rebarbative |rəˈbärbətiv|
adjective formal
unattractive and objectionable : rebarbative modern buildings. ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from French rébarbatif, -ive, from Old French se rebarber ‘face each other “beard to beard” aggressively,’ from barbe ‘beard.’
Via the OSX dictionary, thanks to @jeb.
No trip to Black Rock would be complete without plush chairs, windshield mounted machine guns and two sun-bleached skeletons.
After a rousing match on the Centaur Polo Grounds, we watch the youngsters childish diversions.
The playa is my private guns and girls paradise. I will also live to 100 now.
My bro Duncan keeps saying I can keep my flesh, but my water belongs to the tribe. I don’t know what his problem is.
Image captured from Dwell magazine.
More corroboration: http://marcosalas.blogspot.com/2010/05/bill-bryson-story-of-electric-light-for.html
Makeup ideas to discourage facial detection algorithms.
Via Adam Harvey.
“Jimmy Canales hides in plain sight in his anti-camouflage sniper’s Ghillie suit. Handcrafted from shredded serapes, it is intended to draw attention to the wearer and induce shamanic ecstasy in onlookers.”
A hardened computer hacker has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that systematically destroys all the files on victims’ PCs and replaces them with homemade manga images of squid, octopuses and sea urchins.
Between 20,000 and 50,000 computers may have been infected. Masato Nakatsuji, 27, of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, was quoted as telling police: “I wanted to see how much my computer programming skills had improved since the last time I was arrested.”
The virus gets its name because infected files are replaced by manga images of a squid, octopus or sea urchin. If the virus is left unchecked, all files in the computer’s hard disk become infected. When a user tries to open a file, all the individual can access is a manga image of a marine invertebrate.
Nakatsuji, who was convicted for violating copyrights in his previous case, was quoted as telling police he felt he would not be arrested again because he had created the manga images for Ikatako himself, therefore avoiding a violation of the copyright law.
From asahi, via @wonkybutt.
From the forthcoming blog/book project ghilliesuitorbadhaircut.com.
-Via @Jeb
An enormous ocean sunfish, caught by W.N. McMillan at Santa Catalina Isl., Cal. April 1st, 1910.