February 2012
500px: Another afternoon of gossip →
500px: Viola 3 →
Photographs of Dickens's London
More about the book here. There’s also a rather cool iPhone/iPad app, Dickens Dark London.
(via 19th-century Photographs Dickens’s Victorian London. This was the best site for linking to the photos, but you may want to visit The Telegraph’s article for expanded and very informative captions.)
More of a similar nature at Dickens London on the Charles Dickens Page (which is...
Simultaneously clever and disgusting.
(via Stargazing blog by Malene Arpe)
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So, I'm stupid.
Apparently. Live the Tumblr iPhone app, but … ummm … well, you see … I can’t figure out how to follow a new Tumblr I discover on my own (not through the find someone to follow option).
January 2012
Lists | LibraryThing →
LibraryThing has added a great (beta) section of user-created lists. Lists of what, you ask? Well, lists of great books, of course, but also lists of books about women with no heads, lists of things that really shouldn’t be on LibraryThing, books about public transportation.
It’s a new feature, and I can’t find a link to it from the home page, but it’s loads of fun. Not...
either learn the difference between you're and...
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
Anonymous asked: not meaning this in a mean way: Katy Perry looks like her*, not the other way around, katy did a lot of research to look like an old movie star
Letter From Detroit
lareviewofbooks:
INGRID NORTON writes us from the Motor City. I was sitting in the Telway diner around the edge of midnight. The Telway is a story in itself: a chrome island built during the 1940s, floating on a blighted stretch of Michigan Avenue. Telway is staffed by the Appalachian whites who long ago moved to Detroit for work and, more recently, to the suburbs to live. It’s open 24 hours...
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December 2011
11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard →
Kara Kovalchik, mentalfloss.com
Who knew that some noises could eventually become as extinct as the passenger pigeon? Depending on your age, you or your kids or grandchildren may have only heard some of the following sounds in old movies, if at all. 1. Rotary Dial…
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Longform: Best of 2011 →
longformorg:
Our second annual Best Of list is here.
The top 20 stories of the year, plus best lists on Arts & Culture, Crime, Essays, Media, Money, Politics, Science, Sex, Sports, Tech, and War
“your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
– chuck palahniuk
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