January 2011
Update on the identity of the looters at the... →
muralgirl:
archaeology:
There have been wildly varying accounts of who the looters/vandals actually were. Here is one report, from Egyptology News:
The German newsaper Der Tagesspiegel (thanks Homer) via Google Translate says that the director of the Egyptian Museum, Wafaa el-Saddik, has told one of their journalists that security guards and police officers were responsible for the looting...
Watchcarolynisms:
-selfishmachines:
:’(
Dammit why did I watch this just now? :’( Oh, Ellie.
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde (libraryland)
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“Para vivir no quiero
islas, palacios, torres.
¡Qué alegría más alta:
vivir en...”
– Pedro Salinas, La voz a ti debida, 1933
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the...”
– Friedrich Nietzche
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (via thechocolatebrigade)
The Most Isolated Man on the Planet →
krs10vray:
articlesofinterest:
kateoplis:
He’s an Indian, and Brazilian officials have concluded that he’s the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. They first became aware of his existence nearly 15 years ago and for a decade launched numerous expeditions to track him, to ensure his safety, and to try to establish peaceful contact with him. In 2007, with ranching and logging closing in...
“What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via -mendihotza)
“What you don’t feel, you will not grasp by art,
Unless it wells out of...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via thechocolatebrigade)
How to Overcome Fear--WikiHow →
'Hipster'--Cracked Topics →
Even though Glenn Beck's targeting of a City... →
“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of...”
– Carl Sagan (via thechocolatebrigade)
“He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title....”
– Gustave Flaubert (via imperialhotel)
“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via obsoletedesolate)
Sonnet XXXII
If love is chaste, if pity comes from heaven, If fortune, good or ill, is shared between Two equal loves, and if one wish can govern Two hearts, and nothing evil intervene:
If one soul joins two bodies fast for ever And if, on the same wings, these two can fly, And if one dart of love can pierce and sever The vital organs of both equally:
If both love one another with the same Passion, and if...
Sonnet XXV
‘Tell me, I beg, Love, if my eyes indeed See all the truth of beauty which I claim, Or if I have within me now the same Power to see all the beauty that I need?
You ought to know the answer since you came With her to break my peace, disturb my rest. I would not let the smallest sigh be lost For such a love, nor ask a lesser flame.’
‘The beauty that you see is truly hers, But as...
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic... →
soupsoup:
Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.
From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields”...
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Non Serviam →
El poeta dice a sus hermanos: «Hasta ahora no hemos hecho otra cosa que imitar al mundo en sus aspectos, no hemos creado nada. ¿Qué ha salido de nosotros que no estuviera antes parado ante nosotros, rodeando nuestros ojos, desafiando nuestros pies o nuestras manos?
sapiosexual (n.) — a person who is sexually...
krs10vray:
brianignacio:
(dara-misfit)
Mmm Nerdery <3
Mmmmmmm, oh the nerderyyyyy <3
“Bookstores”
– 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade
Fuck you, HuffPo. Seriously.
(via housingworksbookstore)
WORD.
(via therealestsocksinthegame)
D:
“Not become a douchebag.”
– KE$HA, telling host Ryan Seacrest her New Year’s resolution on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.
I’ve got nothing.
(via inothernews)
An excellent goal! I, too, hope not to become a douchebag.
Strange Phenomena of the Mind →
thechocolatebrigade:
Déjà Vu - the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but sometimes...
