Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza
Played, reviewed and fact-checked. With the Yakuza. Several months ago, I introduced you to Jake Adelstein, the fearless-to-a-fault Jewish-American reporter who spent 12 years as a crime beat reporter in Japan and wrote about it in his book Tokyo Vice. In Tokyo Vice, we meet Adelstein's arch-nemesis, a former yakuza boss named Tadamasa Goto; we also learn Adelstein he has a hodge podge of allies in the pervasive Japanese underworld.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM » Frames of Mind
There is a word that is constantly used when describing Banksy or his art. Subversive: In a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, an exhibition is taking place. There is a cozy living room installation with deep pink and gold colored wallpaper covering the wall.
Access Your iDevice Like an IT Ninja with Phone Disk [Review
Phone Disk, from Macroplant, is a utility for Mac OS X (and Windows) that runs quietly in the background on your computer until you plug-in an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad using a USB sync cable. Plugging in your favorite iDevice causes Phone Disk to seamlessly mount the iOS file system on that device to your computers file system. Once mounted you can directly access the files on that device using Finder (and Windows explorer) or any other program. You’ll be interested in this application if you’re an IT Ninja looking for another good troubleshooting utility to carry around or you’re simply curious about the data that resides on your favorite iDevice. Phone Disk Preferences. What’s Good?
StoryCulture
© Hans Silvester. All rights reserved. My post about the beautiful people of the Surma and Mursi tribes in the L'Omo Valley on the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sudan, who were photographed by Hans Silvester, is by far the favorite of StoryCulture's readers.
Headline: A Free Customizable Tumblr Theme – Page 1
6:41 pm - Fri, Jan 11, 2013 3 notes It’s been over 2 years since Headline was released, and I’m thankful to the 9,000+ users who have installed it. A big mahalo to all of you (especially you Rolling Stone)!
Elitism
‘La scultura lingua morta III’, the first solo show at the gallery by Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò. ‘La scultura lingua morta III’ gravitates around sculpture, a discipline that the artist has been following for years, alongside site-specific and performative works. Sculpture is therefore the result of an entropic process of transformation that starts with a human, natural gesture, which extends in space and time and crystallises into an object; an object which represents through its form and material the last stage of the modification of matter. In this way, the form of the Hourglass (Clessidra) provides a synthesis into an absolute form based on the corrosion of wood when left in water, subject to the constant vertical movement of the tide. The wood is copied and is then cast in bronze, a transformation into an incorruptible material which is almost capable of suspending time and revealing it to be static, unmoving.
Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws
What seemed to be flaws in the structure of a mystery metal may have given physicists a glimpse into as-yet-undiscovered laws of the universe. The qualities of a high-temperature superconductor — a compound in which electrons obey the spooky laws of quantum physics, and flow in perfect synchrony, without friction — appear linked to the fractal arrangements of seemingly random oxygen atoms. Those atoms weren’t thought to matter, especially not in relation to the behavior of individual electrons, which exist at a scale thousands of times smaller. The findings, published Aug. 12 in Nature, are a physics equivalent of discovering a link between two utterly separate dimensions. “We don’t know the theory for this,” said physicist Antonio Bianconi of Rome’s Sapienza University.
2008 December 11 - At the Center of the Milky Way
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 December 11 At the Center of the Milky Way Credit: ESO, Stefan Gillessen (MPE), F. Eisenhauer, S. Trippe, T.
Found in Mom's Basement
1940s ad for A-penn products: 1948 ad for Revlon cosmetics: 1950s ad for Revlon cosmetics:
LE MANS & BEYOND GRATUITOUS 1970s RACING GOODNESS
Steve McQueen at the legendary 1970 12 Hours of Sebring Race where McQueen (partnered with c0-driver Peter Revson) raced with a broken left foot in a cast against racing great, Mario Andretti. McQueen is sporting his iconic ’67 Rolex Submariner that went for $234,000 at auction in 2009. BTW – Anyone else feeling the “Brian Johnson AC/DC ” vibe here with the black leather 8-panel cap?
