15th
An Orrery, as discovered by cedarbar:
I’d seen these before but never knew the term for them- they’re small machines that replicate our solar system and the orbits of the planets. Here is a link to a video of a really cool handmade one.
$1 DIY Popcorn popper
Reminds me of my Boy Scout days (there were about 7 of them before I quit)
Excellent article about the work of art in the age of infinite free automatic duplication of everything, ever
Tumblrs are like bedrooms, and we’re teenagers spending idle hours postering them with pictures and magazine cutouts. THIS is who we are, we’re showing.
Jay J. Armes, Private Investigator, PM MAGAZINE
I’ll admit it. There’s a part of me that hopes this is the sole 7 minutes of information that visitors from other worlds have to understand our civilization.
I totally had a Jay J. Armes action figure as a kid and was pretty obsessed with his whole deal for a few months. But, if I’d witnessed the awesomeness of this video at age 10, I would have completely lost it. As I did tonight over three consecutive viewings. Wow.