Clippings

Georgina Klitgaard: Winter Afternoon, 1934 (via Smithsonian...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:21:17 -0600

Georgina Klitgaard: Winter Afternoon, 1934 (via Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:43:43 -0600

by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker’s
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault’s with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word’s fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

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"Reach for the stars. Start with the spring rolls."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:47:35 -0600

“Reach for the stars. Start with the spring rolls.”

- Tonight’s fortune cookie

"The greater part of those who have written their memoirs have only shown us their bad actions or..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:49:25 -0600

“The greater part of those who have written their memoirs have only shown us their bad actions or their weaknesses when they happen to have mistaken them for deeds of prowess or fine instincts, a thing they often do.”

- Tocqueville

“boy sees lobster for the first time” (via youtube)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:46:27 -0600

“boy sees lobster for the first time” (via youtube)

From an actual recipe book called Let’s Serve Something...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:10:52 -0600

From an actual recipe book called Let’s Serve Something New. 53 Selected Recipes for the use of Liver, Heart, Kidney, Sweetbreads, Tongue and other Meat Specialties (via Ptak Science Books)

The sound and video are a little unsynchronized, but I love this...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:19:10 -0600

The sound and video are a little unsynchronized, but I love this performance.

Poster Display of a War Poster, “Don’t Talk”...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:17:50 -0600

Poster Display of a War Poster, “Don’t Talk” (via The U.S. National Archives)

Fondren Library, 60th Anniversary

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:13:14 -0600

Fondren Library, 60th Anniversary:

Neat site offering retrospective look at the Rice University library

How To Write Badly Well

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:03:11 -0500

How To Write Badly Well

"What I actually want to say is, yippee!"

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:44:28 -0500

“What I actually want to say is, yippee!”

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on news of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, as quoted by LeeAnna Keith

Mississippi Fred McDowell - John Henry (via YouTube)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:11:54 -0500

Mississippi Fred McDowell - John Henry (via YouTube)

Early photographically illustrated books

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:01:35 -0500

Early photographically illustrated books:

Nearly 1,500 nineteenth-century photographs in an Online Gallery at the British Library.

Image of ‘John Henry’s Hand’ by Fred...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:50:53 -0500

Image of ‘John Henry’s Hand’ by Fred Becker.

Fred Becker (Born: Oakland, California 1913 Died: Amherst, Massachusetts 2004)

wood engraving image: 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. (15.4 x 11.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum

(via Smithsonian American Art)

Some of the jauntiest Civil War soldiers I’ve ever seen in...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:59:54 -0500

Some of the jauntiest Civil War soldiers I’ve ever seen in a Matthew Brady photograph (via The U.S. National Archives)

"Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to..."

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:49:53 -0500

“Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.”

- Flannery O’Connor, quoted by Paul Elie

NYHS Map Rectifier

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:36:57 -0500

NYHS Map Rectifier:

Overlay historical and present-day maps of New York City

A Regular Writing Routine

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:08:30 -0500

A Regular Writing Routine:

Some good advice from Peg Boyle Single at Inside Higher Ed about creating regular writing routines and resisting “Myth #1: Writing can only occur in large blocks of time.”

“The Contiguous United States Visualized by Distance to...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:53:53 -0500

“The Contiguous United States Visualized by Distance to the nearest McDonald’s”

(via www.weathersealed.com, via NY Times Idea Blog)

originalface: seedingtheclouds: skttrbrain01: (via...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:20:17 -0500

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seedingtheclouds:

skttrbrain01: (via thingsgohazy)