June 2008
Report: U.S. 'preparing the battlefield' in Iran -... →
Lovely.
“Some scholars have stated that the phrase implies strong overtones of...”
– Fisher Price: A Restrospective
Beauty
How do you share a warm summer night like this one?
When fireflies glitter like infinitesimal novas thrown by the hand of a careless god into the trees that line a dark and empty road; when a cool breeze brushes your hair from your face and clears the tattered clouds away to show the shining stars; when you lose yourself away from human things and your eyes and ears remember a world before...
Truth
I felt like this throughout my pre-collegiate schooling, but replacing “internet” with “world”.
dailymeh:
Recent internet drama got me thinking. If I have no haters when I die, I’ll know I’ve been doing something wrong. All interesting people have haters. Humans are so put together that if someone does anything out of the ordinary, some of us will hate them.
I CAN HAS WAR →
More win than your body has room for.
PWNED →
And so it begins... →
This is the first post I’m making on what will be at least a summer-long storytelling project spanning the Widening Gyre blog, Twitter and Brightkite accounts, and possibly other types of web media.
Wish me luck!
Wordle Joke →
via @jonathancoulton
Old Poetry - Angel of the Storm
When on hot and sullen summer nights, Thunder comes rolling down off the high hills Like the mutter and grumble of gods, And lightning stalks the high places, My CD player rests silent No screens flicker to vibrant life My books lie unread; My stories, unwritten. I lie outside, watching, As the storm sweeps down off the mountains, A grey curtain that hides their outline from my eyes, And the...
WatchWhat I did last summer.
(more at Flickr)
Ender's Game
This book should be required reading for all high school seniors, or perhaps for college freshmen or even sophomores or juniors. Regardless, there are many things I didn’t grasp the first time through. I will need to read it again, and again, and again.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den →
…a text written in Classical Chinese relating the titular story, consisting only of 92 copies of the sound shi, in different tones.
via dailymeh
Tonight, I plan to lie out on Wilder Bowl under the full moon and watch the fireflies come out.
Take that, adulthood.
“If you don’t love her
Someone else will take her off your hands
If you...”
– Weapon, by Tigers That Talked
3:16 AM
After swearing that I wasn’t going to get addicted to this damn book, I got so hooked that I couldn’t go to bed until I finished it.
Someone stake me.
On Vampire Fiction
“Vampire fiction is an odd and occasionally unfortunate genre. It lies somewhere between fantasy and romance, with a few too many references to “his burning eyes” for comfort. Thanks to the internet and suburban adolescents, there’s a lot of really bad VF out there, much of it dripping with vampire sex and really kinky fantasies. Not that I have anything against really...
The Prophylactic Prophet →
I am in awe.
45 lessons life has taught me by Regina Brett →
Pretty much hits the nail on the head.
The Answer
OpenOffice Calc Easter Egg - Life, The Universe and Everything
Put =ANTWORT(“Das Leben, das Universum und der ganze Rest”) into any cell and press ENTER. The result is the famous number 42 from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
(via the OpenOffice wiki)
Girl survives lightning strike, then wins $20 in... →
Nice.
This theme really sucks for reblogs, doesn’t it?
A Masterful Piece of Work
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“Have you ever had one of those Christmases where you scamper down the stairs...”
– via Nick Heer
Personally, I haven’t made up my mind yet; I may or may not get one.
Do Want →
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Happy Loving Day! →
In my last post, I said, “I hope humankind can do the right thing here.”
Sometimes we do.
"What the hell is a human?" →
I hope humankind can do the right thing here.