January 2009
41 posts
“What we cannot speak of, we must pass over in silence.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is an old Zen saying that you can try to explain to someone how an orange tastes, but how can you describe it, really? Until you’ve tasted an orange, you have no way of truly knowing. And once you’ve tasted one, what is there to say?
Taming Perfectionism →
givemesomethingtoread:
Real artists ship.
rands: Drip coffee tastes like it sounds. →
NYT: Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You →
secretsquirrel: The phrase "there's more than one... →
nevenmrgan: Ok, finally doing one of these: you... →
“Contrary to Einstein’s opinion, World War 4 will be fought with mostly...”
– @secretsquirrel
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“Scientists have previously teleported unmolested qubits between photons of...”
– Science is catching up to the fiction.
Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart
“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception.”
– Groucho Marx
THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE FROM HELL
Composed by Karl M. Petruso
ACROSS DOWN 1 The _______ 1 Opposite of “forty” 5 Tributary of the Bug (var.) 2 Common Burkina Faso insect 10 See 34 Down 3 Part 3 of quote 14 See 10 Across 4 Atlantis to Xanadu dir. 15 Opposite of “average”...
Cheney Injures Back While Moving →
A Step Toward an Invisibility Cloak →
An Eye for an Eye for an Arm and a Leg →
An arm and a leg are not worth two eyes, they are worth less.
“After his graduation from the conservatoire at Liège, Ysaÿe was the principal...”
– Wikipedia entry on Eugène Ysaÿe. I always knew there was beer in the blood of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Daring Fireball: The Way the Camera Follows Us in... →
Fabulous anecdote from @gruber
How the city hurts your brain →
givemesomethingtoread:
Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it’s long been recognized that city...
BLDGBLOG: Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake... →