2 classics to rile up your remaining designer friends (the ones that haven’t fled to higher ground).
Month: October 2013
My Little Brony
gonna get some for some coworkers for sure
Decorative gourd season
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal.
Driving Cadillacs in Our Dreams
Schleicher’s fable
Schleicher’s fable is a text composed in a reconstructed version of the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language, published by August Schleicher in 1868. Schleicher was the first scholar to compose a text in PIE. The fable is entitled Avis akvāsas ka (“The Sheep and the Horses”).
it would be nice to preserve the sounds of proto-indoeuropean in something a bit more durable than soundcloud.
http://web.archive.org/web/20131003025212/http://soundcloud.com/archaeologymag/sheep-and-horses/embed%5D
TED spoof
this remains one of the better TED spoofs, even though it was made in the service of marketing prometheus.
Games are high culture
we discussed a while ago how mass effect is high culture. now it is gtav’s turn. ps: i maintain a playlist of mass effect 3 playthroughs
Codex Serafini
the weirdest book in the world.
Windows 95 Tips
Most traveled person
Others have visited just as many countries, but Bown made a point of sticking around and immersing himself in each culture. “Some of the least travelled people I’ve ever met have been to 100 countries — what they do is fly between major cities, stop off in the airport, and then say that they’ve ‘done’ such and such country. such people are passengers, not travelers.”
Gregor J. Rothfuss 