January 2012
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Everyone Is Different by Jack Merridew
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poysti:
All the awards for you.
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“Lightning was waiting in the heavens, of course. Sooner or later, the lightning...”
– A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire
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concludes:
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“… There is a globe welling up inside of me;
Mountain ranges ridging my skin,...”
– Catherine Pierce (Because I’ll Never Swim in Every Ocean)
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“Do you suffer what a French paleontologist called “the distress that makes human...”
– Annie Dillard (via talktofrank)
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So because Tumblr isn't working, I'm reading about...
vengeanceandfrogurtwithsprinkles:
Confetti is commonly used at social gatherings such as parties, weddings, and Bar Mitzvahs, but is considered taboo at funerals.
Why am I laughing so hard.
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First world (journalism) problems
davidwescott:
This week The Economist launched a new section on China. They said it was the first time since 1942 they’ve singled out a country for this type of complete coverage (in ‘42 it was the US being singled out). So what are they covering and what are they leaving out? Markets, in. Dissent, in. Tibet, in. Arts and literature, out. In an article in the same issue, The Economist,...
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Avaaz - Stop ACTA →
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police what we do on the Internet. Last week we successfully pushed back the US censorship bills — if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat — add your voice now!
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One thing I never understood about fanfics
dreamerbee:
Why people ALWAYS smell of the most strange things?
It’s always like
“She smelled of chocolate, orange, roses and his favorite Haribo sweets”
Or “He smelled of honey, Earl Grey tea and liquorice with just a hint of grass and mint”
I mean, c’mon. They’re people, not some kind of scented sachets or something
(That was actually one of the things I liked the most about The Time...
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Fritinancy: Into a Bar →
1. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
2. A dangling modifier walks into a bar. After finishing a drink, the bartender asks it to leave.
3. A question mark walks into a bar?
4. Two quotation marks “walk into” a bar.
5. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, planning to drink.
6. The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
7. Three intransitive verbs walk...
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“In this sentence, the word and occurs twice, the word eight occurs twice, the...”
– A Self-Descriptive Sentence - Inventory | Futility Closet
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Keep Calm and Put the Kettle On: A... →
for-a-lark:
This movement could use some more accessories, no? I’ve gone and made a handful of custom bracelets to flaunt our campaign, and I will be giving away 10 of them. The rules are very simple:
1) You may Like this post once, and Reblog this post up to three times, for a grand total of four entries per person.
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A date which will live in infamy.
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Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this, saying it’s me? Answer simply, someone answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever, for whom alone accusative I exist, in the pit of my inexistence, of his, of ours, there’s a simple answer. It’s not with thinking he’ll find me, but what is he to do, living and bewildered,...
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Difficult languages: Tongue twisters | The... →
In search of the world’s hardest language
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English Double Contractions →
vowelsme:
A list of those lovely words in English like he’sn’t, they’d’ve, y’all’re, and many more.
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“Most proofs are just bullshit. Here, I will prove that crocodiles are square.”
– Prof Z. (via copythisdown) 