Son of Whimsey

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

—Samuel Ullman

A 15 year old girl sacrificed during the Inca Empire for both purposes of religious rite and social control. She was chosen a year prior to her death, fed a ritualistic diet for an approximate twelve months to make her gain weight, then was drugged and left on the shrine at Volcano Llullaillaco, where she was left to die of exposure. For five hundred years, her body had been preserved at 82 ft. She is considered to be the best preserved Andean mummy ever uncovered. 

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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 La Muse Verte

A Visual Metaphor

Another Example of Why an Unrestricted Free Market Becomes Corrupt

Tobacco giants Philip Morris and British American Tobacco added appetite suppressants to cigarettes, according to the documents, released during litigation in the US. Four other major companies tested potential chemicals, including amphetamine and nitrous oxide

Professor David Hammond, a tobacco industry expert at Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada, said: "We don't know if appetite-suppressing molecules are still added, because compliance with additive regulations is poor and sensitive internal documents are usually shredded."


More at: The Independent

Toy Soldiers

Source Unknown. I found it on the Live Journal page of a young Russian woman.

Art Where it Wants to Be

Found these photos at twenty-two words and I liked them enough to want to share. There's art here, and humor.

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Ephemera and Whimsey

The mirny diamond mine in Russia is the world’s biggest hole - it’s 525 metres deep and 1.25km wide.The suction above the hole resulted in several helicopter crashes, so all flight above the hole is prohibited now.

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The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible. Capitalism works only if the vast majority of the population are kept poor enough to never quit working, are kept poor enough to accept distasteful jobs society cannot function without. If everyone were a millionaire, who would empty the trash or repair the sewers? It follows that the poorer the general population is made, the greater the worth of the money held by the wealthy, in terms of the lives which may be bought and sold with it.

—Michael Rivero

La Muse Verte 

 A Danish sperm bank uses this bicycle to transport samples.

Source: twentytwowords

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Take Our Country Back From Whom? (NSFW)

    Time to push back against the racism and the xenophobia...hard.