January 2012
2 posts
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo →
Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas →
December 2011
1 post
The day I saw van Gogh's genius in a new light →
November 2011
3 posts
Map of American dialects →
Images of America in crisis in the 1970s →
Unpacking my library →
Six writers and their book-collecting habits.
October 2011
3 posts
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal... →
is the oldest peer-reviewed journal in the world. They have made the complete archives available. For free.
Past examination papers for fellowships at All... →
Treasures of the Bodleain Library →
September 2011
1 post
6 tags
August 2011
5 posts
No; the universe in which we actually dwell is a quite strange place and any...
– Mark Wilson
A camera made almost entirely out of Lego →
whaaaaaaat
'Jaws' in the style of Charles Shulz's 'Peanuts' →
The Man Who Set Film Free →
Scorsese on Antonioni
July 2011
2 posts
Amy Winehouse's Intelligent Soul →
The Good Short Life →
June 2011
8 posts
Travel update
Due to volcanic activity I was stranded in Lima for a day. It wasn’t great. I caught a red eye flight to Buenos Aires and a car up to Rosario. Arrived around 8am, caught some sleep, and then met up with Graham. So far Rosario seems like a really cool city.
You don’t really watch a Malick film. You experience it like the weather.
– Kartina Richardson, mirrorfilm.org
In defense of boring movies →
May 2011
10 posts
Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner →
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and...
– Paul Valery
Bawdy Neuroanatomy →
or, how the brain got its buttocks.
via Mindhacks
There's no DNA in Disease →
Neuroskeptic on the silly things people say about DNA and mental illness.
But I had learned in my college days that one cannot imagine anything so strange...
– Descartes, Discourse on Method pt. II
A close reading of Richard Scarry's "What do... →
April 2011
5 posts
Ask Reddit: I like big butts and I cannot lie, but... →
Six Architects →
Posters by Andrea Gallo
Myths Retold: Beowulf →
March 2011
5 posts
The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden's... →
There are few works of greater scope or structural genius than the series of fiction pieces by Horatio Bucklesby Ogden, collectively known as The Wire; yet for the most part, this Victorian masterpiece has been forgotten and ignored by scholars and popular culture alike.
David Lynch's hair compared to modernist painting →
The day the movies died →
English words with uncommon properties →
Errol Morris: The Ashtray →
Errol Morris on meaning and incommensurability.
February 2011
9 posts
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
List of lists of lists →
readmorewikipedia:
excerpt:
Lists of amphibians by region
Lists of anarchism topics
Lists of ancient doctors
List of ancient king lists
Lists of animals
Lists of Argentine films
Lists of armoured fighting vehicles
Plutocracy Now: Income Inequality in America →
“11 charts about everything that is wrong with America”
Scientists at UA date the Voynich Manuscript →