March 2010
49 posts
I was puzzled. “You mean you haven’t turned Clippy off?” Long...
– Language Log: Doing Meta: from meta-language to meta-clippy
Here’s a maddeningly open-textured memory — time and place uncertain,...
– Language Log » Quote query
Anything you can do, I can do meta
– Language Log » Quote query
This article covers the uncertainty in attribution of this quote. It gives a cut-off point of 1946: “The limiting time would be 1946, the date of Irving Berlin’s musical Annie Get Your Gun, in which “Anything you can do, I can do better” is...
What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to...
– [AAANZ 2005]: Nicolas Bourriaud - Keynote
[…] The immediate crushing depression that always attends returning to...
– sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy: Culture & Science
The change happened shortly after MX went to a hospital to have his blocked...
– The Brain: Look Deep Into the Mind’s Eye | Senses | DISCOVER Magazine
Lu Ban was a famous carpenter in the Chun Qiu period. One day he went up the...
– Lu Ban and The Invention of the Saw - Anecdotes - Chinese History - China culture
Lu Ban is well notable for his achievements after his subject to the State of...
– Lu Ban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dig a bit into the valuation of art and you are likely to find many of the same...
– The Smart Set: On Value - March 25, 2010
I coveted a Louis Vuitton handbag (Artsy GM — $1,630.000, as advertised on the...
– The Smart Set: On Value - March 25, 2010
How to make sugar →
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A Collosal mound of bloated corpses →
camel →
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Ghana’s Western neighbor Ivory Coast is reportedly laying claims to...
– Global Voices Online » Ghana: Do Ghana’s oil fields belong to Ivory Coast?
A Third Lesson in Epistemology
from Fat Tony: The... →
I suppose it’s only a matter of time before a community forms somewhere of...
– Language Log » How Language Log helped jump-start a subculture
In the Alice books, there is the feeling that Wonderland is Alice’s world...
– k-punk: Infantilizing children
The Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland is a collection of 150-year-old...
– Frog Museum located in Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland | Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations
Five Colour Lake →
Old stumpy →
Frozen Long Lake →
Sun on a snowy day, ZhouCha Valley →
Two tibetan houses and corrals →
Some people might laugh at the idea of a pre-boiled egg, but how many people...
– BBC News - The rise of lazy foods