A cat in Iowa has tested positive for the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, state officials confirmed this morning, marking the first time a cat has been diagnosed with this strain of influenza. The cat, which has recovered, is believed to have caught the virus from someone in the household who was sick with H1N1. There are no indications that the cat passed the virus on to any other animals or people.
–H1N1 Flu Confirmed in Iowa Cat
This is scary.
Indie artist, Andrea Bonelli, is the designer behind Plum & Sage and her hand-forged jewelry have us completely captivated. The Stardust Necklace ($50 USD) is one of our favorites from her…
An LA Times list complete with cute icons to tell you if a book (for example) has an author as a character, plays with form, or ‘comments on its own bookishness,’ among other delightful postmodern tropes. As for the list itself, Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn would both make for excellent summer reading. (via)
Love the way this is presented.
Tumblr this morning, part three.
“I don’t WANNA post anything yet!”
(Photo of Willy the polar bear rolling around in five thousand pounds of ice cubes delivered to his enclosure at the North Carolina Zoo by Valerie Abbott / Solent via the Telegraph)
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Still looks as “fresh and pious as the day he died”??? What picture are they looking at? Looks pretty mummified to me.
Oltrarno, Italy | Relics and Reliquaries
Resting in…
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels | Los Angeles, California | Atlas Obscura
A change of the pace for the transcendtal instead.
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