December 2008
110 posts
“Humor is reason gone mad.”
– Groucho Marx (via bitchville)
“We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in...”
– Tom Stoppard
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind...”
– Albert Camus (via everybodycares) (via michellardi)
(via erickd)
The First Epic Christmas By Sam Watters
‘Twas the night before Christmas, but all was not right The wind blew a little too harshly that night. We were just back from Denny’s, a late-night retreat, Our stomachs packed chock-full of hash browns and meat. Our friends were a-slumber, long since gone to bed, The moon through the window shone soft on their heads. All were anxious as children for St. Nick to appear, But the time of the...
The First Epic Christmas (cont)
One mighty leap, and he vanished from view, All we saw were his coarsers, his chariot too. Breathing softly in silence we prayed for salvation, But even God must pay heed, to the Lord of Damnation. Now off of its hinges, the door splintered from sight, At last we beheld the dark King of the Night. His armour and crown were of blood-tarnished steel, But we gazed with most horror at his terrible...
“All life is just a progression toward, and a regression from, one phrase—‘I love...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate” (via scout) (via reckon)
Space Beer Has Landed | Serious Eats →
robot-heart:
The 100 percent barley beer, called “Space Barley,” was grown in a Russian laboratory on an International Space Station.
astronauts party like rockstars
This is the cutest book you will EVER read! →
deadshot:
brightredlemons:lickystickypicky:
PLEASE take a look
“We play death metal. We write about vikings so, therefore, some refer us to...”
– Johan Hagg, Amon Amarth vocalist
And/or Cackow
And with that, I’m done with finals
Boosh!
“Rigidity yielding a little, like justice swayed by mercy, is the whole beauty of...”
– G. K. Chesterton
Cantares by Manuel Machado
Vino, sentimiento, guitarra y poesíahacen los cantares de la patria mía.Quien dice cantares dice Andalucía.A la sombra fresca de la vieja parra,un mozo moreno rasguea la guitarra…Cantares…Algo que acaricia y algo que desgarra.La prima que canta y el bordón que llora…Y el tiempo callado se va hora tras hora.Cantares…Son dejos fatales de la raza mora.No importa la vida, que...
Scientists extract images directly from brain →
robot-heart:
johnalene:moderation:adeandabet:adamadam:evanwondrasek:
Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person ’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. Further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while...