January 2010
Quand’ero ragazzo non c’era che una sola permanente ambizione, fra i nostri compagni del paese, sulla sponda ovest del Mississippi: diventare marinai su un battello a vapore. Ne avevamo anche altre, di ambizioni, ma erano ambizioni passeggere. Quando un circo arrivava e ripartiva, ci lasciava tutti con l’ardente desiderio di diventare clown; il primo spettacolo di cantanti negri...
The Mae Nang shrine is draped with khanom garlands, submerged in incense smoke. Into the canal that runs beside it pilgrims liberate the eels and fish which they buy as karma-improving offerings from vendors nearby. It is lovely to watch them kneel by the water’s edge and pop open the plastic bags containing the animals, then watch them swim away—the latter startled, probably, and confused by...
“Pica is a medical disorder characterized by an appetite for things other than...”
– Quigley’s Cabinet (via ajourneyroundmyskull)
The Magnificent Seventh’s Brass Band - When the...
jessb:
Carrot tracks in Aerogel, Stardust Project.
A silicon-based solid with a porous, sponge-like structure in which 99.8 percent of the volume is empty space. 1,000 times less dense than glass, which is another silicon-based solid. When a particle from (a comet) hits the aerogel, it buries itself in the material, creating a carrot-shaped track up to 200 times its own length. This slows it...
“These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the...”
– Official Google Blog: A new approach to China (via antologia)
Jules Verne raconte que, quand on voit le rayon vert, on est capable de lire
dans ses propres sentiments et dans les sentiments des autres.
Florida: fa così freddo che le iguane cadono... →
addictions:
il titolo del giorno
1 tag
English, dulphing, a nonce-word coined by Samuel Butler in Hudibras (1678) to describe the action of a dolphin’s leap, ‘gracefully dulphing’, to rhyme with ‘engulphing’.
English, endorphin, earlier endolphine, a fanciful classical formulation proposed in Punch by T. E. Hulme in 1909 to suggest the free play of the sea-creature in the water, as if by analogy to the...
