January 1979: The sexual attitudes of any given society are the result of political decisions. ….. Although our notions about what constitutes correct sexual behavior are usually based on religious texts, those texts are invariably interpreted by the rulers in order…