var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-17912179-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); var sc_project=5877160; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="47cbd571"; Tumblr (3.0; @meansofdistraction)http://meansofdistraction.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xeoiXoox1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22921673301http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22921673301Sat, 12 May 2012 22:09:54 +0200historyphotography<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xeiwDA3Q1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22921478468http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22921478468Sat, 12 May 2012 22:06:32 +0200word of advice<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lUZ-e2SkeMI?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>High-speed imagery.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22550114037http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22550114037Mon, 07 May 2012 01:12:10 +0200<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mhz60N7B1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22548438002http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22548438002Mon, 07 May 2012 00:47:30 +0200word of advice<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mhv4rloh1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201205/george-wright-fugitive-capture-story?printable=true&mobify=0" target="_blank">Uncatchable</a></p> <p>George Wright, America’s most elusive fugitive, ran for forty years. He ran from the cops after escaping from prison. He ran from the feds after the most brazen hijacking in history. He ran from the authorities on three continents, hiding out and blending in wherever he went. It was a historic run—and now that it’s over, he might just pull off the greatest escape of all.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22548274900http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22548274900Mon, 07 May 2012 00:45:03 +0200Crimearticle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mhr9fvlb1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201204/the-mysterious-case-the-vanishing-genius" target="_blank">The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius</a></p> <p>Margie Profet was always a study in sharp contradictions. A maverick thinker remembered for her innocent demeanor, she was a woman who paired running shorts with heavy sweaters year-round, and had a professional pedigree as eccentric as her clothing choices: Profet had multiple academic degrees but no true perch in academe. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Profet published original theories about female reproduction that pushed the boundaries of evolutionary biology, forcing an entire field to take note. Indeed, back then it was hard not to notice Margie Profet, a vibrant young woman who made a “forever impression” on grade school chums and Harvard Ph.D.s alike. Today, the most salient fact about Profet is her absence. Neither friends, former advisers, publishers, nor ex-lovers has any idea what happened to her or where she is today. Sometime between 2002 and 2005, Profet, who was then in her mid-40s, vanished without a trace.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22548116483http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22548116483Mon, 07 May 2012 00:42:45 +0200psychologyarticle<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3mho5KA9x1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Amazing.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22547986716http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22547986716Mon, 07 May 2012 00:40:51 +0200cinema<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/41009719" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Patterned by Nature</p> <p>The content cycles through twenty programs, ranging from clouds to rain drops to colonies of bacteria to flocking birds to geese to cuttlefish skin to pulsating black holes.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22509240370http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22509240370Sun, 06 May 2012 13:01:28 +0200artinstallationvideo<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3h48mLpjI1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I actually miss him a lot.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22355289903http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22355289903Fri, 04 May 2012 03:02:45 +0200historyofmusic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3h3e0gI5q1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22353892085http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22353892085Fri, 04 May 2012 02:44:23 +0200<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3f7raqPQf1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Illusion of Choice.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22288514440http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22288514440Thu, 03 May 2012 02:23:34 +0200marketing madness<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3f73avyyC1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22287369026http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22287369026Thu, 03 May 2012 02:09:08 +0200artandmusic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3f6v9lHH41qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22286981384http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22286981384Thu, 03 May 2012 02:04:21 +0200word of advice<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P0xVp3N-M84?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Samsara -  In August 2012 the Makers of Baraka finally return.</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22231445919http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22231445919Wed, 02 May 2012 03:07:09 +0200cinema<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u0-zCwSfkOo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Incredible Kaleidoscopic Dance Video for TED</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22230954540http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22230954540Wed, 02 May 2012 03:01:13 +0200kineticart<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m390kfn8NM1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053628612http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053628612Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:02:38 +0200word of advice<object width="400" height="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/rvmb8oussWs&hl=de_DE&fs=1?rel=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/rvmb8oussWs&hl=de_DE&fs=1?rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="25"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://youtu.be/rvmb8oussWs" target="_blank">POLICA - Amongster</a></p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053364306http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053364306Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:58:19 +0200musicplayer<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw74g7IBDK1qc1y9zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Salvador Dali and Harpo Marx</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053359327http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053359327Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:58:15 +0200historyphotography<div class="title"><strong>Into My Own<br/><br/></strong></div> <p>One of my wishes is that those dark trees,<br/> So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,<br/> Were not, as &#8216;twere, the merest mask of gloom,<br/> But stretched away unto the edge of doom.<br/><br/> I should not be withheld but that some day<br/> Into their vastness I should steal away,<br/> Fearless of ever finding open land,<br/> Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.<br/><br/> I do not see why I should e&#8217;er turn back,<br/> Or those should not set forth upon my track<br/> To overtake me, who should miss me here<br/> And long to know if still I held them dear.<br/><br/> They would not find me changed from him the knew&#8212;<br/> Only more sure of all I though was true.</p> <p><em>Robert Frost - A Boy&#8217;s Will (1913)</em></p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053354632http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22053354632Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:58:10 +0200poetry<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2aCOyOvOw5c?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Riding the Booster</p>http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22043981992http://meansofdistraction.com/post/22043981992Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:32:59 +0200spacesciencevideo