“If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.”
— Charlie Brooker on the social nature of apps, The Gaurdian
$207 million U.S. dollars, 18 million Mexican pesos, 200,000 euros, 113,000 Hong Kong dollars, 11 centenarios (Mexican gold bullion coins made of 1.20565 oz t (37.5 g) of pure gold), and a large amount of jewels of unknown value.
Crackdown on smuggler in Mexico, seizing a lot of cash! Wonder how much disappeared in to the bulletproof vests of Mexico’s finest before someone got their camera out..
Have a look at Listverse for more amazing real pictures spread across the internet.
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Good Vibrations with the Beach Boys from ’Lost Recording Sessions 1963-1968’
Thinking that I used to dismiss The Beach Boys for making too happy and cheery music, when it’s a lot of times very sad stuff wrapped in sunshine and ocean breeze
Scenes From an Opium Den - LIFE
A relaxing smoke of opium. An opium den in China in 1942 from LIFE Magazine
Man has been indulging in the pleasures of the poppy since at last 4200 B.C., but it was in the 15th century in China that the smoking of opium was refined into the culture we think of today. In the 15th century, the drug and addiction became such an issue that the Qing Dynasty attempted to ban opium. That led to Britain and France launching wars with China over British and French companies’ right to sell the relatively cheap drug to the Chinese people.
More images at LIFE
Dinner for one
Tinned sardines, roasted vegetables, a slice of bread from E5 Bakery and the new house red (French Merlot) from Borough Wines on Wilton Way.
The sky, and a branch, over Ljusterö in the Stockholm archipelago on Christmas Eve 2011. Click on the image for higher res and more stars.
Andy Spain has photographed West London’s Trellick Tower from 1972 and other grey but pungent London architecture.
See more at The Telegraph.
