March 2010
Making a whale into a killer →
forwhenifeellikesharing:
This article on Salon.com is really fascinating.
In Australia, in the 20th century, shore whalers at Eden, on the coast of New South Wales, cooperated with a pod of orca, led by a bull male named Old Tom. The killer would herd humpbacks, passing on their migration, south toward the Antarctic. The unenlisted orca would corral the unsuspecting great whales into the cup...
February 2010
inscien asked: How are "revolution" and "evolution" related, linguistics wise? Same ending, someone added a letter, what?
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popurls →
this is my homepage in firefox. (also, holy fuck, talk about clever but unpronounceable. pop-yoo-arr-ellz? pop-earls? pop-you-lerrz? po-pearls?)
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The Mathematics of Cryptology →
fuckyeahmath:
I thought this was pretty interesting. Discovered when answering this question.
How’d this get radarred? That said, I love that this got radarred.
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OKAY
zombienumbersix:
isopod:
zombienumbersix:
CUE: An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
QUEUE: A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end
DISCREET: marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
DISCRETE:...
“On February 7, 2007, Plaintiff Stephanie Lenz (“Lenz”) videotaped her young...”
– Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. (via yoshang)
lagnolalia
wordjournal:
noun • the formal name for dirty talk; the practice of using graphic word imagery to heighten sexual pleasure before and during sexual intercourse, commonly a part of foreplay
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News Breaking: Rules Grammar Change →
Holy shit! (via monkeytypist)
wotd: "fair fucks"
An Irish phrase meaning ‘well done’.
Anto: I passed me driving test. Jacinta: Fair fucks to ya!
[via ud by way of hcfn & bingo]
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Romance With Disabled Girls: How (And Maybe Why)... →
kbkarma:
Ladies and gentlemen: a touching story from 4chan. And I mean that completely unironically.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
Sabrepulse (64)
Jens Lekman (32)
Amon Düül II (15)
Captain Beefheart (12)
Patti Smith (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Glenn, the library isn’t free. It’s paid for with tax money. Free public...”
– Jon Stewart in response to Glenn Beck saying he “educated himself by going to the library.” (via soupsoup) (via infoneer-pulse)
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bmichael asked: Please help me. I took Logic I as a sophomore in college, which was about a million years ago. I was trying to explain this comic (http://xkcd.com/704/) to someone who claims to be well-versed in logic. She didn't understand how something could be p and not-p. I tried to explain it, but I only remember that deriving a contradiction was something I often did to solve a proof. I don't...
gaaaaaaaah pastoralism
thanks!
props for halcyon though.
tip of my fucking tongue
What’s the doctrine/motif about returning to nature and simpler times and the shepherding livestock in the countryside and escaping the complexities of modern society called? The word, I think, derives from a type of verse the ancients did about those very same topics. Not bucolic or idyllic—thanks brain but those are not the words! OMG WHAT IS IT?
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“In 2007, a YouTube video of two sea otters holding paws drew 1.5 million viewers...”
– Sea otter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“The name “Arkansas” derives from the same root as the name for the...”
– Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia — I finally got the memo this week that Arkansas is related to Kansas.
nostrich asked: I have a question, since you missed out on all the language-y stuff. Britain also has quite a few dialects and variations, but we are rarely given the courtesy of specificity when our pronunciation is discussed! (Have you ever asked a Northerner, well, anything? He has no idea what you're saying, because the language he's speaking is closer to Greek than English.) My question is this: is...
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wine-drunk
sup guys
