A telephone is a fantastically rude thing…
Drive-by Blogging
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2009-11-09
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2009-11-08
A friend of mine asked a speaker if he could say, in his language, how many spears he had. None of the Australian aboriginal languages has any words for numbers other than 1 and 2, so all he could do was list them. He said, ‘Well, I have a ceremonial spear, a long throwing spear, a shorter throwing spear, a jabbing spear and a broad blade spear.’ ‘That makes five,’ my friend said. ‘If you say so,’ he agreed. ‘If I took one away,’ my friend asked, ‘how many would you have left?’ ‘Well,’ he replied, ‘it depends on which one you took away, doesn’t it?’
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Music: Deathspell Omega – Procreation Epidemic
Video apparently taken from Sátántangó (1994), a Hungarian black-and-white movie over seven hours in length.
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How habitable is the Earth?
To a first approximation, from the perspective of prospective interstellar colonists, the Earth is uninhabitable. That we could imagine otherwise bespeaks a profound cognitive bias on our part (and a degree of relativism: because when all’s said and done, the Earth is a lot less hostile than, say, the surface of Venus or the cloud base of Jupiter).
Why is the Earth uninhabitable? Let’s play a thought experiment…
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2009-11-07
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]At the Gates – Windows
Early melodic death metal.
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You’re not allowed to try to get me into doomy screamy bands just because I like stoner rock.
— nostrich
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Wallsend Metro Station, “probably the only public facility in Britain in which the signage is in Latin.”
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“Gentlemen.”
(via blackandwtf)
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Enslaved – Isa
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