Original Prototypes

These images from Wired are so neat, early prototypes for some of our most popular tech today. Here's Apple I from 1975: A 25-year-old engineer at Hewlett-Packard, Steve Wozniak was using his spare time to design a language interpreter for a new 8-bit microprocessor called the MOS 6502. But even though the motherboard he created was smaller and less complex than other kits on the market, and even though Wozniak gave away the schematics for free, hobbyists still found the board difficult to build. So Woz and his high school pal Steve Jobs, who was working at Atari, decided to sell preassembled boards—which they dubbed the Apple I. They built them at night in Jobs’ parents’ garage, paying Jobs’ sister $1 a board to insert chips. In 1976, they produced 200 units and sold 150 of them for $500 apiece, a tidy 100 percent markup over cost. The only drawback to the Apple I: It offered dynamic RAM but no permanent storage, so you had to plug in your own cassette drive to save anything.

And..the super soaker. 

Steve McQueen & wife Neile

This photo is so pretty to me this morning, posted by Lola is Beauty.

Blowing my mind with beauty

Yes to all looks. Yes yes yessss

eek, BPA found in receipts

NBC recently ran a feature claiming "human exposure to the controversial chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, is much higher than some previous estimates and likely comes from some sources that are still unknown." One newly discovered source they highlight is cash register receipts, with studies showing that BPA is rubbed off on consumer's hands when receipts are handled. And apparently companies worldwide use register receipt paper that's laden with the substance. BPA is shown to mimic hormones, and exposure over time is linked with breast cancer in women because our bodies have a difficult time completely ridding our systems of the substance once exposed. And as we continue to find new ways that BPA gets in our systems, I wish I had a better conclusion than awareness here, but, I guess that's where change starts. 

Murakami art installment at Versailles

This must be amazing in person, such an interesting amalgam of old and new.

Tim Burton's ode to Johnny Depp

I like this. Per Jezebel it was written in 1992 before they worked together.

Parks & Rec in the meantime!

Parks & Recreation was only renewed for half a season this year, sad face. BUT, while we wait for it's debut, nymag is posting weekly installments of content from the cast and writers..smiling face! This week's is Nick Offerman coming back from homelessness in order to play Ron Swanson, hilarious. My favorite is him being "professionally dried".