December 2008
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Top 10 Most Annoying Americanisms →
onemoretimewithfeeling: brandonsadkins: livesophia: 1. “Happy Holidays!” Translation: “Merry Christmas but I realise you might be Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Bahai, something even more exotic, agnostic or Godless and I don’t want to offend you.” 2. “Have a nice day.” Translation: “I would like you to have a pleasant time today” or “I hate you” - or anything in between. 3. “You’re...
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Dec 30th
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thedailywhat: Time-Lapse Video of the Day: Eirik Solheim shot several photos out of the same window in his house for an entire year and pieced them together, resulting in the 40-second time capsule above. [via.] More time lapse. This is wonderful. And what an amazing view. I would love to do this but it would be 365 images of a scrap yard on a grey day! So I will spare you.
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“Do not allow evil into your heart. It will make a home there.”
– Hercule Poirot, in Death on the Nile (1978)
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Listenloveleeallie: Eisley~ The Winter Song I always...
Dec 27th
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Listenwhatson: homeofthevain: Kings of Convenience,...
Dec 27th
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Europeana is now live →
‘Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 2 million digital items. Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts’ (Via www.europeana.eu)
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Another time lapse video - Norwegian skies →
I can’t embed it for some reason but it’s stunning. I want to move there.
Dec 20th
Berlin Philharmonic to broadcast performances live... →
Not free but you can’t have everything (Via Guardian)
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New Franz Ferdinand album out in the UK on 26... →
Listen to extracts at their website (with added (?) atmospheric crackles.) (Via www.franzferdinand.co.uk)
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“Fuck 2008”
– My friend Abbi (via balltillifall) This is exactly how I feel. I think three good things happened in the entire year.
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“The courage of one’s convictions always seems to be a calculation and an...”
– Marcel Proust, The Way By Swann’s (À la recherche du temps perdu, vol 1)
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“Scotland, Alastair Reid It was a day peculiar to this piece of the planet,...”
– (via mygreenjumper)
Dec 13th
Lovely new coffee bar in Edinburgh →
Went to the Kitsch-in in Bernard Street for lunch today, delicious food and lovely staff, and the decor is fabulous…
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Listenscout: Favorites of 08 - Day 12 glasvegas -...
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“There was nothing, she had said, that she wanted, except to be young and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned (via balltillifall)
Dec 11th
“We are familiar only with the passions of others, and what we come to know about...”
– Marcel Proust, The Way By Swann’s (À la recherche du temps perdu, vol 1)
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“When Quiggin had married her, he had still taken pride in being an austere man -...”
– Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol 11)
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“Each time she saw in others an advantage, however small, that she did not have,...”
– Marcel Proust, The Way By Swann’s (A la recherche du temps perdu, vol 1)
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“Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade,...”
– Anthony Powell, Books Do Furnish A Room (A Dance to the Music of Time, vol 10)
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