Wordle cloud of Paul Graham’s essays, whose favorite word apparently is “people”.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.Ray Bradbury (via Projectionist).
I suppose it’s time to quit the reblogging and announce this thing. I’m no scientist, but I have a strong interest in science. So, I decided to create a space to put pretty pictures and interesting links relating to science that I come over. It’s working out pretty well so far.
It’s a Tumblr group, so if you’re smart and interested, you can probably come play in it too. (If you are interested, reblogging or email — toalett at gmail — is fine.)
Retro gaming on real backgrounds. Some of these have been circulating, unsourced, which is a shame.
A fascinating New Yorker article that starts off with the case of M., who had such a terrible itch that she — or so the story goes — scratched through her skull to the brain; from there, it continues with a discussion of the nature and neuroscience of itching, of phantom sensations and ultimately of perception itself. (via Neurophilosophy)
Having endured a lot of goddamn impossibly itchy itching in my childhood, when I had all sorts of allergies, I can sympathize with H., who has had an itch that no scratching could relieve for the last eleven years:
“I find I am choosing itch relief over the pain that I am provoking by satisfying the itch,” he said.
Of course, that poor guy has it much, much worse than I ever had.
During World War II Picasso suffered some harassment from the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Paris. An inquisitive German officer, coming into his apartment, noticed a photograph of Guernica lying on a table. “Did you do that?” he asked Picasso. “No, you did,” said Picasso.Pablo Picasso quotations.
Via One by One, Shorpy writes:
August 21, 1922. Nowhere on the Internet will you find a picture of more guys simultaneously jumping off a tree than the 10 shown here.
I think they might be right. Either way, it’s a nice picture. That looks so fun.
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