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PHOTO of the day | June 15, 2013 | SYPHILIS | Women! Stay Away From Dance Halls! | 

Everything Bagel | jalapeño cream cheese | Murray’s Bagels

occupygezipics | Resist Ankara, you stubborn goat

wired | Google now testing internet services delivered by solar balloons |

Not much happens in Geraldine, a small farming community in the interior of the South Island of New Zealand, about 85 miles from Christchurch. So when Hayden MacKenzie, a fourth-generation farmer there, picked up the phone last Tuesday and got a request to participate in a secret project—one that he wouldn’t even learn about until he signed a vow of silence—he and his wife Anna figured that they’d take a shot. That evening, two men showed up at his cozy farmhouse. They bore a peculiar red device, a sphere slightly bigger than a volleyball perched on a short collar, and attached it to his roof. Then they left.

Only when the men returned the next day did they reveal what they were up to. Inside the red ball was an antenna that would give the MacKenzies Internet access. It was custom-designed to communicate with a similar antenna that would be floating by in the stratosphere, over 60,000 feet above sea level. On a solar-powered balloon.

Oh, and the men work for Google.

[MORE - EXCLUSIVE: How Google Will Use High-Flying Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands]

lacma | Nam June Paik | Happy Flag Day | #lacma

PHOTO of the day | June 14, 2013 | Chipping Campden

PHOTO of the day | June 13, 2013 | Game of THRONES | What is this SORCERY?

Game of THRONES | mannipro | The north never forgets

PALMS | Hawaii | Kona Coast

West 133rd and Riverside Drive

So LA! SKYNNY KITCHEN will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as smoothies and snacks, all at 500 calories or less, according to its website. Coming soon to West Hollywood.

thenewrepublic | How Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad Explain the British Empire | Maya Jasanoff. 

newyorkisforlovers | Manhattanhenge

PHOTO of the day | June 12, 2013 | parislemon | Simplified Blogging