January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
2 posts
Great museumy resources →
museumsandstuff:
A quick Sunday evening post for those who like to spend their online time learning about the most diverse things.
Open Culture - a quick one stop shop for a wealth of online resources for language learning, interesting podcasts, free ebooks and classic films, etc.
Khan Academy - mostly…
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
9 posts
Paddy Johnson: Occupy Museums! Speaking out in... →
OFFS. Really?
paddyjohnson:
The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation…
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September 2011
3 posts
Word of the day
Geberated. I don’t know what it means, but my spell check says it’s ok. Posted via email from reevesy’s preposterous | Comment »
How to skin an elephant
“If someone comes at you and says, ‘You skin an elephant one leg at a time’ — they’ve never skinned an elephant,” he tells us. “You do whatever’s exposed, then you bring in a tractor and a loader and move it and you do something else.” How did an elephant end up in his front yard? Dennis shrugs. “People come to you sometimes when...
August 2011
9 posts
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All That Is Interesting: The Town Where Everyone... →
All that is wrong - many of the images below are from WW2 - the main image is by Victor Bulla, of children in Leningrad, 1937…
all-thats-interesting:
The age old adage home is where the heart is finds its true meaning in Miyakejima, a small island located in southeast Japan. Despite the high level of volcanic activity that causes poisonous gas to leak from the earth that forced the...
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July 2011
5 posts
Easiest city in world to be killed in a road...
Pork dumplings and kungfu oolong tea in the Old Shanghai tea house, tripping out to the kitchy Bund sightseeing tunnel, a 2pm dance part on the roof of an observatory, Sichuanese tofu. Socks worn through.
June 2011
11 posts
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people...
– Also: DFTBA
- Ryan Adams (via rantsravescliches)
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese....
– Stephen Fry http://youtu.be/lGR4liJ2vCc
HOUSE OF BLUES
Badassery
golfwang:
30 Seconds Before The Foot Broke. 30 Seconds After The Foot Broke Tape. Still Have A Fucking Show To Do. The Next Two Hours Will Be Like This Made It Fucking Rain. Bitch Suck Dick Was EPIC They Loved It.
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so...
– - Douglas Adams (via justsaysomethingperfect)
May 2011
15 posts
Boy plays with an otter →
The otter, of course, sees only prey
MapCrunch →
The funnest
vinciboy:
geographystuff:
Random Google Street View - teleport around the world
Awesome tool! :)
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The Maori did not come from the Pacific Islands, or China, or Africa. Their...
– I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to me to be a New Zealander
ON BEING PAKEHA: SOME THOUGHTS OF A NEW ZEALANDER » Brian Easton