November 2009
62 posts
“Avoid using ‘decimate’ as someone will pipe up about it meaning ‘remove 1/10th...”
– Fake AP Stylebook (via inky)
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
inky:
mrgan:
I just Instapapered many, many of these.
merlin:
If there were a page that best epitomized why I LOVE lists of links (and why I viscerally HATE the way webcocks have turbo-shat on the genre), this would be Exhibit A.
Technical instructions from Dr. Seuss →
thank you alexinwonderland!
midi apps →
Good Lord, →
you can bake Toll House cookies for yourself.
*runs off to buy baking supplies*
saw a meteor!
Meteor shower tonight! →
Thank you yams!
Speak like a 1950s hipster →
Cool yer jets sinhound, I’m off to the riding academy!
Fizmotropolis →
† Ensoniq
"voilin" →
Description of morning breath
magicmolly:
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.
-Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
Executed Offenders →
(Can a prisoner request anything for his last meal?)
Action Park →
bestofwikipedia:
Action Park was a waterpark/motor themed park open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey, on the property of the former Vernon Valley / Great Gorge ski area, today Mountain Creek. Its popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, under-aged, underpaid and sometimes under-the-influence employees; equally intoxicated and...
Watchthesimonsound:
A vintage studio (and we are talking 50’s vintage here!) in your computer… This is a lot of fun and actually gives a very good insight into the techniques used by the pioneering electronic composers of the 50s, for whom a keyboard synthesizer was a long way off in the future. Play with sine wave generators, noise generators, tape machines, simple filters and ring mod to create...
For thousands of years people have remained...
magicmolly:
Charming man, do you—could you?—know that I am spying on your solitary Sunday? From thirty-six inches away I watch you eat French toast and post on SurvivorSucks.com. I note your lintless sweater and the slackening waistband of your jeans (good thing you will finish that toast) and your wet hair; your socks that have lost their elastic and bundle like inner tubes at your ankles; your...
FUCK
that empty crisp packet smells good
i wish i was still eating them
“The potatoes are selected, then sliced and cooked in sunflower oil. When cooked,...”
– when you remove the bullshit and adjectives from the tayto bistro crisp packet blurb you get a description of regular cheese and onion crisps
i need to make a list like this:
unburyingthelead:
littlepotato:
q: what do you want to do most in the next two years?
a: hunt butterflies, especially certain whites, in the mountains of iran and in the middle atlas. quietly take up tennis again. have three new suits made in london. revisit landscapes and libraries in america. find a harder and darker pencil.
an interview with v. nabokov
from here.
Seconded.
makes my...
Drugs?
I get a headrush from drinking water too fast
