According to the old Icelandic calendar’s reckoning, the first Thursday after 18 April marks the first day of the month of Harpa, Sumardagurinn fyrsti, a public holiday—the beginning of the Nรกttleysi (nightless) time. Meteorological projections for this season happen to align with folk beliefs that project that summer will be a mild one should there not be a freeze on the night before.
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Having purchased the bright orange cheese—owing to the natural seasoning and colourant annatto, derived from the seeds of the achiote tree ... -
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Via Waxy , we found this project from by Josh Sucher to create a cinematic lexicon of infrequent words from a data-set of prolix, dialo... -
Via Kottke , we really enjoyed browsing the Internet Archive’s expansive exhibit of over five thousand historical images of the NASA Ames ... -
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We really enjoyed this essay from Aeon Magazine contributor Cameron Allen McKean that looks below the fold of the memes and tropes to exa... -
In deference to the silver anniversary of the Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg and Peter Benchly collaboration—which agreedly holds up...