October 2010
Full text of Jon Stewart's ending speech at The... →
Thanks to mappeal. Here’s the line I liked the most:
If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
..oh, and..
And sometimes, the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes, it’s just New Jersey.
“So a few weeks back, an older woman walks into the store and says something...”
– Boing Boing
Earthlings →
..is a feature length documentary about humanity’s absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called “non-human providers.”
via bendyourcircuit
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Depeche Mode – It's Called A Heart →
This morning’s waking up song. No idea how those happen.
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“Some people make a red dot and it’s the sun; other people make the sun and it’s...”
– Picasso
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Textism: The Evolution of Writing →
A concise walk through writing and printing history which may give you some ideas as to why serifs are serifs, and why they bend this way or that way. Again, my respect to Dean Allen.
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Die Post
Years back, trams in Sofia had post boxes on the sides of the trailers right next to the doors. One didn’t have to go to the post or search for a box — they were cruising around the city. I tried to find out if those boxes still exist and failed, but in the process, stumbled upon an explanation as to why they existed in the fist place.
In 1908, when the first larger vehicles were set...
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Norwegian Hammerworks Corp.
Let me tell you ‘bout the way the hammer moves
The hammer goes up and down and hits the nail on the head each time, that’s the point
I write 1998, and it’s getting hard to go to sleep at night And hard to get up in the morning I tell myself, I been going too hard, too rash, too long, too long
But this is not the truth, there’s no sign of no big break down It’s...
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bt.etree.org | Community Tracker →
In celebration to the anally retentive behaviour of The Music Industry towards youtube in l’Allemagne. A reminder of the good old tree of live recordings — some brilliant! — by musicians who allow bootlegging.
