March 2012
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““There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm...”
– “Vincent van Gogh: Lullaby in Color” by Joel L. Swerdlow, National Geographic, October 1997, vol. 192, no. 4
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February 2012
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Enthusiasms: GIF: A Technical History →
dailymeh:
From a technical standpoint, the success of the lowly GIF is a mystery. Both as an image format and as a video/animation format, it’s vastly inferior to the alternatives. It only supports 256 colors; its compression is inefficient; it doesn’t support sound; the last specification was published…
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Golden Eye
lareviewofbooks:
ROSS ANDERSEN on the James Webb Space Telescope. Image courtesy of NASA
And in the chill of deep space, freed from the distorting shimmer of the atmosphere, an infrared telescope can see nearly all of time. Read More
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Girl Scout Cookie Rank!!!
1. Samoas
2. Lemonades
3. Thin Mints
4. Tagalongs
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squeela:
an evocative line drawing of waking up with a champagne hangover after Anthony Haden Guest’s party to transcribe tape and realizing that I spent five minutes extolling the health virtues of Vitamin C to an art critic
some guys have all the luck.
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““I know that, since the light has to travel a vast distance, it will...”
– The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder That Didn’t Exist When We Saw It
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“In a New York Review of Books article, Thomas R. Edwards describes [Raymond] Carver’s fictional world as a place where “people worry about whether their old cars will start, where unemployment or personal bankruptcy are present dangers, where a good time consists of smoking pot with the neighbors.”
[Poetry Foundation]
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“There are two things that are infinite: femininity and means to take advantage...”
– Amande to NIkita
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youthberry:
John Coltrane- Naima
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