October 2009
3 posts
Today, my sister turned 17. At midnight, the first...
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September 2009
8 posts
kurt cobain's top 50 albums list
fuckyeahrocknroll:
boringboringboring:
50. Raping a Slave - Swans
49. Mazzy Star - Mazzy Star
48. Over the Edge - Wipers
47. Youth of America - Wipers
46. Is This Real? - Wipers
45. The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
44. Beach Party - Marine Girls
43. Takes a Nation of Millions - Public Enemy
42. Flowers of Romance - Pil
41. The Record - Fear
40. Damaged - Black Flag...
Why Quicksilver is still the greatest Mac app of... →
August 2009
32 posts
“The black truffle found in Périgord and Provence, and now Chuckey, Tennessee,...”
– GQ: Hillbilly Truffle
Thích Quảng Đức →
bestofwikipedia:
Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Ngô Đình Diệm administration. Police who tried to reach him could not break through the circle of Buddhist clergy. One of the policemen threw...
Peel - Stay in the loop →
“The medina in Fez may well be the largest urbanized area in the world impassable...”
– Morocco’s Extraordinary Donkeys
List of inventors killed by their own inventions →
“Breaking news and a shock to the researchers themselves, as it turns out....”
– The Mediocre Multitasker - NYTimes.com
Whale Fall →
bestofwikipedia:
Whale fall is the term used for a whale carcass that has fallen to the ocean floor. Whale falls were first observed in the 1980s, with the advent of deep-sea robotic exploration. When a whale dies in shallow water, its carcass is typically devoured by scavengers over a relatively short period of time—within several months. However, in deeper water (depths of 2,000 m/6,600 ft or...
“In physics, every equation is a sentence. Mathematics is just a language: a...”
– The Physics Game: Why I created Gravity and Levity « Gravity and Levity
“I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing.”
– Jack Kerouac, journal entry 1949
July 2009
1 post
