Dirty-looking rascals, but I suppose every one has some little immortal spark concealed about him. You would not think it, to look at them. There is no a priori probability about it. A strange enigma is man!

Sherlock Holmes

Highest-paid, worst-performing CEOs

God, this is depressing. Apparently it’s not enough that we pay successful CEOs too much by a couple orders of magnitude; the error has to extend to the failures as well. What a world.

Step in, sir. Keep clear of the badger, for he bites. Ah, naughty, naughty; would you take a nip at the gentleman?” This to a stoat which thrust its wicked head and red eyes between the bars of its cage. “Don’t mind that, sir; it’s only a slowworm. It hain’t got no fangs, so I gives it the run o’ the room, for it keeps the beetles down.

Old Sherman in The Sign of the Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another painter to add to my stable of favorites: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. I recognize a few of his works but I’m surprised I hadn’t heard more of him before. Monet said of him, “We are nothing compared to him, nothing.”

Here is a complete archive of his works, in medium resolution.

Some other favorites:
The Evening
Souvenir of Ville d’Avrille
Winter Scene

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Johann Sebastian Bach, “Sonata in G, Andante”

Love this track. I saw it performed live in London by a very good pair of musicians and they really killed it. This version is good but the performers combined the mathematical precision with a bit of life to make something more of it.

Transfer of Napoleon’s ashes aboard the Belle Poule, October 15, 1840 (Louis Eugène Gabriel Isabey)

Yes, it was fun this week to watch the teabaggers complain how the media underestimated the size of their march, “How can you say there were only 60,000 of us? We filled the entire mall!” Yes, because you’re fat. One whale fills the tank at Sea World, that doesn’t make it a crowd.

Bill Maher in the Huffington Post

Wow, I just finished playing this fantastic little game. Check out that screenshot – and you go through like four more layers than it shows. Absolutely great.

Supermarket

How come I’ve never heard of this unbelievably cool store? Too bad everything is so goddamn expensive. I’m buying some stuff anyway.

That effect is so creepy. Always makes me dizzy when they use it in movies.

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)