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I missed Pharyngula's picture of planktonic octopus paralarva from last Friday. It's not cat-blogging, but it sure is pretty.
Mali's proto-bluesman dead at 66. I loved his guitar, true—but I really loved his phrasing as a singer. If you haven't heard his duet with kora-player Toumani Duabaté, you're missing one of the great records of this century.
On the streets today, people seem so smart and full of Spring. Though the temperature has dropped ten degrees from its high, the sun is still shining. It's 32 degrees and sunny in New York City.
I love the word "still," by the way. I have to tell you. It means so much more than its five letters.
On the train this morning, I read.
Elizabeth Costello is giving a lecture on animals now. She refers to Kafka's story about an ape, Red Peter, that is captured and brought into civilization. To avoid "life" in a zoo, the ape, Red Peter, decides to become human. He, the ape…
David Bragin sent these alternate meanings to existing words. I Googled them and found they're two years old—although they still seem fresh'n'tasty to me.
I like "willy-nilly."
"At the rager the chicks come and go
Talking about art or something, I don’t know."
Talking about art or something, I don’t know."
Heuristics—and Dan Goldstein—say not necessarily. A more pop-culturish explanation is presented on Goldstein's blog, where he shouts out to an excellent Malcolm Gladwell interview on ESPN.
There, now you have an entire morning's work-avoidance strategy.
Neil Gaiman's lovely little fairy tale is going to be a movie. This could be good news, since Stardust has a deliberately simple storyline, unlike most of Gaiman's oeuvre and offers the best chance of a straight movie adaptation.
>As always, when Hollywood turns its gimlet eyes on a favorite work, I'm worried that it won't get it—so discover Stardust now before it gets the star treatment and then hope for the best.
When I worked as a corporate speechwriter, my hardest job was weaning people off of their PP dependency and getting them to tell me what they did in conversational rhythms rather than bullet points. The people who downloaded the most data in pre-speechwriting interviews and delivered the best speeches at the events were the ones who'd never used that "gateway" program.
Besides, as far as I'm concerned Edward R. Tufte is a god. Read his books, if you haven't already.