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Although the German origin “ohne Korrektur”—without correction—is as probably as much of a folk etymology as “Old Kinderhook,” Martin van B... -
Via Kottke’s Quick Links we are treated to a scientific assessment and ranking on the accuracy of the Ringed Planet emoji , assuming that t... -
It was my mother who first turned me towards Twitter for breaking news and developments during the media blackouts in Egypt during this cr... -
Though the phrase time immemorial may sound beyond the reach of history or record, it is a phrase coined (temps immémorial) to satisfy the l... -
Via Things Magazine , we are quite enjoying this streaming channel (see also here and here ) of video artefacts and interstitials whose con... -
Happening to revisit an article that celebrated the ban of the Confederate States flag as a symbol of hate by lampooning all of America’s ... -
In the same distracting, side-lining class of other properties in the pantheon of therapeutic diversion, we’re introduced to gallery of pa... -
télévision œil de demain : a prescient 1947 short about the future ubiquity of screens zeus mode : alternative phone casings featuring acc... -
A six hundred year old copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle ( DE / EN ), Liber Chronicarum , an illuminated world history and one of the earli... -
Via Boing Boing , we’re treated to a suite of Tarot cards generated with a procedural, algorithmic model that is similar to the technique u...
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