June 2013
30 posts
“We went back to your place and listened to the White Album. We ordered in. We fought and made up and got good jobs and got married and bought an apartment and worked out and ate more and talked less.”
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Have you read Jenny Hollowell’s wonderful short story “A History of Everything, Including You”?
“The thing about black holes, their main defining feature, is that they’re black; and the thing about space, the basic space color, is it’s black. This makes lone black holes very hard to see!”
—Black Hole Hunting in the Andromeda Galaxy
Wondering what to eat for lunch?
Maybe you should check Wikipedia. Presenting The List of Sandwiches.
“Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said: ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
—Maurice Sendak would have been 85 today.
Bored? Killing time?
Make yourself useful! Help decode fragments from an ancient trash heap.
“The red area shows an embryonic chicken penis, before it starts to regress.”
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Go ahead, click through. No really, be my guest.
(This is actually a pretty interesting article though, guys: “Study reveals how birds lost their penises.”)
