January 2011
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Happy FUNK-MAS!
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kaleidoscope: It’s funny and weird that there are... →
akuat:
It’s funny and weird that there are no good words, in common usage, to describe people who like stuff, broadly: films, magazines, books, music, art, fashion, news, high-, low-, and middlebrow. For example: most of the people reading this.
Think about that range of people, and then think of the terms we have to describe them. “Pretentious” is what gets thrown around in college, and...
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And now you know my name
But I don’t feel...
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Which will you go for?
Which will you love?
Which...
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Drake writes with detachment, more as an observer than participant,… ”as if he were viewing his life from a great, unbridgeable distance.”[93] Kirby described Drake’s lyrics as a “series of extremely vivid, complete observations, almost like a series of epigrammatic proverbs”, though he doubts that Drake saw himself as a poet. Instead he believes that...
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Listen
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Drake was obsessive about practising his guitar playing, and would often stay up through the night, experimenting with tunings and working on songs. His mother remembered hearing him “bumping around at all hours. I think he wrote his nicest melodies in the early-morning hours.”[18]
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Lifting the mask from a local clown, feeling down...
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His father remembered “writing him long letters, pointing out the disadvantages of going away from Cambridge…a degree was a safety net, if you manage to get a degree, at least you have something to fall back on;… his reply to that was that a safety net was the one thing he did not want.”[11]
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crookedindifference:
Yann Tiersen - La Valse...
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The OED Online Redesign →
akuat:
I love this a little more than I should—just in time for paper-writing season.
“We’ve tried to tilt the site more towards the English language than towards the dictionary as an end in itself.”
This is exactly what online dictionaries have been missing. The dictionary as a tome for exploration rather than a streamlined tool, albeit useful, for looking up definitions,...
NASA to hold news conference on breakthrough in... →
fuckyeahspace:
‘The details are being kept under wraps until NASA’s 2 p.m. EST news conference on Thursday, but a brief press release from the government agency via PRNewswire reveals that the topic will be “an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” The news conference will be broadcast live on NASA TV and on nasa.gov.’
aliens?