March 2009
40 posts
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Hanne Hukkelberg — Salt of the Earth
Just...
How long did it take you to discover how to ask...
Me? Flippin’ ages. Only just twigged.
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noraleah:
Would you take your husband’s last name? (Here’s my take.)
Reminds me of this exchange from the episode of The West Wing that we watched last night:
Josh: Why are you trying to… fix me up… with Joey Lucas?
Donna: [quickly] I think you’d make a nice couple.
Josh: Fine.
Donna: If you got married you’d be Joshua and Josephine Lucas-Lyman. You...
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nruth:
Black is the Colour of My True Love’s...
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Chris Bathgate — Serpentine
One brash...
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Pet Shop Boys — Building A Wall
from their...
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somethingofadreamer:
whatson &...
To A Medical Student
This is my body,
The shell of my being,
Which is given to you.
In final offering
To the world
I share the elements of life.
From these old bones,
These ligaments,
My sinews and my nerves
May that life force
That ran in me
Shine forth once more
And pass to you
The knowledge and the power
That help sustain
The miracle of life.
— An anonymous...
Space Eulogies
Bereft of his ability to fly and with nowhere to go, a courageous bat climbed aboard our Discovery with stars in his weak little eyes. The launch commenced, and Spacebat trembled as his frail mammalian body was gently pushed skyward. For the last time, he felt the primal joy of flight; for the first, the indescribable feeling of ascending toward his dream—a place far away from piercing screeches...
What does the number on a fruit sticker mean? →
fruitsticker.com is a revelation, decoding the numbers on fruit stickers.
Today I ate two #4101 (Apples, Braeburn) and a #4012 (Oranges, Navel).
Now, where can I get some #4054 with cream?
"Grab the book closest to you. Go to page 56. Find...
“In the literature, comprehensive mathematical descriptions of the kinetic behaviour of enzyme located in CSTR UF units are reported (Wichmann et al., 1981; Hagerdal et al., 1980).”
— Biocatalytic membrane reactors by Diroli & Giorno
(meme via nruth and about a million others.)
Beware the Ides of March
Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry "Caesar!" Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March.
Caesar: What man is that?
Brutus: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Best wishes, Melvyn Bragg - The Library of... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-8) →
The Corrs (39)
Dido (36)
Daniel Barenboim (36)
The Bird and the Bee (33)
Pet Shop Boys (18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I secretly quite like Mondays
I guess expecting them to be boring and blue I put a lot more effort into them than other weekdays and hence reap the rewards.
WatchDan Barber’s surprising foie gras parable
At the Taste3 conference in July 2008, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind of food production Barber believes in.
The Cult of Done Manifesto →
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-1) →
Dido (48)
Seth Lakeman (18)
Pet Shop Boys (17)
Miles Davis (16)
Robert Plant (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a...”
– T.S. Eliot (via 12minds)
“Tea: Because not every day should be a hangover”
– via The Good Ship Narcissus
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Abbie Gardner & Anthony da Costa - Nothing...