December 2010
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
– Jules de Gaultier (via misswallflower)
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I want to go to there.
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Life is what you make of it. Some people get Legos to work with and others shit....
– Chuck, on the topic of spaceships (via chuckhistory)
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A Christmas Cacophany
Christmas at Bug Comic
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Foucault’s Pendulum
Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
The first chapter could be used as a final exam in a Western Civilization class. Eco is an astonishingly literate man. I read about a third of the book; the plot was slow-moving and the characters artificial, but Eco’s fascinating prose kept me interested longer than the story did.
I get the impression this is the book that inspired Dan Brown’s...
Neil Gaiman’s creepy Christmas poem “Nicholas Was…” gets an appropriate animated adaptation, courtesy of 39 Degrees North.
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Demonstrate your loyalty
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You can always spot the kids who grew up with the Nolanverse Batman, ‘cause...
– (via danielholter)
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Anti-dinosaur bigotry, or just good common sense?
(via boingboing: ieffinglovedinosaurs)
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Werner Herzog reads "The Night Before Christmas"
Have a harrowing holiday!
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Defending Constantine
Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom, by Peter J. Leihart
A review by Rev. Dr. Charles Erlandson
Peter Leithart’s latest book, Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom, is a stunning work of scholarship on a closely related collection of issues that are among the most important in Christianity: the life of Constantine,...
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“We No Speak Americano”
“We No Speak Americano”
Performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding. Film by Jonny Reed. Music: Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup
More: See their YouTube channel.
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Everything old is new again
Katie the Hamster reenacts the Internet’s oldest meme.
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Glacier graffiti
World’s first graffiti on polar icebergs
(via ysugano: buZzhunt.co.uk)
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