Cruel and Unusual Geography

Computers are always giving us grief, and the term “computer bug” is bandied around to describe all sorts of things going wrong. While technically a “bug” is (uaually) a fault a the program running on the computer, there are exceptions.

Depending on whether you believe the US Navy or wikipedia the first actual computer bug was found in either 1945 or 1947.

First actual case of bug being found

It’s a moth, trapped between points in one of the large electromechanical computers of the day. The image is the page from the log book where it was taped after being extracted from the computer. If only present-day bugs were so easy to find and remove…

Here are a few tricks to play on your own brain in your spare time: how to induce a variety of hallucinations in yourself, courtesy of the Boston Globe.

Love this: a German street artist makes ghillie suits and wears them in shops.

He (?) says:

Urban Camouflage deals with the question how to camouflage
oneself and one’s identity in the urban space. Our costumes are
inspired by the «ghillie suits», the military camouflage suit. It was
an adventure to wear the suit in the stores because of the conflicts
with the employees, the reaction of the customers and also to see
the pretty well camouflage effect in a real situation.

See more photos and videos at Urban Camouflage.