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

m-up-ash

a mary poppins mash-up. very enjoyable:
http://chicagoist.com/2009/06/08/monday_afternoon_diversion_the_trip.php

misc.

a database that tells you all the dangerous toxins that are in your various cosmetic products (including facewash and barsoap). not for the anxious:
http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/

things you can use milk for (other than drinking):
http://lifehackery.com/2008/11/24/home-16/

historical figures who were difficult to assassinate:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16822_7-historical-figures-who-were-absurdly-hard-kill.html

intense historical photos:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/11/25best_slideshow200811

nicaragua

i read this book about nicaragua called the country under my skin, and it prompted me to look up this interview w the author (in some ways, better than the book):
http://www.arlindo-correia.com/020303.html

and this historical figure, mentioned only in passing in the book. she led other female troops to take control of the first city liberated from the somoza regime in nicaragua in 1979:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Maria_Tellez

stuff to look at

i like this guy's illustrations:
http://www.bariskesoglu.com/


and i like this guy's photography:
http://jasonnocito.com/

many things

animals:
1) cute, making friends w other animals:http://letsbefriends.blogspot.com/
2) not cute, eating other animals:http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/death-is-milliseconds-away/10927


cartoon (from hip hipster trio: andrew bird, chris ware, and this american life):
http://www.booooooom.com/2009/05/12/quimby-the-mouse-chris-ware/


sometimes it is just fun to reminisce about star treks of yore:

http://movies.ign.com/articles/980/980062p1.html



consider also these awkward family photos:
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

this video holds interest for me

austin vs. st. louis. the battle rages:
http://www.fox2now.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=3707170

gross

this post about parasitic worms is one of the most disgusting things i've ever read:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-horrific-parasitic-worms/10497

tetris furniture

i don't know what to say. i like it, but i think i would go insane, probably.
http://www.walyou.com/blog/2009/04/14/tetris-furniture-design/

upside of you going to denmark

among other things, police who appreciate bicyclists, hug them, and then encourage their safety:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/police-in-denmark-hu.html

dutch tulip fields

ummm, who knew? who knew a countryside could look like this? i didn't:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29388274@N07/2746649399/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1942657/The-week-in-pictures-May-9-2008.html?image=4

yes

someone in the academy acknowledges the something that is rank and gross in its nature (and calls for change):
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html?em

scotch is extra special special cool

scotch for beginners (including many things i didn't know):
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24978

3D graffiti is special cool

http://weburbanist.com/2007/09/21/3-amazing-3d-street-artists-urban-graffiti-from-around-the-world/

graffiti is cool

http://weburbanist.com/2009/04/24/the-history-of-modern-street-art-and-graffiti-continued/

photography

aurora australis:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/phenomenal-images-aurora-australis/9586

a dude walks across china (slightly more awesome than previous link):
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1908414

jews in the south

we do exist, and we've been there for some time. this article is about jewish academics who fled to the U.S. from nazi germany and took up work teaching in all black institutions:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124053723862951143.html#project%3DSLIDESHOW08%26s%3DSB124050067137248293%26articleTabs%3Darticle

alabama makes top story on nytimes.com!!!

i'm so excited that i haven't even read it yet:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/travel/escapes/24alabama.html?hp

the perfect woman

it turns out that the process of becoming a perfect woman is hilarious:
http://current.com/items/89771812_sarah-haskins-in-target-women-super-special.htm

from my architect friend:

a very cool architecture blog:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/sandstone.html

more inappropriate talking

this baby is giving a sermon. i don't even know how to parse this. i'm freaked out:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/21/baby-delivers-emotio.html

talking inappropriately

daley is nuts and thinks we should talk like shakespeare because he's nuts (thanks sarah):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/talk-like-shakespeare-day_n_188891.html


this dog talks and it is nuts (amy):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXo3NFqkaRM&NR=1

kena's webcomic

i've posted this before, and i will again, but my friend kena's webcomic is just so rad. here's her newest:
http://jointherector.wordpress.com/remy-and-althea/

birthday present links from friends

the conversations ppl have with their mothers, documented (ab):
http://www.postcardsfromyomomma.com/


a really beautiful, fun game (kb):
http://www.scarygirl.com/


and a birthday panda (bf):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pUwIypksfE

pretty pictures

basically, this is a collection of lots of pretty surrealist pictures to look at:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/04/spring-cleaning-of-mind-surreal-art.html

depressing, disgusting, purifying

a depressing, but very cool statue in nyc:
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=615

a man with two penises and an actual third leg. this can't be real, can it?
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/man-with-two-penises/9439

plants that can purify the air in your home:
http://webecoist.com/2009/04/08/air-purifying-plants/

time

a fun game:

http://deepleap.org/


extremely pretty pictures (infrared photography):


http://weburbanist.com/2009/04/02/amazing-works-of-infrared-photography/

the way sam cooke died

i feel as though i have been referring frequently to this wikipedia article. the basic facts are that sam cooke, that smooth, politically conscious crooner, wearing nothing but a jacket and shoes, was shot in the abdomen in the office of a hotel. he was chasing a woman whom he allegedly attempted to rape. read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke

i've been remiss

but here's a link w a video of the zelda theme song being played by lightning. i just wish they didn't feel like they had to do a mashup w sexy back.


