Wednesday 31 August 2011
denkmale, denmรคler
ball and chain or pigs in space
Politicians, justice officials and security experts across several German Lรคnder are meeting to explore the possibility of establishing a base of operations in Hessen that will be able to track newly released prisoners from satellites in space, using ankle bracelets (elektronische Fuรfessel) and Global Positioning technology. Many places are already doing this, with varying success, and I suppose that many of us, jailbirds or upstanding citizens, are already doing this too--submitting to tracking--voluntarily with our mobile phones, updates and announcements.
catagories: ๐ฅธ, technology and innovation
Tuesday 30 August 2011
reagent and chemical kinetics
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ก, environment
Monday 29 August 2011
ready, steady, go or goodnight, irene
geotagging or if you see something, spray something
Sunday 28 August 2011
mรคrchenhaft or funk to funky
catagories: ๐ถ, ๐จ๐ค, ๐, networking and blogging
Saturday 27 August 2011
bibliomancy
catagories: ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐, networking and blogging
Friday 26 August 2011
link round-up: sonnenblume and phases of the moon
Here's a smattering of some of the more interesting items I stumbled upon or was clued on to over the past week:
After the Feast of the Assumption (Maria Himmelfahrt) last week, earlier this week was the celebration of the coronation of the Queen of Heaven, which Wikipedia explained brilliantly, and though true to form in scholarship, sweetly, I thought. I am really enamoured with that website and its dedicated band of contributors, and not just for all the new things that one can learn every day, but also how individual entries are galloping towards completion and perfection, and how challenging certain topics and aspects can be to define, like the meticulous and continuous revisions that go into the gloss of Lolita.
And here was a very cool and inventive gallery of photographs of people posing with the Moon. I want to do this next time we're camping.
Thursday 25 August 2011
squirrel, nut, zipper or out of sight, out of mind
catagories: food and drink, lifestyle
Tuesday 23 August 2011
visitenkarte
catagories: graphic design, language, networking and blogging
kwisatz haderach or struldbrugg
Science maven Maggie Koerth-Baker, a few weeks ago, filed some very clever observations on longevity and the need for people to riddle out a formula or pattern for long, healthy lives--prefacing the dispatch with something to the effect, if a supercentenarian, whilst chain-smoking, eating chocolate, not exercizing, drinking red wine and turnip juice, jumped off a bridge from Okinawa to Andorra--would you do it too... No habit or diet is shared for those who reach extreme old age, though science is trying to fit it to a certain paradigm, but neither is it purely locked up in genetic predisposition.
Monday 22 August 2011
boxcar
catagories: graphic design
Sunday 21 August 2011
legendary creatures or there be dragons here
Friday 19 August 2011
rhein-main-donau
The Coat of Arms of Mecklenburg
features an Aurochs
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manifest destiny
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy
Wednesday 17 August 2011
aurora, not a palindrome
debenture or sweet lorraine
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ช๐บ, ๐ซ๐ท, ๐, economic policy
Tuesday 16 August 2011
you'll get no potato juice or coffee perpetuum
Monday 15 August 2011
nom de guerre or incite-a-riot
catagories: ๐ฅธ, America, networking and blogging, revolution, transportation
for the rain it raineth every day
catagories: ๐ช️, environment
Saturday 13 August 2011
mimicry
catagories: ๐️, graphic design, technology and innovation
Friday 12 August 2011
presque vu or deppenapostroph
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐ซ๐ท, language, networking and blogging
Thursday 11 August 2011
minced oath or london bridge
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐บ๐ธ, economic policy, labour, revolution