"There's the donut and there's the hole, you should keep your eye on the donut"-David Lynch
Word of the day: Anathema-something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
1. David Lynch writes a memoir — but reveals only more mysteries (Washington Post)
Easily one of my Top 10 favorite directors. He has a 600 page memoir coming, and I don't expect it to be normal in any fashion.
"For instance, as a child, biking around picket-fenced neighborhoods, he was fascinated by homes where 'the lights were dim. . . . I’d get a feeling from these houses of stuff going on that wasn’t happy.'" -Charles Arrowsmith
This book is going to take you to a different place, a place you'd rather not be.
2. The Soviet Laser Space Pistol, Revealed (Popular Mechanics)
I don't know how I feel about this. Should we have guns in space? That opinion is probably informed based on how you feel about having guns on Earth. I've seen plenty of movies where they have guns in space, but knowing that a country was actually designing a weapon to carry in space makes me feel weird.
Apparently the USSR made a space cannon that they actually fired in 1975. Again, space ships shooting at each other in movies seems completely normal, but in real life it sounds insane.
3. Fun Fact: NPR's Terry Gross has done all of her interviews with audio only.
Even if someone is in studio, the interview was not done face to face. The rationality behind this was that the piece was going to be consumed as audio only, so why not make the interviews audio only. A face to face interview changes the entire dynamic of a conversation. This fun fact came from Sam Harris on a podcast, I have not been able to verify this claim, but it makes sense.
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