The Future, Comic Sans, 6
Reading the O.E.D.
And these are just the A words:
Astorgy is the lack of natural affection when it would normally be present.
Accismus is an insincere refusal of a thing that is desired.
Agathokakological means made up of both good and evil.
the changing face of the american newspaper
It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, and the stories are shorter. There is less foreign and national news, less space devoted to science, the arts, features and a range of specialized subjects. Business coverage is either packaged in an increasingly thin stand-alone section or collapsed into another part of the paper. The crossword puzzle has shrunk, the TV listings and stock tables may have disappeared, but coverage of some local issues has strengthened and investigative reporting remains highly valued.
the high-heel race in Moscow
Design Q&A with Charles Eames
Q: What are the boundaries of Design?
“What are the boundaries of problems?”
something, 18
If I wanted, I could borrow her camera. It had a view-finder above the cassette deck.
the codus sinaiticus
The oldest known version of the New Testament is being put online.
Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago — it isn’t exactly clear where — the surviving 400 or so pages carry a version of the New Testament that has a few interesting differences from the Bible used by Christians today.
The Gospel of Mark ends abruptly after Jesus’ disciples discover his empty tomb, for example. Mark’s last line has them leaving in fear.
“It cuts out the post-resurrection stories,” said Juan Garces, curator of the Codex Sinaiticus Project. “That’s a very odd way of ending a Gospel.”
James Davila, a professor of early Jewish studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the Codex also includes religious works foreign to the Roman Catholic and Protestant canons — such as the “Epistle of Barnabas” and the “Shepherd of Hermas,” a book packed with visions and parables.
Davila stressed that did not mean the works were necessarily considered Scripture by early Christians: They could have been bound with the Bible to save money.
the world’s oldest blogger dies at 108
Olive Riley, a 108 year old Australian woman, also known as the world’s oldest blogger, passed away two weeks after making her last post.
“It was mind blowing to her,” Stone said. “She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while.”
Born in the remote mining town of Broken Hill in 1899, Riley blogged regularly in the last year of her life about growing up in the Outback, raising three children and working as a farm cook and bartender earlier in her life.
Her blogs can be found at allaboutolive and worldsoldestblogger.
(thanks, David)
rebuilt boat to the afterlife
600 fragments of a boat meant to ferry a pharaoh to the afterlife will be excavated from a pit in Egypt and reconstructed.
“In Egypt, almost everything real had its counterpart meaning or significance in the spiritual world. But there’s a lot of debate as to whether these vessels ever were used or not,” Darnell said.
Those who argue the vessels may have touched water point to rope marks on the wood that could have been caused by the rope becoming wet and then shrinking as it dried.
But Hawass believes these were symbolic vessels, not funerary boats used to bring the pharaoh Khufu’s embalmed remains up the Nile from the ancient capital of Memphis for burial in the Great Pyramid, the oldest and largest of Giza’s pyramids.
The opposite of building a ship in a bottle.
al dente
The mustard seeds have a toothy feel like caviar.
picture of thief asleep on stolen goods
solitary bees, 60
I need you to scratch my back.
Anything else?
Why don’t you just take care of that.
Fish Pedicures
1040hp Hemi-powered Rolls Royce
Frank Calloway, 112 year old artist from Alabama
Frank Calloway is a 112 year old artist from Alabama who spends up to 9 hours a day drawing murals sometimes 30 feet long.
He was born on July 2, 1896, and has lived in mental health centers since 1952, when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Details about Calloway’s youth are few. He says he remembers growing up with brothers and, as a “little, bitty, little boy,” playing under the quilts his mother made as if they were tents. He has no known family left and there is no record of his ever being married. He talks frequently about working hard and mentions laying railroad rails, cutting lumber, farming and working for a blacksmith, but there are no records of his life before he entered the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation system.
the 100-billion dollar note
Zimbabwe has introduced a 100-billion dollar note in an attempt to combat 2.2 million percent inflation.
In January, a 10-million-dollar note was issued, then a 50-million-dollar note in April. In May, notes for 100 million and 250 million dollars were issued, swiftly followed by those for five billion, 25 billion and 50 billion.
The southern African nation, currently gripped by a post-election crisis, has been ravaged by hyperinflation which shot up from 165,000 percent in February to 2.2 million in June.
Independent economists however believe the official inflation figure is grossly understated, estimating it could be running between 10 million and 15 million percent.
Perhaps they are the least happy nation.
NFL IQ by Postion Played
smart parking in san francisco
San Francisco has outfitted 6,000 parking spots with wireless sensors that determine if a parking space is occupied.
Drivers can access SFPark’s up-to-date information via their cell phone, but to keep everyone safe on the road, the city also plans to install battery-operated street signs that display the number of empty spots available in nearby streets.
Apparently, these 4-inch-by- 4-inch plastic sensors not only determine when vehicles are parked, but also when they depart, and a when a new one replaces it, which has city officials thinking of ways drivers could feed the parking meter without returning to their car.
Tim Davis, pictures of My Audience
designers’ favorite typefaces
(via swissmiss)
trouser snake
A woman in Maine found “8 feet of reticulated python” in her laundry.
elderly woman saved from kangaroo by pet dog
Rosemary Neal, an elderly Australian woman, was saved from a kangaroo attack by her son’s pet dog.
The 6-foot-5-inch kangaroo lunged without warning at 65-year-old Rosemary Neal as she went to check on some horses in a paddock on the property near Mudgee, 160 miles northwest of Sydney on Friday, son Darren Neal said.
The kangaroo “just jumped up and launched straight at her,” Darren Neal said. “He hit her once and she just dropped and rolled. My dog heard her screaming and bolted down and chased him off.
“It wasn’t for the dog she’d probably be dead.”
Amy
zoophilia (what, no donkeys?)
(via buzzfeed)
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