Created by BLIND for the original movie. Thanks Kottke.

APA/Andreas Blaickner/Institut für Archäologien in Innsbruck

Thomas Bachnetzer from the Institute of Archeology at the University of Innsbruck (…) speaks of a sensational discovery: « The stone ax is probably to date in the end of the Neolithic period, beginning Bronze Age. From this epoch there are scarcely any large rock crystal artefacts, a hatchet is otherwise not known at all ».

Google translation of Beil aus Bergkristall als Sensation, an article in German.
Found in 2012, 70 km West from the Ötzi site. See Old snowshoe.
Currently on display in the exhibition « Bergauf Bergab – 10,000 years of mining in the Eastern Alps » (more) at the Vorarlberg Museum in Bregenz.

via Joe

Le village de Spiennes, à 6 km au sud-est de Mons (Hainaut), recèle sur près de 100 hectares les vestiges d’une activité minière vieille de 6 000 ans. Dès le milieu du Néolithique, le silex extrait du sous-sol fut taillé sur place, essentiellement pour la production industrielle de lames et de haches. Pour atteindre la matière première désirée, les mineurs de jadis n’ont pas hésité à creuser un nombre considérable de puits, certains dépassant 16 m de profondeur! L’essor de ces mines exceptionnelles correspond à une époque où, un peu partout en Europe, se développent des centres voués exclusivement à l’extraction et à la taille du silex. Parmi ceux-ci, Spiennes s’illustre tant par son ampleur, que par ses techniques minières originales. Ces qualités, alliées au potentiel archéologique du gisement, lui ont valu la reconnaissance de l’Unesco en décembre 2000.

Hélène Collet : Un centre minier néolithique inscrit au Patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco – tiré-à-part de la revue « L’Archéologue – Archéologie Nouvelle » 2002
Plus d’infos sur le site Minières néolithiques de silex de Spiennes et le blog Autour de Spiennes de la Société de Recherche préhistorique en Hainaut.

Remember that wait-ten-minutes-then-randomly-reload-to-see-if-anything-changed trick. It’s the sign of excellently designed consumer software.

Said Zeldman. Who adds:

…there’s a principle here. Several principles, actually. Tricking kids is wrong. Stealing is wrong. Building a beautiful front-end but neglecting customer service is wrong. Mainly, I’ve just had enough of 2016’s bullshit.
Fuck you, 2016.

The dream is not to become upper-middle-class, with its different food, family, and friendship patterns; the dream is to live in your own class milieu, where you feel comfortable — just with more money.

• Understand That Working Class Means Middle Class, Not Poor
• Understand Working-Class Resentment of the Poor
• Understand How Class Divisions Have Translated into Geography
• If You Want to Connect with White Working-Class Voters, Place Economics at the Center
• Avoid the Temptation to Write Off Blue-Collar Resentment as Racism

What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class, Joan C. Williams, Harvard Business Review, Nov 2016.

(via Dave Pell: What the Hell Just Happened?)
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Update: Read also Mike Konczal, Learning From Trump in Retrospect

https://youtu.be/pB81KMhGpqk

…anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car at an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling

https://player.vimeo.com/video/78314194
Via Kottke

Couldn’t resit.

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(via reddit)

Update: You like bears scratching themselves? So does the BBC. Excerpt from « Planet Earth II » series:

…the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
(…) May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy

From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790

Details here. Additional background there: Haven – From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America, an exhibition at the Library of Congress and permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History.

That guy is Mike Rowe. He says it even better in his reply to Industrial Safety and Hygiene News: ‘Dirty Jobs’ guy says Safety Third is “a conversation worth having”.
More from wher this came from at mikerowe.com. Defenitively not the motto of this famous youtube guy.

I found this while investigating the meaning of the sticker this other guy (his website) had on his workbench.

French Guys, you better check zis:

Depuis le 1er mars 1994, l’article 223-1 du Code pénal prévoit que : « Le fait d’exposer directement autrui à un risque immédiat de mort ou de blessures de nature à entraîner une mutilation ou une infirmité permanente par la violation manifestement délibérée d’une obligation particulière de sécurité ou de prudence imposée par la loi ou le règlement est puni d’un an d’emprisonnement et de 15000 euros d’amende. »