September 2011
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“I would prefer not to.”
—Bartleby, the Scrivner.
The Pirate and the Penpal
Lifter Puller
my favorite lifter puller song, hands-down.
“He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding, and he thought, the birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”
—The Old Man and the Sea
astronomers discover planet made of diamond →
reuters.com
The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
seophoria
n. the satisfaction of lists, a series of bullet points being fired into the air as if to celebrate victory against the complexity of a universe that bombards us with five exabytes of data that would paralyze us if we didn’t connect random dots into constellations of dippers, hunters, and sexy ways to please your man.
The Frenemy: The Crazy Bitch Dating Manifesto →
the-frenemy.com
i’ve read this to myself so many times it’s almost embarrassing. and i’m also embarrassed to be admitting this. now i’m just embarrassed all around.
