September 2009
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“Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools; they have need of...”
– Bellmour, in Congreve’s “The Old Bachelor”
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The Beatles - “Revolution” Hey Jude...
August 2009
64 posts
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“In this way your corn-ears will bow to the ground with fullness if the Olympian...”
– Hesiod, Works and Days
Confessions of an Item Hoarder →
Oh my god, this guy has the exact same gaming affliction I do. Never use the Tanuki or Hammer Bros suit, go through all of Final Fantasy 3 without using an X-Potion or Megalixir, and save all your high-powered weaponry for an encounter that will never come… but the worst by far is my tendency to save bombs in top-down shooters. I’ll die rather than use a bomb, which makes no sense...
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“Do not let a flaunting woman coax and cozen and deceive you: she is after your...”
– Hesiod, Works and Days
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“To you, foolish Perses, I will speak good sense. Badness can be got easily and...”
– Hesiod, Works and Days
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WatchFinally! The slow-mo footage we shot in New York when has been assembled into this most glorious tribute to “Sara Smile,” which we were humming the whole time I was there.
Dee-oot-doo-woo….
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“Explain all that,” said the Mock Turtle.
“No, no! The adventures...”
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Fridge - “Cut Up Piano and Xylophone”...
Wired's selection of the best science... →
Absolutely amazing simulations and presentations of data, both natural and experimental. Beautiful and fascinating videos.
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Soft Canyon - “For You” Broken Spirit,...
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The Psychic Paramount - “Para5”...
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“…Like as the ink-fish, they say, eludeth his pursuers…”
– Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand A-Year
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“Mr. Titmouse did, to a great degree, bedizen his back - at the expense of his...”
– Samuel Warren, in Ten Thousand A-Year
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“It’s a social disorder, it’s a conversational disorder, the fact...”
– Sam Harris (in an interview with Bill Maher)
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“Content with poverty my soul I arm,
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me...”
– Horace (trans. Dryden)
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CFCF - “The Explorers” Panesian...
Pitchfork's top 500 tracks of the 2000s - barf →
I haven’t trusted Pitchfork as a reliable source of good music judgment in years, though they’re great at getting the newest of the new. Their top tracks from the 2000s appears to be completely arbitrary.
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Words from an evolutionary history of religion
metempsychosis: belief in reincarnation (as animals and plants included) teraphim: household gods, worshiped by early Hebrews via idols eidolon: a phantom, apparition, or idol
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My Education - “Concentration Waltz” 5...
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Soderbergh goes off on TV aspect ratios →
Format stuff is one of my technology hobby-horses, and it looks like it’s one of Soderbergh’s, too. He makes a good argument for directors and producers banding together to demand their work not be cut to pieces in order to fit on a screen.
Please don't sneeze on the international standard →
This is interesting. The international standard for a kilogram (as well as other measurements) is actually based on a single object, defined as being exactly a kilogram, which is kept very safe at a center near Paris. The thing is, since the object is defined as the kilogram, it doesn’t matter what weight it actually is. If it changes weight over time somehow, the actual quantity known as a...
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“It is said (though not confirmed) that Otto von Bismarck challenged Rudolf...”
– Wikipedia - Dueling
Download The Pirate Bay →
Worried that TPB may disappear overnight? It’s a real risk, so why not help out in the backup effort? A user has collected all the torrents on the site (about 850,000 - another 1.2 million are not hosted on TPB) into a single torrent totaling 21.3GB. It’s still only got one seeder (the guy) but having a few copies of this around will mean that imitation and temporary Pirate Bay-ish...
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“So the birthers, the anti-tax tea-partiers, the town hall hecklers — these...”
– In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition
Rick Perlstein, The Washington Post
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TK Webb - “The Devil’s A Dork (The Sea...
Who am I to stand in the way of evolution?
A little spider was on the wall in my bathroom and, having no glass handy, I decided I should smush it. I’m not always so cruel, but I was in a hurry. Tissue in hand, I reached up to get him and at the last moment he sprang out of the way. Curses! He ran down the wall, so I tried again, but this time he zipped onto the tissue and immediately shot off on a thread, nearly landing on me. I...
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“There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the...”
– Victor Hugo