Fortune profiled the Hell’s Angels in 1992 (via Noah Brier).

It’s a dry piece, but this bit about how they used to call themselves One-Percenters is great (not to be confused with the Muslim Five-Percenters):

What makes the Angels and the lesser outlaws so distinctive among criminal enterprises—and adds to the frustration of law enforcement officials—is that many Americans celebrate them and identify with them. Back in the 1950s, the American Motorcyclist Association, the voice of legitimate riders, pronounced that ”only 1%” of all riders were troublemakers. The outlaws gleefully accepted the label, and many still call themselves one-percenters. (The actual percentage is much smaller—counting the hangers-on police call associates, only about 0.2% of the estimated nine million motorcyclists in the U.S.) And plenty of people—including many who have never even sat on a motorcycle—like their style and applaud them for defying convention and authority.

I used to live a few blocks away from the Hell’s Angels NYC headquarters in the East Village. Definitely not the kind of guys you want to mess with.

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New movie from Joseph Kosinski (director of Tron: Legacy).

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It’s great to see the Daily Exhaust fumes traveling around the tubes*.

*Notice how I don’t watermark my images? You know why? These don’t belong to me, even (other peoples’) quotes I create in Photoshop and the scans I scan myself. These images belong to everyone.

taken from the poem, the suburban prophets (for R.D.D.) (c. 1960?), by d.a. levy

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To follow up my last film post, here’s some more media to enjoy this weekend:

A Short History of the Gif (about 2 minutes)

Quentin Tarantino’s 75 Minute Interview with Howard Stern (audio only)

Update: I need to add another short docu: A New Wave of Barbershops (via). In addition to Magnus Walter, this is yet another reason I’m getting more excited about living in LA the longer I live here.

Update 2: Yet another awesome short film film about an awesome car restoration out of Los Angeles. Bodie Stroud *sorta* restores a 1969 Boss Mustang. (via Shawn Blanc)

I’m building for myself on spec. It’s this out-of-control hobby vibe of just enjoying the process all the way through.

—Magnus Walker

Urban Outlaw (via So It’s Come To This) feels like a documentary specifically made for me. It’s about Magnus Walker—a Porsche enthusiast who owns and has restored every 911 between 1964 and 1972 (approx. 32 minutes):

This film resonates to me on a few important levels:

—Magnus is an autodidactic engineer like my father. He has little formal education. What he didn’t know he figured out. And he didn’t care what the “rules” were.

—He loves cars Porsches, and restores them himself. He designs his restorations based on his taste, not what other prospective clients might want.

—The film uses a great track from one of my favorite bands, The Kills.

—He designs and sells his own clothes. Again, like the cars, clothes he would like to wear. I’ve long been obsessed with graphic tees and have started making my own (see the sidebar of this site).

—He has a great wife. Examples of great marriages are between people who share the same values. After seeing what his wife was able to do with their dilapidated industrial property in the Arts District of Los Angeles, and they you look at what he’s able to do with old Porsches, it all makes sense. I feel the same way about my wife. She’s fanatical about fashion the way I’m fanatical about design and technology and cars.

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:

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

Grammarist schools us on the difference between login and log in.

Might be obvious to many, but I see them used incorrectly all the time.

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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.

Mashable updated with a new, responsive design.

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