December 2010
8 posts
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“Through the afternoon, the storm grew into an adventure. The snow came down in...”
– New York Times reports on this blizzard like an old timey newspaper and is awesome.
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 21st
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“The WikiLeaks affair has twofold value. On the one hand, it turns out to be a...”
– Not such wicked leaks | Presseurop – English Umberto Eco is inevitably a good read. I could quote more, and more diversely, but forget it. This. Just this.
Dec 21st
“Jayus: [Indonesian] ‘A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot...”
– 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World
Dec 11th
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“What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create...”
– Umberto Eco - SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’ (I like lists.)
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd