January 2010
56 posts
definitions
Conservative (noun) A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. Lawyer (noun) One skilled in circumvention of the law.
- excerpts from The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
On a completely related note, Ambrose is an awesome name.
“Bill and Melinda Gates announced plans Friday to invest $10 billion in the fight...”
– Gates: $10B vaccine program could save 8.7M lives - CNN.com
Sometimes all the zeros blur together and I miss stories like this on the first read through. So Bill Gates gave away some money. Big deal.
No. Bill gates plan to invest $10 billion dollars. $10,000,000,000. And it could save nine million...
“He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; at Richards’ quick...”
– The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
small worlds →
I don’t know why I keep on stumbling upon these excellent games.
A pretty straight forward game, very mind numbing.
Incredibly pretty. My favorite world is the snowing one.
masculinity
avrair:
When did masculinity get so screwed up? Since when did “being a man” become being arrogant and aggressive and going after what you want, regardless of others opinions? Since when did it mean to be without weakness, being a strong pillar of stability to those around you? Since when has it been about acting cool, and being rough-around-the-edges, and saying crude jokes? When did it turn...
WatchI wish stuff like this could actually happen in real life.
Haha, I thought that one custodian in the blue was going to come back out with a gatling gun or something.
The Company of Myself →
avrair:
This is for you, Elijah.
It’s a short, simple, easy game, but the last two levels are absolutely epic. Soooo fun.
Sooo good. Not nearly long enough. It took me so long to figure out the last level. I dearly hope they make a longer sequel.
“I do things carefully, slowly, quietly, thoughtfully, and discreetly. I work...”
canabalt →
Another fantastic way to waste time. Sometimes I think the simplest games are the best.
Really quite an aesthetic game.
My record is 3286 5560.
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
– Leon Trotsky
“The older you get, the stronger the wind gets—and it’s always in...”
– Pablo Picasso
a man called minu
Once in the country of Akim, in the hills far back from the coast, there was a man named Younde. He was a simple man who had never been far from home, and he spent his time at farming and hunting like the other people of the village. He had often heard talk about the big town of Accra by the ocean, and all the wonderful things to be found there, but he had never seen it. He had never been farther...
edible?
I always thought the concept of an edible chess set was really cool.
There ARE those Pepperidge Farm Chessman butter cookies. You could theoretically play a chess game with those, using the chocolate version for the opposing side. You’d have to buy quite a number of cookie packages before you would get enough pawns though, and that is just not economical.
No, I would think that the sets...
reading
marco:
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one...
Knytt Stories →
A fun, simple way to blow a couple of hours.
I find it perfect for when I want nothing more but to numb my mind to the world.
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die tomorrow.”
– James Dean
“Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do...”
– Alexander Graham Bell, on invention
“If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you...”
– Sir James M. Barrie
