Daily Meh

2009

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March 54

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2008

December 80

November 65

October 60

September 52

August 54

July 12

June 62

May 55

April 70

March 77

February 108

January 206

2007

December 254

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September 200

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Measuring meaning

Presumably, to be succinct means to cram a lot of meaning into few words. Best of Wikipedia (as...

Newton’s laws of motion, from a 1729 translation of...

I wish more people were doing stuff like this: Guest post on Jason Santa Maria’s...

Medical Apparatus (!), by Kirill Kuletski. From a series of...

“Sometimes I pretend to be Neptune.” Wonderful....

The above is a very snappy graphic floating around the web...

“Fox News shows should probably carry a warning: Contact your...”
— Louis Menand. (via 3qd)

Darwin Among the Machines (1863)

“Always remember to close all parentheses. We’re not...”
— Fake AP Stylebook.

Super Osama Bin Laden Kulfa Balls, Pakistani milk and...

Canadian $4 coin depicting Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Anon is Dead (1926)

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor...

Sometimes I can’t think of anything to write on this blog. Everyone who writes anything except...

“English is essentially what happens when you can’t...”
— John M. Ford, via Essentialist...

The Origins of Language: Divine Providence or...

Stigler's law of eponymy

If you shade the odd and the even numbers in Pascal’s...

Unequal Beauty Silence

Avmakt.

I think I discovered an untranslatable but very useful word today. I don’t know how I was...

If anyone wants to start up Fuck Yeah, Irony, I contribute the following fact: according to this and...

“You have broken the scepter of despotism, you have...”
— Women’s Petition to the...

Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich

Reason #326 why analog grain > digital noise.

There’s a mouse between me and the floor above. I can hear it running around in the ceiling,...

I’m clearly not in touch with the zeitgeist since I...

Can Bad Men Make Good Brains Do Bad Things?

Floor plan in the fourth dimension, by Erik Johansson.

The Embedding Problem

Dynamism, Legacy of the Visigoths

If there are no soft drinks, I don’t want to be part...

I knew I’d be opening up for misunderstandings when I wrote about truth, but I didn’t...

Tl;dr: David Hume says: “Truth is awesome. Fuck with...

Truth is not multiple

I wish truth was a holy word. I wish we were more reverential when talking about truth. Talking...

From Forest Defenders, by Christopher LaMarca. (via)

Hip-Hop Physics

Ironic process theory

By Vivian Maier. From Flickr: I purchased a giant lot of...

Yes, it’s true: I have an extra-special super-great...

Grocery store advertising “5 min. chitchat” for...

The Art of Fiction: Jack Kerouac (pdf)

Sagas

I have a mythical uncle. He’s not mythical because he didn’t exist, but because he died...

Kisses compares the magnitudes of stuff. Someone had fun...

The Last Town on Earth: An Interview with...

… yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Liu Bolin paints himself into his surroundings. He’s...

The scene that smells of zine spirit

“Days have colors. There are gray Tuesdays, those Tuesdays...”
— Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Rust...

Near Rio Blanco, Colorado, by Jesse Chehak. The whole series...

“Great writers are either husbands or lovers. Some writers...”
— Susan Sontag.

Adam Bartos, Los Angeles.

“The third girl I slept with used to call my penis my raison...”
— Hear the Wind Sing....

A year for printing and making real...

So, I got thinking about Things Our Friends Have Written on the Internet 2008, which was a newspaper...

1 and a ½ thought

Some studies have suggested people think upwards of 12,000 thoughts per day. I’m sorry,...

“It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid...”
— Raymond Chandler, describing...

“His social quiescence was so extreme that it inspired his...”
— Seed Magazine on Paul Dirac.

“What most distinguishes the generation who have approached...”
— Walter Lippmann, 1929. (via) ...

“Galileo’s failure to move the Earth to the center of...”
— Clunis, on reddit.

Chaturaji, a chess-like four player game. Originally, which...

Why it's so hard to put sex in the...

“Going for US $2.99, some would say GameBoy Camera is rather...”
— iPhone Review: GameBoy Camera...

Learn something every day: in 1998, Nintendo released the...

“Modern art is a waste of time. When the zombies show up, you...”
— Kelly Link, Some Zombie...