February 2011
15 posts
January 2011
26 posts
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via fuckyeahexistentialism, savagemike) (via havissard)(via savagemike) (via yeahiwasintheshit) (via deathbeforedigital) (via jessicabreedlove)
Periodic Table of Google APIs and Developer... →
The Tragedy of Nepal 2011 | Andrew Hyde →
Wow. An excerpt:
If you hike the Annapurna, you support, directly, child labor. They might hide it during the high-season, but the ugly and shameful beast is there. The knock-off brand-name jacket you bought in Kathmandu are made by a different tragic set of small hands.
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge...
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms....”
– Alfred Hitchcock
Farewell to WWII hero Maj. Dick Winters, central... →
“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have...”
– John Wilmot
