Touch it, dude!
—Barack Obama, instructing a 5-year-old to touch his hair. The child had asked “if my hair is just like yours.” (via officialssay)
(Source: political-cartoons)
Cape Town to get cruise liner terminal
It has taken years of intense lobbying, but now plans are under way for Cape Town to get a cruise liner terminal at Table Bay Harbour.
And the move will no doubt boost the city’s tourism income substantially.
Last week Transnet issued a call for submissions of interest in the funding, construction and operation of a terminal.
In January Home Affairs banned cruise liners from docking at the V&A Waterfront’s Jetty Two, citing security concerns which left passengers of the Queen Mary 2, on a visit to the city, to disembark from the Eastern Mole and having to negotiate railway lines, manholes and bollards.
The tender notice published last week called on interested parties to attend a briefing on June 6 ahead of submissions closing on June 29.
Transnet property manager Johan Claasen said after June 29 it would be decided whether to take it on to the next stage.
Source: IOL
Images: City of Cape Town
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring” — Terri Guillemets
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future” — George Bernard Shaw
Located in a shantytown south of Bogotá, this 700-square-meter canopy is suspended over a sports court-cum-public square. More at Architizer
這座700平方公尺的頂篷位於哥倫比亞波哥大，成為運動場兼公共空間的遮蔽物。
When the women joked that it would be interesting to see how their male co-workers would function if the gender count was swapped, they collectively looked to [Larry] Wilmore who deadpanned, “I’m sorry. I wasn’t listening to anything you were saying.” I personally was not sure if he was just trying to be funny or if he was revealing something deeper by suggesting that the idea that men wouldn’t listen to women speak is funny.
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?
—Sandi Toksvig (via catrinwrites, learninglog)
