May 2010
16 posts
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety.
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revised research papers: 'I LIKE GETTING HEAD...
ABSTRACT
After hours of staring fruitlessly at a blank sheet of paper, waiting patiently for inspiration to strike, I thought to myself, “Rap is very hard to write.”
Luckily for rappers-on-the-rise such as myself, Hieu Nguyen and Brian Sa of Stanford took a corpus of rap lyrics and wrote a rap lyric generator. The generator can produce lines on a specific theme incorporating rhyme...
how the fuck do people get off of stilts? there is... →
my favorite proposed hypothesis, from will hellwarth: “With other smaller stils handed up to them by tall people. There are several ‘stilt energy levels’ much like ionization.”
argleton
Argleton is a “phantom” settlement that appears on Google Maps and Google Earth but does not actually exist.
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The anomaly was first noticed by Mike Nolan, head of web services at nearby Edge Hill University, who posted about it on his blog in September 2008.[2][5] In early 2009 it was investigated further by Nolan’s colleague, Roy Bayfield, who walked to the area...
'our war,' or, 'if the accident will.'
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 1.
Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. I said that to Harrison Starr, the movie-maker, one time, and he raised his eyebrows and inquired, “Is it an anti-war book?”
“You know what I say to people when I hear...
'DERIG,' or, 'A PUBLIC CONFESSION'
I pressed the razor to my cheek. I felt it rip the hairs roughly off my face. The patch of naked skin stung as the shower’s hot water ran over it.
I hadn’t been clean-shaven in a year and a half.
I don’t remember an exact moment when my ego started to spiral out of control. It’s always been a problem. Always speaking the loudest among my friends. Cutting off girlfriends...
“lie for a while with your ear against the earth
and you’ll hear your...”
– blood - the middle east.
it’s hard to be away from you. i haven’t admitted how hard it’s been. this year’s been something else, but i’m so, so glad i’ll get to see you soon. i plan on enjoying every second of our time together.
i love you.
“What’s that accent? Where are you from?”
“I’m...”
– Already Dead: A California Gothic. Dennis Johnson.
'a cross-linguistic definition for definite...
a definite article is an article that triggers presupposition.
(by the way, articles are words that combine with nouns to show the definiteness, volume or scope of a noun.)
“Dali’s ‘discovery’ of an anti-modern Manhattan has been...”
– Rem Koolhaas. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. p 224.
the best sentence in any linguistics paper ever. →
This is hardly surprising; there is a limited range of things which can be done with the penis, even in myth.
* “lexical prefixes and the bipartite stem construction in klamath” by scott delancey, international journal of american linguistics, (january 1999).
(via ragbag.)
Is it possible to disappear in surveillance... →