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