January 2010
17 posts
Art that, quite literally, sells itself.
Caleb Larson, A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009)
And most of it would be useless nonsense. →
(Infographic: ‘If you printed Twitter’)
Library of Strange Folktales, No. 006
‘Oh, what is this I cannot see,
With icy hand take hold on me?’
‘Oh, I am death and none can excell;
I open the door of heaven and hell.’
‘Now, Death oh, Death how can it be
That I must come and go with thee?
For Death, oh Death how can it be,
For I’m unprepared for eternity!’
‘Yes, I’ve come for to get your soul,
Leave your body and leave it...
“Glasgow’s a bit like Nashville, Tennessee: it doesn’t care much for...”
– Billy Connolly [via]
Party! →
Cocaine found in NASA shuttle hangar.
'Freedom of thought is all we foment' →
Even as he prepares to investigate the time the alleged Detroit bomber spent at UCL, Malcolm Grant argues that intellectual freedom on campus cannot be compromised.
“Other UK newspaper comment accuses us at UCL of being “complicit” in the radicalisation of Muslim students; and, again, of “failing grotesquely” to prevent extremists from giving lectures on campus. Mr Abdulmutallab’s...
Good to know.
I’m certainly not one of those people who likes to complain that networks like Facebook are ‘omg invading my privacy and stuff,’ since I understand that all such media (Google mail, Myspace, etc.) are not things one needs, has to, or even always ought to have. Moreover, they are run by private companies with narrow, specific priorities of interests (first profit, second ???,...
“If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended,
That you have...”
– ‘The Two Gentlement of Lebowski’ [http://www.runleiarun.com/lebowski/]
Groaner of the day
Food/drink kiosk in Paddington Station: Souper Douper