http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24141

youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLAv3JHRwY

vampire plague

anthropologists found evidence of how italians dealt with the 1576 plague. vampire hunting:


http://uk.reuters.com/article/email/idUKTRE52B4RU20090312

condoms, canned goods, and syphilis

what people buy in recessions (some special time at home):

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1884149,00.html


syphilis:

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/8390

jean - piccard

yes, here's the the real inspiration behind the most amazing man fiction has created:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Felix_Piccard

oh no

sexist clothing tag. funny though:
http://failblog.org/2009/03/09/laundry-win/

things leema found on the internet today

urban camouflage (thanks leema!):
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/05/urban-camouflage-for-retail-based-close-combat/image-page/1/

obey

from kb. more israeli animation. this one is critical of the occupation:
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/03/saturday_morning_gaza_strip_is.php

holy shit

this MA-- this is an MA i would win. i would win it from everyone else, if it were winnable. oh em gee:

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5224SJ20090303?feedType=nl&feedName=usoddlyenough

no, we ain't gonna take it

clip from the movie network that was recently drawn to my attention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE&feature=related

what i ate this week... on MARS!

what people eat (courtesy of klooky):
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=57521&id=608888964#/photo.php?pid=1290184&id=608888964


6 word sci-fi stories (what's better than hemingway references and sci-fi?):
http://www.sixwordstories.net/category/subject/sci-fi/page/2/

on my way to dementia

working long hours messes you up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7909464.stm

pretty drawings

this dude makes some of my favorite comics. i met him once and made a fool of myself. check it out:

http://www.drooker.com/

pee wee herman says no to crack

weird:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agT2GVNQjao&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/23/the-nine-weirdest-psas-ev_n_168365.html&feature=player_embedded

i'm going to have to rethink my communication habits

why email gets ppl into trouble (it doesn't say what you think it says):
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0515/p13s01-stct.html

hurley has a blog!

jorge reyes plays one of my favorite characters on LOST, and he has a blog:
http://dispatchesfromtheisland.blogspot.com/

you will never leave your house again

99 time wasting links:
http://youshouldhaveseenthis.com/

cap their asses

"over the last 100 years, finance workers have mostly been paid wages proportionate to professionals in other industries — except for two periods: in the 1920’s through the start of the Great Depression, and in the 1980’s through the start of this economic downturn."

check it:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/let-the-human-capital-exodus-begin/

comics

http://www.blambot.com/grammar.shtml

graffiti is good

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/a-new-look-at-graffiti-writers-lives/?hp

i wish i didn't identify

with this procrastinanimation:
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=37929

foxes on a trampoline

very cute. located by naomi v.:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/12/video-foxes-on-a-tra.html

Zombies!

slow down, zombies ahead!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-zombiesfeb07,0,5280064.story


jane austen zombies!
http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7847/title,Pride-and-Prejudice-and-Zombies/


zombie donor card!
http://uuiuu.tumblr.com/post/75242627/bebelestrange-zombie-donor-card

putin lectures waste

putin is ridiculous, in addition to being evil and loving Abba cover bands. located by catherine:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7875372.stm


learn something you would pay $40K for, but do it for free:
http://www.academicearth.org/


an artist documents the waste of contemporary american consumer culture. located by kss:
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

funny video from amy

little kid on drugs after dental surgery. very funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my&feature=player_embedded

the politics of eloquence?

if you are as intrigued as am i, discuss:

http://www.delsquacho.com/articles/ten-youtube-translations.php

(somebody took youtube comments and translated them into more 'articulate' statements. reminds me of that link a while back where those two guys were translating a rap battle.)

stufffff

tiny monkeys:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/smallest-monkeys-world/6909


cool photography-- photos from the siege of leningrad overlaid w contemporary photos of the same locations:
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2235


immortal jellyfish:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22143

2 awesome things, at the same time!

math and the beatles!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123325321424929493.html

serial killers on the loose

5 killers who should never have been paroled:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16998_5-horrific-serial-killers-who-are-free-right-now.html

christian bale looks like kermit

this took someone a lot of time, but it's pretty funny:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/27350111.html

bah ha ha

english police criticized by the Plain English Campaign for posting signs with too-obvious messages such as "Don't Commit Crime":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/6992544.stm

