Space!

NASA doesn’t have one of the prettiest sites on the internet, but it is the most dynamic and vital among American government sites. A little digging and a user can unearth all sorts of treasures. A great one is the Apollo 11 Image Library, which features high and low quality scans of almost every single photograph the Apollo 11 crew took during their flight. There are hundreds of images on that page, from the familiar, iconic images NASA released following the mission, to a few shots when Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin accidentally hit the shutter on their cameras while they were pointed at the ground. It’s an archival page, and NASA, to their credit, shows just about all they have…except for the aliens…or Kubrick. Here are a few of my favorites:

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Keep Disrupting

At the right time, we’ll keep disrupting and keep discovering new things that people didn’t know they wanted.

—Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Inc., from his interview in Bloomberg BusinessWeek

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The Politics of Disgust

David Pizarro gives a great TED Talk on the politics of disgust:

What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between sensitivity to disgusting cues — a photo of feces, an unpleasant odor — and moral and political conservatism. (Filmed at TEDxEast.)

David Pizarro is a psychologist interested in how certain emotions (disgust, fear, anger) affect our moral judgment.

This reminds me of Dan Ariely’s book, Predictably Irrational. We like to believe we’re logical, rational animals, but we’re far from it.

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Pyschology

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Letterman’s Interview Sucked

There’s a reason this site is called ‘Daily Exhaust’. Most of the time I use to capture things of artistic, cultural or technological significance, but sometimes it’s just to vent. To get exhaust out of my engine.

After watching John Stewart’s great interview with George Carlin back in 1997 , I’m even more aware of just how horrible a job Dave Letterman did interviewing Led Zeppelin the other day (via Jim Dalrymple).

From Dave’s stammering and stuttering to his borrowing of Jack Black’s jokes, the whole thing just felt really awkward.

Dave’s lucky the gentlemen in Led Zeppelin are not only amazing musicians but culturally astute and funny bastards.

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Entertainment

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Carlin & Stewart

John Stewart interviews George Carlin. 1997. Fucking awesome.

I like how Carlin refers to his alcoholic father (that he never knew) as brilliant, but “couldn’t metabolize ethanol efficiently.”

Not to mention his great insights into drugs, work ethic and how he saw himself as an artist on a journey, not necessarily just a comedian.

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Process

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