Geek Porn: Boing Boing gets back to basics. Which means large hi-res pictures of science. (It’s a hadron collider, for the curious.) [Boing Boing]
Cavalli’s Cans: Roberto Cavalli for Coca-Cola apparently means leopard-print soda bottles. And no, that’s not a joke. [Fashion Tribes]
Stop and Start: The best non-pornographic stop-motion animation the internet has to offer. [PSFK]
Mars Lives: NASA confirms there’s water ice on mars. Martian ice cubes can’t be far off. [DVICE]
Miss Saigon: Refinery29 ventures to the Orient…Ho Chi Minh city, to be specific. [Ref29]
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Maybe it’s just Godfather II, but there’s always been a certain mystique surrounding pre-Castro Havana. For a few years, it was on its way to becoming the Vegas of the Caribbean—that is, a city almost completely controlled by the mob. It operated under a kind of resort colonialism, with a government whose main concern seemed to be developing new cocktail recipes and keeping the showgirls coming.
Luckily, it’s not completely lost to history. Boing Boing pointed us to Peter Moruzzi’s Havana Before Castro, a quick, colorful tour of the city as a tropical playground. It doubles as a primer in 50s luxury, the beach look back when Miami was still just retirees and sailors.
Some of the spots are still there, if you feel like dodging the travel embargo, but this book may be as close as you’ll get.
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