I’ve noticed there are roughly two kinds of people: those who face reality and those who flee reality. SMBC again makes a pretty elegant summary of the arguments of Man vs The Inescapable. RJCP

Abandoned Soviet monuments that look like they’re from the Future. From a civilization that knows nothing but reinforced concrete, that is.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal sums up conservatism (of the Randian kind) pretty tighly. Inky

Interesting advertising idea: Canal+ film production flowcharts.

Spacewalks! MeFi

I was born on this very same day in 1979. (photo via Pedro Quintas)

Clement Valla’s Postcards from Google Earth.

How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me). Good advice.