June 2010
93 posts
Gulf oil disaster: Pensacola Beach (click to see... →
“I do love the fail whale, though, and it amuses me to see respectable tech...”
– 10 Questions on Poets & Technology – Dave Bonta « Very Like A Whale
“John Hancock’s signature was already considerable when he signed the Declaration...”
– LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
“It used to be that I was limited by coming up with names; naming projects is...”
– -= (take 8 (phil-hagelberg)) =-
“It has been well established by ornithologists that barn swallows do not build...”
– UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
CriticalPast.com: Search over 57000 videos and 7... →
“E. however claims, with some truth I think, that uneducated people are often...”
– 24.6.40 « THE ORWELL PRIZE
“Last night an air raid warning about 1 a.m. It was a false alarm as regards...”
– 25.6.40 « THE ORWELL PRIZE
“With mingled admiration and horror, I heard a door-to-door selling expert...”
– Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Diffusecasting: The New Model for Mass Influence
“About an hour after my wife left, a woman entered my house by the front door....”
– THE SINGULAR ASPECT. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
I rather wish this really were a mystery story.
“Ever finished a job that, give or take vacations, sick time, and minor...”
– That empty feeling - Charlie’s Diary
“It’s common to think of polka as very silly and old-fashioned music for...”
– Siris: Sex and the Conventions of Youth
“According to R.H., a woman who rented an island in the Hebrides on order to...”
– 20.6.40 « THE ORWELL PRIZE
“A thought occurred to me yesterday: how is it that England, with one of the...”
– 20.6.40 « THE ORWELL PRIZE
“I’m sorry to say it gang, but probably none of us will ever make it to...”
– Dear Hollywood, you absolutely suck at making Weird Westerns
The SCP Foundation →
dailymeh:
Various agencies from around the world operate to maintain human independence from extra-terrestrial, extra-dimensional, and extra-universal threat. In the past humankind has been at the whim of these bizarre artifacts and similar phenomena, but we have now reached a point in history where we can begin to control and contain these defiances of natural law.
I just spent way too much...
Euphues Redivivus | Odd Books →
Aldous Huxley on Amanda Ros, possibly the worst writer ever.
“Ros is evidently a genius. She was described by Northrop Frye as a writer with a...”
– Varieties of Unreligious Experience: Amanda Ros: pathological diabetic
“Connections within, and walls around, are characteristic features of an emerging...”
– The Missing Folkways of Globalization
“ENF relies on frequency variations in the electricity supplied by the National...”
– Met lab claims ‘biggest breakthrough since Watergate’ • The Register
“It is impossible even yet to decide what to do in the case of German conquest of...”
– 16.6.40 « THE ORWELL PRIZE
“The French have surrendered. This could be foreseen from last night’s broadcast...”
– 17.6.40 « THE ORWELL PRIZE
“Japanese shodo, he explains, has “at least 10,000 letters. Now you find Arabic...”
– Saudi Aramco World : Shodo ‘Arabi
“For centuries, educated Japanese have been taught the traditions of calligraphy...”
– Saudi Aramco World : Shodo ‘Arabi
POWrightinthecooz comments on pick a bad photo,... →
“The image I have is of hackers encamped just outside a stone gate, carefully but...”
– Mob Software
“Today, almost every business and human pursuit is built on computing and digital...”
– Mob Software
“The real problem with modular parts is that we took a good idea—modularity—and...”
– Mob Software
“Until recently, the model of software creation and use held that programmers put...”
– Mob Software
“Between order and chaos, interesting and unexpected combinations come about and...”
– Mob Software
23 Things Not To Write In An E-mail : NPR →
tiffehr:
One search [for recurring keywords drawn from Lehman Brother’s e-mail trail] in particular targeted a bunch of words and phrases that anybody might use in an incriminating e-mail. They are:
…
stupid
huge mistake
big mistake
dumb
can’t believe cannot believe
serious trouble
big trouble
unsalvageable
shocked
speechless
too late
uncomfortable
not comfortable
I don’t think we...
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in... →
“So-called “seedless” watermelons are deseeded in sweatshops throughout the...”
– DR. BOLI’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MISINFORMATION. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
“Ahmadenijad is fundamentally linked to the Basij, and the Basij are a national...”
– pseudotype comments on Young Iranian Protester - Shot By Basij [WARNING GRUESOME]
Ancient Resource: Ancient Coins and Artifacts for... →
“The mistake that many supporters of the Bolsheviks made was to think that once...”
– n+1: Internet as Social Movement
“Book-length literature is the product of certain historical conditions, of a...”
– n+1: Internet as Social Movement
“Webism was born as a technophilic left-wing splinter movement in the late 1960s,...”
– n+1: Internet as Social Movement
“Over the past five years the great American public has blogged and Tweeted and...”
– n+1: Internet as Social Movement 