Links for 3/20/16

1958 Grazioso/Futurama Electric Guitar


 

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Source: vintage everyday: Picnic at Huntington Beach, California, 1937


 

On Saturday, NASA dropped a bombshell of a climate report. February 2016 has soared past all rivals as the warmest seasonally adjusted month in more than a century of global recordkeeping. The previous record was set just last month. Perhaps even more remarkable is that February 2015 crushed the previous February record–set in 1998 during the peak atmospheric influence of the 1997-98 “super” El Niño that’s comparable in strength to the current one–by a massive 0.47°C (0.85°F). Although the science of attributing extreme weather events to a warming climate is still evolving, February 2016 gave us a number of extreme weather events that were made more probable by a warmer climate.

Source: February Smashes Earth’s All-Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw-Dropping Margin | Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog


 

How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you’ve loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it again and again, to save what he could of the…

Source: A Life at sea, on land


 

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Links for 3/18/16

Thirty-eight seasons in Indo with the surfer, skipper, and explorer

Source: Interview: Jim Banks | The Surfers Journal


 

Divesting from fossil fuels required breaking a family tradition.

Source: My Oily Heirloom


 

Edward Curtis’ epic portraits of North American indians are a joy. And so too are his pictures of North America’s indigenous peoples dressed in ceremonial masks.

Source: Fantastic Photographs Of North American Indians In Ceremonial Masks (1905-1915) – Flashbak


 

10 track album

Source: Freakout | Trabants


 

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Our weekly look at a favorite new typeface. Share yours with us on Twitter and Instagram @AIGAdesign with #TypeTuesday. Name: Phoreus Cherokee Designer: Mark Jamra Foundry: Type Culture Release Date: 2014; version 2.0 in October 2015 Back story: In the summer of 2011, two representatives from

Source: A Typeface Designed to Revive the Endangered Cherokee LanguageEye on Design | Eye on Design

Links for 3/12/16

A mummified captain was found in a mystery boat drifting 40 miles from the shore…still sat in the seat where he is believed to have died.

Source: Mummified captain found in ‘ghost ship’ he sailed in for seven years after death


 

Concert Road Warriors – How To Show Your Affection For Your Favorite Bands – MTT – Music Think Tank


 

In 2014 the former press gallery journalist officially ‘quit’ Australia to form his own nation in Queensland. Almost two years later he is the Yidindji foreign minister, and it’s clear he’s doing much more than making a symbolic point

Source: Murrumu: one man’s mission to create a sovereign Indigenous country inside Australia


 

Video: Ryan Burch – Glider


 

Savage Islands – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


 

Limited 300 run black vinyl.

Source: THE THUNDERCHIEFS – “Crystal Beach” b/w “Creature From the Surfers Lagoon” 7″ — Spacecase Records

Links for 3/6/16

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Cáceres, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, was shot at home

Source: Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murdered


 

Forget the spread of ticks and mosquitos. Climate change could be responsible for bigger bites by drawing poisonous snakes northward into a band along the U.S. and Canadian border, as well as southward into wide swaths of South America.

Source: Snakes’ Expanding Habitat Could Bring Their Venom to Surprising Places


 

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