August 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation →
I remember being little and playing the Aladdin game on Sega Genesis and my best friend told me that if you say “Aladdin” too many times in a row, it sounds like nothing. It blew my mind, a really vivid childhood memory. Semantic satiation, y’all.
November 2010
1 post
Watchmodernism:
I really, really enjoyed this mini-documentary.
This is beautiful. Is it strange that I want to work in a flax-spinning mill now? (Is it even called a mill? Factory? Plant?)
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
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August 2010
3 posts
Anecdote of the Day: Negative Double Positive
thedailywhat:
Based on a true story:
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah,...
July 2010
14 posts
“Fred had something strange-looking sticking out of the pocket of his overalls. I...”
– Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar - I can’t put this book down, no matter how many times I read it.
Aspen: The multimedia magazine in a box →
bronwaynejohnwayne:
Recordings and flims from the magazine from 1965-1971
Richter, Moholy-Nagy, Lennon, Barthes, Beckett, mazes, stocking patterns, psychic essays, superb
http://meagan.in →
Purchased tonight—inspires me to travel lotsa places so that I can have lotsa these: meagan.in/southkorea meagan.in/bangladesh meagan.in/denmark meagan.in/vanuatu meagan.in/southamerica4evr meagan.in/thewholeworldlearninallthelanguages
It’s a work in progress, y’all.
“We have too many holidays in Korea, so we are deleting some this year.”
– Michelle Kim, my 7th grade English student ♥
June 2010
15 posts
WatchShannon
ajamars:
Waldeinsamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods.
(via cities)
Vuvuzela Radio - The sound of the vuvuzela! →
pete3:
listen to the glorious sounds of the vuvuzela without all of the annoying sounds of soccer
“Perhaps you stared into a river. There was somebody near you who loved you. They...”
– Richard Brautigan, from In Watermelon Sugar
This book never gets old to me.
Camera Obscura - “Let’s Get Out of...
May 2010
7 posts
Packing up my room tonight, having absolutely no idea where or when my things will come out of these boxes next. Strange feeling. Life is exciting
