Someone on @reddit made a Hillary Clinton Pantsuits Rainbow, and it’s beautiful.
Via @pourmecoffee.
Found Things is a compendium of curiosity.
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Why employees shouldn’t have hours
The traditional 9-to-5, 40-hour work week is just that: traditional. It’s a fossil from an era when the number of hours an employee clocked on a production line was a simplified measurement of productivity. Although the nature of work has clearly changed, businesses are still automatically adopting this rigid schedule without considering its effects on both employees and happiness - two things that should fall together seamlessly.
Xbox One: the most restrictive game console ever made
If the Xbox One is the future of gaming, then that future is as grim as everyone feared.
For anyone that ever wondered how London’s old Routemaster buses didn’t fall over, this is apparently how they found out.
Per police regulation, employees of the London General Omnibus Company put the 60-person bus to a “tilt test,” pushing it on a 28-degree angle.
Photo dated April 8, 1933.
Via The Lively Morgue.
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Qantas creates one-of-a-kind novels that last only as long as your flight
Qantas aims to provide a unique flying experience by offering specially curated books called ‘Stories For Every Journey’ for its passengers. These books are one-of-a-kind because each one is created to last just as long as the duration of your flight.
Cute idea.
The Australian airline worked with Droga5 and publishing house Hachette to create this series.
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Letter’s of note: people simply empty out
In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a writer. 49-year-old Bukowski did just that, and in 1971 his first novel, Post Office, was published by Martin’s Black Sparrow Press.
15 years later, Bukowski wrote the following letter to Martin and spoke of his joy at having escaped full time employment.
You can read the letter here.
Via @LaMujerObrera
Seems the rumours were true: Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m)
Yikes. I take this position.
Loving Faried Omarah’s work. Check it out.
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Our solar system, to scale.
Via @jamescowdery
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“Saddam is Here” - the photographer putting the ex-dictator back in frame
“When Saddam Hussein fell, we Iraqis were disoriented. For all our lives, he had always been there. His image was everywhere”, says photographer Jamal Penjweny, whose series Saddam is Here depicts Iraqis in everyday locations covering their faces with pictures of the former dictator.
“His image was in the cities where we live, on the walls of our schools, on our money, everywhere. Then he vanished. So taking a picture with Saddam was breaking a taboo that was created after the fall of the regime.”
From dentists, to butchers, to soldiers; Iraqis across the country took part in the Penjweny’s photographic series, covering their faces with pictures of the former dictator while in their everyday locations.
“All the people in the series, no matter where they’re from, in Baghdad as in Erbil, in Basra as in Fallujah, have a shared history of fear that we should overcome together. To build a better future we have to confront our past. Art has a key role in this.”
The idea for Saddam Is Here began in 2007 in Baghdad as Penjweny was covering the worst years of the conflict as a photojournalist. His work is one of the many art projects coming out of a post-war Iraq. A new book, titled “Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq,” presents eye witness accounts from photojournalists covering the Iraq war in an anthology of stories, individuals and acts of heroism that didn’t make headlines. And you can find the The Pavilion of Iraq at this years Venice Biennale, showing work from 11 Iraqi artists curated by Jonathan Watkins.
You can see more of Penjweny’s work on his site and
