Mad Quickies

Mad Quickies: Museum of Failure, Vandal Wiki Edits, Der Spiegel Cover, Duplicate Declaration, Carrie Tribute and More!

Good day, my lovelies! Even the Resistance has to stop occasionally for a cup of joe/tea/chai/bourbon and take a few minutes to enjoy the beauty/wonder/geekery/humor of the wide world and beyond. Therefore… onward!

A rare copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found — in England . The sleuths: Harvard University researchers Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen. But how did it get there? Via Amy

If you’re wondering about his weekend whereabouts, there is a website where you can ask Is Trump is at Mar-A-Lago?

Someone chained a cross to Gay Street in Greenwich Village. What happened next is beautiful.

The international community sees the congruity of the U.S. Potus and Kim Jong Un. Der Spiegel’s clever cover [gif] nails it.

A public art project is giving away 4,000 free copies of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. Via Jim

Painter and illustrator Olaf Hajek’s portraits of women and men and their extravagant hair/beards are inspired by South American folklore, mythology, and religion.

Everything You See and Hear Was Generated by a 256 Byte Program on a Commodore 64… “A Mind Is Born” an audiovisual masterpiece by Linus Akesson .

Harley-Davidson fragrance, Coca Cola Blak are just two of the items featured at the Museum of Failure. Bonus: links to other unusual museums in the story.

Bonus ridiculous thing for you: 10+ Of The Funniest Wikipedia Edits By Internet Vandals.

Occasionally, a propos of nothing, the internet will give up a fascinating page. This is one of those times. Explore Letter A Logo, Typography Gifs, and more!.

…………..

I cried throughout the entirety of this thing.
Here. It’s your turn.

Cast Members pay tribute to Carrie Fisher

…………..

Featured image is by Olaf Hajek.

…………..

Previous post

Frakta-ing the Market for Blue Bags

Next post

Mad Quickies: Rosa Parks House, Dronestagram, Smiling Assassins, Flight Lapse, Frog Lapse and More!

Donna

Donna

Geologic Universe, vault-keeper. Sheer Brick Studio, principal. Empty Set, designer. Bethlehem Mounties, media. Skepchick.

No Comment

Leave a reply
https://madartlab.com/mad-quickies-museum-of-failure-vandal-wiki-edits-a-mind-is-born-duplicate-declaration-carrie-tribute-and-more/
madartlab.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-47
102549
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:VDPJMOR33BA4ZPANLJQFDLDP2DXUDODA
<urn:uuid:af7586df-2d88-42cf-801b-7662a3f42822>
2017-11-20T00:23:21Z
104.27.191.23
text/html
sha1:I4DBMVORYJZAP7T5JLVNX2F25CTXPNTP
<urn:uuid:e55989b2-8051-472a-b375-5018e3073ec8>
https://madartlab.com/mad-quickies-museum-of-failure-vandal-wiki-edits-a-mind-is-born-duplicate-declaration-carrie-tribute-and-more/
length
response
<urn:uuid:e4dd0e94-9d48-44e5-932f-0cfd4f8a5e98>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-149-82-108.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-47
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for November 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf