how language shapes the way we think

superinteresting: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html

after a long hiatus

i don't do this much anymore, but this video is pretty fucking amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo

books, names, and mj

this book gives you book recommendations and it is sweet:
http://bookseer.com/

how some terrible things got their names (lynching, shrapnel, etc.):
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9773

mj's sweet dance moves have precursors. origins of the moonwalk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZcLWAmdco

mj likes the way he looks and wouldn't change anything:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-like.html

ummm, bones made of rubber?

this flexible woman's dancing is so creepy that it reminds me of voldo from soul calibur:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=3032665

other places

friend amy and her compadres speak of life in africa here. maybe my favorite blog right now:
http://ifpsenegal.blogspot.com/

a flickr photostream of the protests in iran:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arasmus/

randoms

good nytimes article about giving teachers six digit salaries:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/education/05charter.html?_r=1&hp

cool beds:
http://www.oddee.com/item_96623.aspx

what the 1930s thought about the future of fashion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txaR2HvnwVg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flj%2Dtoys%2Ecom%2F%3Fjournalid%3D4919638%26moduleid%3D423%26preview%3D%26auth%5Ftoken%3Dsessionless%3A1244224800%3Aembedcontent%3A4919638%2526423%2526%3A2927&feature=player_embedded

art, sex, and killer fashion

an artist i like:
http://www.amycaseypainting.com/2008.html

how smell (maybe) affects human sexuality:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14306

(literally) killer fashions:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16997_6-popular-fashion-trends-that-killed-people.html