‘The Mikey Mouse gas mask was created in January 1942 by T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval. This design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask for children was presented to Major General William N. Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear it as part of a game. After approval of the CWS, Sun Rubber Products Company produced approximately 1,000 masks. They were never used and after the war they were distributed to senior officers as keepsakes.” - Major Robert Walk (via The Mickey Mouse Gas-Mask, 1942)
These emails sent to me, yet not for me, just keep getting better.
Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup (via Waxy.org)
“Beautiful Screaming Lady”
(via The Best Word Book Ever 1963 and 1991)
In our culture, we’re suspicious of strangers. They’re a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web. They are what give the Web its matter, its shape, its value. Rather than hiding in our tents and declaring our world to exist of the other tents near us — preferably with a nice tall wall around us — the Web explicitly is a world only because of the presence of so many strangers.
— David Weinberger, linked from an older post on Caterina’s blog (via cacioppo)
(via cacioppo)
