January 2012
2 posts
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo →
Jan 29th
Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas →
Jan 17th
December 2011
1 post
The day I saw van Gogh's genius in a new light →
Dec 14th
November 2011
3 posts
Map of American dialects →
Nov 23rd
Images of America in crisis in the 1970s →
Nov 17th
Unpacking my library →
Six writers and their book-collecting habits.
Nov 13th
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.
Oct 27th
Past examination papers for fellowships at All... →
Oct 21st
Treasures of the Bodleain Library →
Oct 7th
September 2011
1 post
6 tags
Sep 1st
203 notes
August 2011
5 posts
“No; the universe in which we actually dwell is a quite strange place and any...”
– Mark Wilson
Aug 29th
A camera made almost entirely out of Lego →
whaaaaaaat
Aug 25th
Aug 25th
'Jaws' in the style of Charles Shulz's 'Peanuts' →
Aug 12th
The Man Who Set Film Free →
Scorsese on Antonioni
Aug 8th
July 2011
2 posts
Amy Winehouse's Intelligent Soul →
Jul 28th
The Good Short Life →
Jul 12th
June 2011
8 posts
Jun 30th
Jun 25th
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.
Jun 12th
Jun 12th
Jun 12th
“You don’t really watch a Malick film. You experience it like the weather.”
– Kartina Richardson, mirrorfilm.org
Jun 6th
In defense of boring movies →
Jun 6th
Jun 1st
May 2011
10 posts
Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner →
May 28th
May 24th
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and...”
– Paul Valery
May 19th
Bawdy Neuroanatomy →
or, how the brain got its buttocks. via Mindhacks
May 19th
May 15th
May 14th
May 12th
There's no DNA in Disease →
Neuroskeptic on the silly things people say about DNA and mental illness.
May 11th
“But I had learned in my college days that one cannot imagine anything so strange...”
– Descartes, Discourse on Method pt. II
May 11th
A close reading of Richard Scarry's "What do... →
May 5th
April 2011
5 posts
Apr 12th
Apr 12th
Ask Reddit: I like big butts and I cannot lie, but... →
Apr 5th
Six Architects →
Posters by Andrea Gallo
Apr 4th
Myths Retold: Beowulf →
Apr 3rd
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.
Mar 30th
David Lynch's hair compared to modernist painting →
Mar 26th
The day the movies died →
Mar 14th
English words with uncommon properties →
Mar 11th
85 notes
Errol Morris: The Ashtray →
Errol Morris on meaning and incommensurability.
Mar 10th
February 2011
9 posts
WatchWatch
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Feb 28th
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
Feb 26th
Plutocracy Now: Income Inequality in America →
“11 charts about everything that is wrong with America”
Feb 24th
Scientists at UA date the Voynich Manuscript →
Feb 12th
Feb 12th
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