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A similarly wet stretch in early July dumped four years’ worth of rain in one day on coastal Antofogasta. That was just a quarter of an inch (more than 6.3 millimeters) but it was still enough to cause collapsed or leaking roofs in homes and businesses that usually have no reason to protect themselves against even minimal precipitation. … Average annual rainfall in the northern city of Arica is so low that it would take 50 years to accumulate an inch.
Not ready for the rain, in northern Chile — Marginal Revolution
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, cited by First Rate Intelligence « Only Once – Matt Blumberg
Solution simple à un problème compliqué – Boing Boing
Comment éclairer l’intérieur des habitations de fortune avec simplement de l’eau et du détergent…
Hotel Trials Snore Absorption Room – PSFK
Crowne Plaza is trying to cut down on sleepless nights for its guests by installing a snore absorption room in its hotels.
Where the heck were you when the page was blank?” – Paul Butterworth
There is no place for just shitting all over other people’s work – (37signals)
Three In 10 UK Children ‘Own No Books’ – PSFK
“To be brutally honest we weren’t expecting [the number of children without their own books] to be so high. We know that book ownership in this country is really strongly linked to literacy issues and social mobility.”
via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/three-in-10-uk-children-own-no-books.html#ixzz1TEoZeKQD
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