May 2009
18 posts
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Up Close + Gross Mt St Helens Vietnam Band video
Pseudoscience lamp →
I can’t stand this. Watch the video of the guy talking about how his mood is affecting his ability to use ‘quantum consciousness measurements” or something to change the color of this stupid lamp. God, what a chump!
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The internet as lens for tragedy
The internet is the ultimate buffer to human contact and the realities of life. It’s amazing and depressing to think that you could spend your life without meeting another person and yet amass more knowledge than anyone in any previous age. Yet it’s run by people, obscured as they are behind user names, email addresses, and avatars. And in an event which has humanized the internet...
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Tunng - “Woodcat”
from Comments Of...
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Dickens URL
http://dickensurl.com/a447/Shes_the_ornament_of_her_sex
http://dickensurl.com/a391/A_wonderful_fact_to_reflect_upon_that_every_human_creature_is_constituted_to_be_that_profound_secret_and_mystery_to_every_other
Oh kangaroos. You are so mischevious. →
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“In this manuscript (which, as I have explained - for legal reasons as well as...”
– Dan Simmons (in the character of Wilkie Collins), Drood
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Yeasayer - No Need to Worry
from All Hour...
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Vocabulary: Fraught With Grammarye Edition
From Burton’s translation of the 1001 Nights.
grammarye: corruption of “grammary” or vice versa. General knowledge or erudition. nenuphar: the “great white water lily of Europe.” Okay… blee: complexion. carnelian: a type of red chalcedony made into jewelry. Was a descriptor for some lady’s lips. wot: know. Variation of “wit.” lout: bend or...