August 2010
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Althsuler (via jadorelavie) (via nathanielstuart) (via booklover)
July 2010
Paralyzed Man Sets and Meets Goal to Stand at... →
“There are books full of great writing that don’t have very good stories. Read...”
– — Stephen King (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover)
“Searching an infinite and ever-expanding universe for other civilisations is not...”
– Silent witness | COSMOS magazine
“More importantly, the idea that the existence of photographs of a young woman...”
– Kinky BDSM Pix of Angelina Jolie? We’d Love to See Them, if She Wants Us to. | CarnalNation
Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs... →
Canvas Cycle: True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5 →
HOLY CRAP BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK.
Does Language Influence Culture?
Take “Humpty Dumpty sat on a…” Even this snippet of a nursery rhyme reveals how much languages can differ from one another. In English, we have to mark the verb for tense; in this case, we say “sat” rather than “sit.” In Indonesian you need not (in fact, you can’t) change the verb to mark tense.
In Russian, you would have to mark tense and also...
Lady Gaga Kidnaps Commissioner Gordon →
I’ll stop posting Onion articles now, I promise.
“Since she and the wine are in the Okanagan, she buys free range, non-medicated,...”
– Contented cows agree: Beef goes better with red wine
I like meat, but I like my meat more when I know the animals lived good lives prior to being slaughtered. I don’t think life gets better than spending the last four months of your moo-cow life drunk on wine. ;)
Time to come clean...
catalogliving:
Gary has no idea what exactly Elaine does in the shower every day, but he certainly knows better than to touch her wooden shower spoon or shower branch.
Only-Child Myths Persist As More Parents Choose... →
Experience: I was with my friend when she took her... →
One woman explains her friend’s experience with doctor-assisted suicide. I can’t help but feel that this is the way dying should be.
13-year-old girl baseball pitcher in a league of... →
'Sliders Ended Two Seasons Too Early, If You Ask... →
Breast ironing: A short film gives a glimpse of... →
““How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”
“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An...”
– The Egg
India Develops World’s Cheapest Tablet That’ll... →
