Some of the more delightful words apparently submitted for inclusion in the dictionary of (but subsequently rejected by) the Oxford University Press.
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An eloquent personal statement by cosplayer Hot Glue Burns (who is of Osage Nation and Oglala Lakota heritage) at San Diego Comic-Con 2019.
A tribute to the late, great Rutger Hauer by way of his star turn as Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’ (1982) by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy.
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Behold: the Ecurie Ecosse LM69 – a street legal race car built to 1969 FIA regulations. But why, for pity’s sake?
In 1956 and 1957, Ecurie Ecosse – a small Scottish racing team – won the coveted Le Mans title with customised Jaguar D-Types. Shut down in the 1970s, then revived in the 1980s, the company remains in operation today and now plans to revive the prototype Jaguar XJ13 – the car Jaguar envisioned for Le Mans before abandoning the entire project.
The LM69 is a vision of what might have happened had Jaguar updated the XJ13 to race at Le Mans in 1969 (hence the name). 25 of these 5.0l, V12 racers will be made – the exact number required to homologate the car for competition under 1969 rules.
From top: Neue Rathaus Munich; Music Box Steps Los Angeles; Livraria Lello & Irmão bookstore, Porto, Portugal; Tianmen Shen Zhangjiajie China; Hotel Bristol Palace Genoa; Herefordshire Beacon Malvern Hills and The ‘Exorcist Stairs’ Washington, D.C.
What’s that eerie glow down the highway? A still from ‘Stranger Things’? No, it’s dust orbiting the sun. To wit:
At certain times of the year, a band of sun-reflecting dust from the inner Solar System appears prominently just after sunset — or just before sunrise — and is called zodiacal light. Although the origin of this dust is still being researched, a leading hypothesis holds that zodiacal dust originates mostly from faint Jupiter-family comets and slowly spirals into the Sun. Recent analysis of dust emitted by Comet 67P, visited by ESA’s roboticRosetta spacecraft, bolster this hypothesis. Pictured when climbing a road up to Teide National Park in the Canary Islands of Spain, a bright triangle of zodiacal light appeared in the distance soon after sunset. Captured on June 21, the scene includes bright Regulus, alpha star of Leo, standing above center toward the left. The Beehive Star Cluster (M44) can be spotted below center, closer to the horizon and also immersed in the zodiacal glow.
(Image: Ruslan Merzlyakov (RMS Photography)
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Ewan McGregor and Ewen Bremner filming the opening scene of ‘Trainspotting’ in the summer of 1995.
A completely hand-made stop-motion short by Ri Crawford (narrated by Tom Waits) about a time when the moon was close enough to reach by ladder.
As that great era draws to a close, Captain Millipede and his crew set off to gather sweet, sweet moon milk from the craters one last time.