2 really good websites on life in iraq

the first is a video blog. the filmmakers follow the lives of three young iraqi men as they try to live normally:
http://chattheplanet.com/index.php?page=videos


the second is a blog by an insightful iraqi man. it's really good:
http://last-of-iraqis.blogspot.com/

really special links

flow chart of heavy metal band names (awesomely special):
http://www.comicvsaudience.net/images/flow_heavymetal.jpg


every episode of are you afraid of the dark (arguably special):
http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/13.html

an etymological map of europe (very very clever special):
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-37310.html#backToArticle=591702

barack obama's favorite books (presidentially special):
http://www.abebooks.com/books/barack-obama-favorite-books.shtml?cm_ven=nl&cm_cat=nl&cm_pla=cme_obama&cm_ite=feature

fibonacci batman

http://www.diodepoetry.com/v2n2/content/seaton_m.html

kids

a woman auctions off the rights to name her child, and gets a lot of money for it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270328527480&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.com%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm38.l1313%26_nkw%3D270328527480%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1


i like this article about how much teachers need a happy hour:
http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/pencils-down-bottoms-up/

oh human nature

interesting summaries of studies about decision-making. worth a read for sure:
http://bookoutlines.pbwiki.com/Predictably-Irrational

5 bloody civilizations:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16972_5-most-terrifying-civilizations-in-history-world.html

assorted

hormone levels may make you cheat:
http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/01/14/hormones_infidelity/?AddInterest=1283

make yourself look like obama on the 'change' poster:
http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/

name the 27 countries in the EU in under 10 minutes (hint: don't forget malta or cyprus):
http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=524&p=1

four links

1) what the world looks like through the eyes of animals:
http://webecoist.com/2009/01/14/animal-vision-color-detection-and-color-blindness/

2) why I am more productive outside of the city:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/01/memory-improved-20-by-nature-walk.php

3)real love and anti-love potions. really honest to goodness:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/science/13tier.html?_r=1&em

4)this article is scary, but it provides a balanced look at why the bombing in gaza isn't helping anyone:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14goldberg-1.html?em

space

here's a cool video of satellite footage of the gps traces of london taxi cabs over the course of a night. really very cool:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/visualisations/taxis.shtml


there's a large roar coming from the outer reaches of our universe:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090107-aas-loud-cosmic-noise.html

kites that kill

pakistani killer kites:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/pakistan%E2%80%99s-deadly-kite-flying-craze/5758

repost

chad google reader shared this. it's great:

http://ffffound.com/image/a3835169e4f355dabe1acf08443ea986d3e02f86?c=2279335

nicaragua

emailed to me from kbs:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/11/nicaragua-world-ortega

Excerpts:
"The Sandinistas are closer to Don Corleone's Mafia than a political party"

"Do we think the Ortega government is perfect? No," wrote Chuck Kaufman, national co-ordinator of the US-based Nicaragua Network. "We have criticised violent excesses of Sandinista supporters during the recent electoral process. And we have cautioned that monitoring foreign funding of NGOs not be used as an excuse to persecute women's rights groups." Unlike many solidarity groups, however, Kaufman will not turn his back on the flawed Second Coming of the Sandinistas. "Do we think [it] is better than another rightwing, neoliberal government beholden to US masters? Absolutely."

actually, this whole website is rad

check it:
http://community.livejournal.com/found_objects/

smart kids, helpful pets, and gorey tips on being deflowered

in reverse order:

edward gorey wrote a weird-ass book about women being deflowered:
http://community.livejournal.com/found_objects/3699822.html?page=1

animals are so fucking awesome i can hardly handle it (dogs are the best):
http://webecoist.com/2009/01/05/disabled-animals-pets-rescue-owners/

these kids are already more successful than me, and it makes me feel a little happy and a little sad:
http://razoo.com/articles/Five_Kids_Who_Made_the_World_a_Better_Place

Israel-Palestine

I've been very preoccupied by what's happening in Gaza, as well as the discourse surrounding it. Here's a blog from someone else who is upset:
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/the_problem_with_israelpalesti.php

elephant art

this elephant is painting an elephant with his trunk:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk

more animals

weird animal:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/06/geoducks-are-strange.html

a buncha animals:

2008 in review

a collection of links to the greatest developments of science in 2008:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/22/50-things-we-know-now-we-didnt-know-time-last-year/life/

a collection of links to everything that happened in 2008:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21365

design and artstuffs

3D graffiti art seriously blows my mind. how do they do that? :
http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/29/top-10-3d-graffiti-artists-in-the-world/

glow-in-the dark solar powered mason jars:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/994a/

easy/cool snow sculptures that we can do a-plenty this winter in chicago:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/8-incredible-snow-face-sculptures/5310

and, spiders are probably the best designers. here's how a spider builds her web:
http://bitsandpieces.us/2009/01/05/how-spiders-make-their-webs/