December 2010
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More works of art inspired by China Mieville's...
via Super Punch:
Raise the Avanc!
The wonderful floating pirate city of Armada, the setting of The Scar:
An artistic poster for Armada:
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Back to the old Lutheran church on Lake Superior last Sunday to see my niece be baptized. I hadn’t been in years and made sure I looked my best, freshly shaven, beard perfectly trimmed, beautiful red plaid tie which Timothy bought for me perfectly paired with a crisp white Oxford shirt and subdued gray pants.
It was a still, freezing morning, and the tiny church sat where it always had and...
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Lightbox
Every morning in the fall and winter and early spring I sit beside a lightbox for twenty minutes and drink coffee. Just now the timer dinged and I turned off the light. I sat there for a few seconds, and then turned it back on.
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Minneapolis
This week I’ve felt a sinister pall settle over the city, and I wonder if anyone else has felt it.
The snow was lovely over the weekend. We stayed in and baked cookies, napped, made love…or else we headed out into the calm stillness and helped our neighbors out from snowdrifts.
But now that same blanket of snow has come to feel suffocating.
There’s a claustrophobia settling...
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No Native Word for Blue
“The Egyptian and Murray Island records for blue are not exactly comparable in one respect. The Murray Islanders had no native word for blue, but they had adopted the English word in the form of bulubulu, and most of the natives used this word consistently for blue. These people had a word which they used definitely and consistently for blue, and therefore one had every reason to believe...
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“Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant...”
– Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says
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