February 2012
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Feb 29th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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“We twa hae paidl’d in the burn, Frae morning sun till dine; But seas...”
– From Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
Feb 26th
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Nancy Myers
Anaïs Nin described her as a puma and wrote: “I think often of Nancy talking with her eyes, her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift.” (Via the Guardian.) Nancy Myers - Artist, graphic designer, wife of author Lawrence Durrell.
Feb 25th
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“I’m now labeled ‘celebrity wife’; does that mean I’m a celebrity and a wife or...”
– Kalki Koechlin, actress. Via Twitter.
Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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“The only joke I ever heard about Syrian President Assad was told by a Lebanese....”
– Thomas Friedman (via Michael Totten.)
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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“A girl who is asleep, weeping or absent is not to be considered for marriage.”
– The Kamasutra, by Vatsayana.
Feb 18th
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Dr Green's Coffee House Tour
View Dr Green’s 18th-Century Coffeehouse Tour in a larger map Read more about the tour here.
Feb 17th
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Nth Day of Christmas
By the nth day of Christmas, my true love had sent to me n(n+1)(n+2)/6 gifts. Explanation and proof here. From John D. Cook’s Endeavour blog.
Feb 16th
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“Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe...”
– G. K. Chesterton, Heretics.
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Black and White
Calvin: How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then? Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just that the world was black and white then. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too. Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and...
Feb 10th
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Chaps
Met a chap the other day. He spoke to me about trading models. He said that it wasn’t difficult to develop a strategy that would make small incremental gains consistently over a period of time. Then, he said, it would collapse spectacularly, and you’d get, erm, slaughtered. Look at carry, he said. It did very well for years, and then the markets spooked, he said, and everyone got, erm,...
Feb 9th
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“The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience...”
– Richard Brautigan, Hawkline Monster.
Feb 8th
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Slithergadee
The Slithergadee has crawled out of the sea. He may catch all the others, but he won’t catch me. No you won’t catch me, old Slithergadee, You may catch all the others, but you wo– Shel Silverstein
Feb 7th
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Punk
(From Peter Watts: Blank Generation: original punk posters in South London)
Feb 6th
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“Panicker saar: You are telling Pakistan is not having skin and India will bat...”
– Perumselva Pandiyan, comment in Readers speak out! on Rediff.com, Apr 17, 2005.
Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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“… But when I come home, hoping for a further degree of peace and quiet, I...”
– The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 20 Nov 1668.
Feb 4th
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LOTR Project: Complete Lord of the Rings family... →
lotrproject: Two days ago I submitted a post here on tumblr concerning my project of doing a complete Lord of the Rings family tree. You shared and liked it over 140 times! Since then, the site has been featured on metafilter, theonering.net, io9 and HuffingtonPost and received 25 000 visits. Thank you!
Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Hindi Pulp Fiction
From the Rajan-Iqbal series by S. C. Bedi.
Feb 1st