February 2011
January 2011
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Not by the Direct Method.: Inca technology: a kind... →
jessnevins:
Although I may be reading too much into the following:
Andean cultures did make tools…but rather than making them out of steel, they preferred fiber. The choice is less odd than it may seem. Mechanical engineering depends on two main forces: compression and tension. Both are employed in…
This is relevant to my interests.
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So at lunch I was reading the graphic novel adaptation of a Babysitter’s Club Book. Don’t laugh, they’re fucking awesome. Anyway, this was the one where Claudia’s grandmother has a stroke, right? Raina Telgemeier is so good at facial expressions and character designs and BASICALLY, I was sitting in the staff room sniffling because NO NOT MIMI. But then another part of my...
Drunken Carping: 173 →
drunkencarp:
You pace around some more. It isn’t cold here, luckily; back home you’d need at least a jacket at this time of year. Visibility is low, however. You cut the lights on the car, and until your eyes adjust you can’t see your hand in front of your face; your eyes may be open or closed, your brain is…
“Coming into a feminist conversation with, “Have you considered that sometimes...”
– The above is a great excerpt from a post at Fugitivus a couple years ago. The post is longish, and definitely worth a read, but this particular quote stood out. (via tithenai)
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“Books-A-Million has found another way to deal with empty music and DVD sections...”
– A New Look for Bookstores; Publishers Weekly, January 3 2011, pg 21.
I have a theory about Twilight, and how it was almost an incredibly amazing work of genius. BEAR WITH ME.
What if Bella were an unreliable narrator? BOOM the entire series would have been incredible. I don’t think this is the way it’s meant to be read at all, but think how cool it would have been if this were true. I mean, she’s a self-obsessed, vacant 17 yr-old that we’re...
"A Wrinkle In Time" In 90 Seconds →
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“I like to think Charlie is the passageway to reality for these movies, in...”
– Billy Burke, actor, quoted in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The official illustrated movie companion.
Is Charlie the biggest failure ever, or GREATEST failure ever?
Exit Stage Left
lasercrows:
I want to create a crime thriller starring Snagglepuss entitled “Heavens to Murdertroid!”.
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