July 2009
June 2009
“Hogwarts doesn’t appear to offer a sex ed class, which I guess makes sense...”
– Sex and Harry Potter - Ta-Nehisi Coates (via sexartandpolitics)
“92-year-old Grandma Hayes attributes her long life and good health to the fact...”
– Language Log » Puzzling passive
What a great sentence!
1 tag
State Park manager fired for sexual harassment of... →
mabelmoments:
wooliebear:
jhnbrssndn:
up-schist-creek:
Claims that it shouldn’t be a crime to try to get some tail, it will be a total fluke if he is convicted.
Sounds like he has no trust in the scales of justice.
They’re just fishing for something.
Cynics, it was totally a case of a-moray.
Ariel repeatly told the man, “My name does not end in ‘ola’!”
Cat intelligence - Wikipedia →
purr my previous post
Bronchiolitis obliterans - Wikipedia →
Bronchiolitis obliterans, or Constrictive bronchiolitis, one form of which is called Popcorn Workers’ Lung or popcorn lung, is a rare and life-threatening form of non-reversible obstructive lung disease in which the bronchioles (small airway branches) are plugged with granulation tissue.
Making some popcorn!!!
Hall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That (No...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
Animal Collective (12)
House (8)
Hall & Oates (4)
The Fall (4)
New Order (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“It moves me as no other Modern artform can, because music is never primarily...”
– [Audio] – Steve Reich – “Piano Phase” (1967) « Musicophilia Daily
And after four days I finally have Internet here...
“An elitist used to be a person who believed in rule by the best and brightest —...”
– Geoffrey Nunberg (via azspot, monkeytypist)
Auto Nunberg reblog. Also, that last sentence is fucking awesome.
Language Log: Experiencing Language Death →
monkeytypist:
Nobody ever seems to take a moment to pause and think about:
What if the language you were born into was dying?
I do think Crystal’s book Language Death didn’t have enough firsthand accounts of language extinction.
“If only Iran’s leaders had thought through the implications of what can be...”
– NYTimes | Link by Link - As Blogs Are Censored, It’s Kittens to the Rescue (via yoshang)
olive you
of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
...
Famous Sounds →
pterodactyls:
Includes gems like the ‘Blue Monday’ drum pattern, ‘Oh, Yeah’ samples & synth bass, and the Cher-style vocorder.
Musicophilia Daily: Steve Reich – “Piano Phase”... →
“Piano Phase” is as much an experience as a piece of music, and as an experience it profoundly affected the way I heard music, how I decided what was music. It gave me permission, as it were, to follow an impulse that was already growing in me when I first heard it age 20: to admit I loved sound first and foremost; if sound took a song form, great, but if not, that ruled nothing out. What...
Rhys Chatham - Guitar Trio
postpunk:
Here’s...
“Ms. Feinberg recalled one 15-year-old boy from Long Island who told her: “Oh, we...”
– Get a Life, Holden Caulfield - NYTimes.com
just so we're clear
The true meaning of a word is the meaning of the word—all connotations and denotations, i.e the things that are suggested or pointed to in the real or imagined world. The etymological composition of a word does not determine or rewrite meaning. Use creates and determines meaning, since using a so-called “true” or etymological meaning will inevitably yield a FAIL in conversations...
Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
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Capgras Delusion →
bestofwikipedia:
The Capgras delusion is a disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that a friend, spouse or other close family member, has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
Best Of Wikipedia was an insta-follow.
BBC NEWS: Schools to rethink 'i before e' →
aatw:
“The spelling mantra ‘i before e except after c’ is no longer worth teaching, according to the government. Advice sent to teachers says there are too few words which follow the rule and recommends…
The comments have a bunch of fun spelling mnemonics: “If you ‘fri’ your Friend he’ll come to an ‘end’.”
