UN truck. Eyeore edition! Stockholm.
Ski photography competition – in pictures
Four of the world’s best action sports photographers were invited to Killer Loop Click on the Mountain, a photography competition in the Courmayeur Mont Blanc area. Accompanied by a team of professional snowboarders, skiers and an Alpine guide, they had four days to shoot a portfolio. See more
Photographs, top to bottom: Tim Lloyd (1), Marius Schwager (2 and 3).
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Eliza Bennett, “A Woman’s Work Is Never Done,” 2013
This has been making the rounds on the internet in the last few days, for good reason. It’s a remarkable tribute to “women’s work,” appearing both agonizingly painful and stunningly beautiful.
The work is a conscious inversion of gender roles, by applying a traditionally feminine craft in a way which exemplifies the traditionally male values of strength and suppressing any expression of pain.
Visit her website for a more complete explanation.
This is not the world of the systems hacker. When you debug a distributed system or an OS kernel, you do it Texas-style. You gather some mean, stoic people, people who have seen things die, and you get some primitive tools, like a compass and a rucksack and a stick that’s pointed on one end, and you walk into the wilderness and you look for trouble, possibly while using chewing tobacco.
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people’s mistakes.
