Wednesday 8 July 2015
significant digits or wholly unscientific post-script
catagories: ๐, ๐, ๐ญ, ๐งฎ, networking and blogging
Tuesday 7 July 2015
5x5
gom jabbar: The Guardian features a tribute to the Aquarian coming of Age science fiction masterpiece Dune, fifty years on and examines its legacy, via Super Punch
our castle and our keep: exquisite off-the-grid motor home converts to an enchanted castle at rest, via the enchanting Nag on the Lake
all work and no play: free to download 1998 board game based on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
o double-good: a look into the recent incorporation of milk as a staple food, via Neatorama
mathmagic land: dividing one by nine-hundred-ninety-nine quattuodecillion—nearly infinity—spits out the Fibonacci sequence
catagories: ⚕️, ๐, ๐ฌ, ๐️, ๐, ๐งฎ, Dune, environment, food and drink, lifestyle
taxa or nomina dubia
Harking back to a time when humour was considered both an indemnifying and heuristic tool even in academic circles, stuffy, impenetrable old Michel Foucault deferred to the classification of the animal kingdom not down Linnaean lines but rather thus, alluding to the comprehensive Jorge Luis Borges having himself been influenced by the oriental method:
- A: Those that belong to the emperor
- B: Embalmed ones
- C: Those that are trained
- D: Suckling pigs
- E: Sirens
- F: Fabulous ones
- G: Stray dogs
- H: Those that are included in this classification
- I: Those that tremble as if they are mad
- J: Innumerable ones
- K: Those finely drawn with a camel hair brush
- L: Et cetera
- M: Those who’ve just broken the flower vase
- N: Those which from a distance resemble flies
Monday 6 July 2015
5x5
szene: via the Everlasting Blort, a fine gallery of the Swiss rebellious rocker subculture of the 1950s
guano islands act: the happenstance and acquisition of the US minor outlying territories
sibyl’s leaves: the Athenian Oracle, an early nineteenth century precursor to question-and-answer websites—all you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
velvet underdogs: right proper send-up for the much-maligned medium
patrimoine mondial: though Hanseatic Hamburg, Champagne and Burgundy are getting deserved attention, UNESCO’s latest inclusions go much farther