January 2009
5 posts
Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan →
robot-heart:
guy:
In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series of stones – some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon – 40-feet beneath the surface waters of Lake Michigan.
Not only is the story interesting the sonar images are amazing.
You Are Being Lied To About Pirates →
dalasverdugo:
kateoplis:
“In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country’s food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone,...
Animal Crossing Movie →
December 2008
12 posts
Words That Don't Exist in the English Language
robot-heart:
hahanotfunny:tesslynch:everithing:pica:
Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Sgriob: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think...
http://theuniverseas.com/ →
November 2008
46 posts
If you can’t stand up for yourself and your actions then your sitting down; passively allowing time to create a motion you view without interaction.
-RayVillian
“Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional...”
– Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter
Tabby person
I think most people have a lot of bookmarks for their favorite websites. I have a lot of tabs, that I never close.
Outlandish-I only ask of God →
Solo le pido a dios →
Emotional
After a day of resistors, ohms, and existential thought my head was swimming. By chance, a pre-ordained chance? I came across this song. Solo le pido a dios. I only ask of God. I am not religious, but this song almost brought me to tears. First I heard it in Spanish and only understood a few words here and there. Then I translated it. And then I found a translated version. Sólo le pido a Dios I...
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via martinis-in-a)
My Social Site History
I am interested in social sites because I avoided them as long as I could. When I was in middle school, the internet was viewed as a game of anonymity. My friends would log into chat rooms and be whoever they wanted. The fun was in believing the other people were honest and you alone were lying, but users soon realized everyone was lying. When I was in high school, AIM became an everyday activity....
“‘Yesterday I read in a book somebody stating very well an idea I had myself, and...”
– Hyde, nytimes, What is art?, 11/16/08
~words for every artist trying to propell thought forward.
Intellectual property article →
“debunking the Emersonian view of Franklin as “America’s first self-made man” and...”
– NYTIMES,
What Is Art For?
Published: November 14, 2008
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News &... →
Pre-dated
(via minicies)
“I’m saying that the price you’ve paid is not the price of becoming...”
– Ishmael, pg75 Everyone should read this book!
DisLiking the Like system
That is precisely why I love tumblr, it has an impersonal-personal connection. Reblogging is the head nod of conversation. Silent poetic acceptance and agreeance.
shutupinternet:
I love the Tumblr platform so I think it’s important to be critical of it. I’d be hard pressed to find a feature that has more flaws than the Like system.
I realize that Liking is optional, that the ability to reblog...
“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
– Alexander the Great
That poem has some good points, and is well worded, but perhaps ends too religious for my taste.
But that quote is perfect for me… I wonder the same thing.
“When should we walk out
of the theater into the night? When should we accept...”
– In the Present and Probable Future, Mary Jo Bang