August 2009
58 posts
“By all means, get married. For either you will end up happy, or you will become...”
– Socrates
“Even if you offered me a place in the great edifice of the system, I would...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
Would-be collective nouns →
a conspiracy of theorists
a drama of fashionistas
an array of geeks
a sovereign of chavs
a melancholy of goths
an argument of lawyers
a tantrum of 2 year olds
a fondling of vicars
a redundanacy of civil servants
a knot of string theorists
a fraud of bankers
Via Kottke.
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised...”
– banksy manifesto (quoted from phillips) (via realrealsoft) (via iaminlikewithmybike) (via hardgraft)
“Your brother brought his baby over this morning. He told me it could stand. It...”
– Justin’s dad (via shitmydadsays)
Dakota Fanning may step into Dorothy's shoes for... →
“Warner Bros promise darker version of the musical, in which the lead character is a feisty heroine, similar to Alien’s Ripley” — is it just me that remembers Return to Oz, dodgy as it was, being pretty dark? Prediction: terrible idea.
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Medals of Dishonour
British Museum, London WC1B, until 27 September
A collection of medals probably doesn’t sound very exciting or interesting (to anyone but a exonumist, anyway), and to be honest, I was intrigued more by the clever corruption of the letter ‘i’ in the posters advertising the exhibition, but I found it so fascinating I ended up buying the excellent catalogue.
From exquisitely...
“I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the...”
– Steve Jobs (via LuckyRed)
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This (long) weekend, I...
ADVANCE WARNING: this is a BIG one.
Sheltered from a sudden downpour in Opera Opera, and accidentally spent rather a lot of money on new pair of frames.
Had an early lunch in the British Museum’s court restaurant: Pappadelle with grilled sea bass, baby pok choi and lemongrass butter followed by a variation of Italian deserts (passion fruit panna cotta, tiramisu, ice cream profiterole). It...
“Armed men seen mixing with protesters outside recent events held by President...”
– Washington Post. That you can attend a presidential speech, flaunting a loaded weapon and opposing the president, is just spectacularly mental.
1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's... →
I remember seeing this post ages ago, and I have to agree with loopdream:
An old post but one worth revisiting….
Giant 'meat-eating' plant found →
A giant pitcher plant big enough to drown a rat has been found in the Philippines. Real life is consistently weirder than fiction.
“Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But...”
– Neil Postman proposes that it was Huxley, not Orwell, who saw our doomed future. Read an extract.
“Who am I? How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Memories fading, soldiers slaying / Looks like geezers raving”
– Mike Skinner
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This weekend, I...
Had Friday off, and spent most of it doing very little, until the evening….
Went for a delicious pizza at The Lauriston.
Checked out for the first time the newly opened Bottle Apostle — seriously impressed, more later.
Followed up with a little digestif, in the form of a tot of Plantation 8yo Rum: smooth, light, warm, honeyed aftertaste. Beautiful.
Went for a swim at London Fields...
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (via thechosenwords) (via quotedropper)
Julian Brooker apology | The Sun →
“Julian’s mother did not say, during or after the inquest, her son often got on all fours creeping around their house pretending to be Gollum.” — I mean, where the hell do you start with the bizarreness of this? (via Ben Goldacre)
What anaisescobar said:
Steppin’ Out by Joe...
Player back after coma recovery →
Just over a year ago, Oxford United player Robert Hughes was attacked in Crete, fell into a coma, and woke up with total amnesia. Having to relearn everything — eating, moving, the lot — and having no idea that ever played for Oxford United, he played in a friendly last night for Welling United against Millwall and has been offered a contract.
The only thing he can remember is his...
Watchdanmeth:
Deceptive Deceptions A new video I made for College Humor, spoofing the wide array of conspiracy videos on the web. I wanted to make the most paranoid conspiracy theory with the most absurd logic. Narrated brilliantly by my animator pal Elliot Cowan.
“You can’t keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.”
– Homer Simpson (via vinh)
Rupert Murdoch plans charge for all news websites... →
cimex:
Murdoch seems to think that large quantities of people will pay to use the Times and the Sun/NotW websites … presumably by massively upping their offerings given that the BBC and Guardian pretty much own the quality online news space in the UK. I’d pay for either of them, but Murdoch’s lot can whistle for it.
Information Is Beautiful →
This may be my new favourite website ever. I’ll be gratuitously posting various graphics from it throughout the day. (via Charlie Brooker)
