May 2011
“I discovered a very funny, tetrapod-like movement of the fins, a kind of...”
– Hans Fricke
Watchthomas
Florida! →
“Facets of the post-natal environment including the type and complexity of...”
– Hanson et al. confirm that this and this and this make for a very troubling future in America
“If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises, they lose all heart. If...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (via jacecooke)
“There was Japanese snapper with an olive-oil ponzu sauce, and crispy leeks....”
– man i love me some Sam Sifton
a bear for the bear! →
i am looking at you, grandparents
squiiiiiiiids iiiiiiiin spaaaaaace! →
context
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...”
– E.B. White
“I thank all the Ugandans who supported us in the last elections. Continue to...”
– President Yoweri Museveni Kaguta, on the occasion of his 4th Presidential inauguration
“Republicans in the Texas Senate on Monday approved allowing concealed handgun...”
– Texas!
why does everything good have to get ruined? →
finally an internet poll worth taking →
Watchoh Antartica you get all the coolest auroral events
crookedindifference:
Aurora australis captured by NASA’s IMAGE satellite and overlaid onto NASA’s satellite-based Blue Marble image.
“You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do...”
– Zombie Marie Curie (xkcd #896)
“The new contract was that to participate in the public sphere, you must practice...”
– Mahmood Mamdani
“No person shall, by any noise, gesture, words, or other means, wantonly and...”
– Article I, Section 3.2 (Code 1963, S12-19) of Somerville’s Code or Ordinances (which I am slogging through to figure out how the city can ask us to do $5,000 worth of work on the house) is revealing a few gems along the way
