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George Mayerle’s eye chart featuring characters in English, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, as well as symbols for children or illiterate adults, 1907. (via The Verge)

George Mayerle’s eye chart featuring characters in English, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, as well as symbols for children or illiterate adults, 1907. (via The Verge)

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Any senator who’s expressing shock about the PRISM program is a liar or a fool. The Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees have been briefed on it many times. Committee members have had access to the relevant FISA court orders and opinions. The intelligence committee has also informed all senators in writing about the program, twice, with invitations to review classified documents about it prior to reauthorization. If they didn’t know about it, they weren’t paying attention.