March 2011
“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive...”
Two varieties of anarchist sentiment →
There are many ways to categorize anarchist groups, and many systems of categorization are in conflict. This will not be covered in this blog post, because not only am I not an expert in the history…
Two varieties of anarchist sentiment →
There are many ways to categorize anarchist groups, and many systems of categorization are in conflict. This will not be covered in this blog post, because not only am I not an expert in the history of internal ideological schisms within anarchist philosophy, but I am more or less uninterested in the politics of anti-politics. Instead, I am categorizing anarchist sentiment more grossly, into...
“A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.”
– Harry S. Truman
“the effects of branding carrots with cartoon characters were weaker than the...”
– The influence of marketing on kids’ food preferences (via outofcontextscience)
Distinguishing blue from green in language →
bestofwikipedia:
The English language makes a distinction between blue and green, but some languages do not. Of these, quite a number, mostly in Africa, do not distinguish blue from black either, while there are a handful of languages that do not distinguish blue from black but have a separate term for green. Also, some languages treat light (often greenish) blue and dark blue as separate...
“A lot of chatter goes on inside each one of us and not all of it happens between...”
– ‘Knowing it in your gut’: Cross-talk between human gut bacteria and brain (via fuckyeahconsciousness)
“The only things anyone really likes are dopamine and seratonin”
– Erika Panic
clientsfromhell:
Me: “What languages is it your server set up with? I can make it in PHP or ASP.”
Client: “Our servers speak English and Spanish. So make it in that.”
U.S. fires 110 tomahawk missiles, each costs...
linguisticagnosia:
But it makes a much, much better noise.
http://gralienreport.com/fortean-phenomena/fortean-... →
There is also the entire affair involving Rudolph Hess and his mad night-flight to Scotland (he had intended to land in England). Some scholars have claimed that Hess, whose interest in astrology and the occult was said to be prolific, had actually been manipulated through the careful workings of MI5 director Maxwell Knight and his assistant, Ian Fleming of later James Bond fame, who had...
“Ravens just aren’t that smart. I got one to agree to a short term high...”
