If @errolmorris documentaries teach us anything it's that everyone's running a hustle, whether it's McNamara trying to justify the Vietnam War with data science or a guy sitting on cheap land who sells pet cemetery plots to bored housewives.
Like the joke that Prussia was an army with a country attached to it, Liberty University is a football team that happens to be associated with a university. A true monument to southern rich guy determination. https://t.co/sX7WvFMBWp
In 1622, the Catholic League plundered a library from Protestant Germany and carried it off to Rome as a trophy. The fact that the Vatican still refuses to return the #bibliotecapalatina to Heidelberg University shows that the Roman Curia are a gaggle of bitter old queens.
These are statues of the early Roman emperors, with colour added.
The Romans painted their statues - this is reasonably close to how they would have looked in the emperors' lifetimes. The hair and eye colours are taken from ancient Roman descriptions.
Watching @BananaRex play #Spelunky2 for the first time last week was like seeing a kid who had been waiting 10 years for christmas day to come finally find the ten speed he wanted under the tree https://t.co/28lL4fRqwP
Johannes Trithemius presented his Steganographia (https://t.co/Cr0EFww0Bb) as a sexy and scintillating guide for summoning spirits. In reality it was just a exercise in cryptography, and the occult stuff was just a misdirect to distract readers from the real secrets.
Great interview with Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams. Interesting how he closes his eyes while answering the questions, like he's channelling his own thoughts and memories from some dark nether region, lost in an orphic trance. https://t.co/8wWLuvkCKS
Next time I get a sales call from StackMap llc trying to get me to buy a stack browsing tool for the price of a mid-size sedan, I'll bring up the #Prelingerlibrary: https://t.co/hn3cebqNmK
Forget Leaves of Grass, this data visualization of US economic history from the civil war to the great depression is America's real National Epic. https://t.co/155SAifT1I