February 2012
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January 2012
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A Short History of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Pop... →
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Faustus: Lucifer and Mephistopheles. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning. All: God forbid! Faustus: God forbade it indeed, but Faustus hath done it.
— Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.
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He was an odd man though, Babbage, and he does rather live up to the idea of an early computer nerd. Tennyson wrote a poem which included the line: “Every moment dies a man/Every moment one is born.” And he wrote back, [as Babbage] “If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would...
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“With Python we sort of had enough money to live reasonably comfortably....”
– —Terry Gilliam
December 2011
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Mike the Headless Chicken →
November 2011
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“I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning than happiness.”
— Georgia O’Keeffe
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British Library Virtual Books →
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l used the exact phrase straight out of the novel [Le Feu Follet by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle]: ”l’m killing myself because you didn’t Iove me, because l didn’t love you.” l find that admirable because the most important part is ”because l didn’t love you.” lt was ultimately the story of a man who was incapable of loving. He was a ladies’ man....
October 2011
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Your alarm clock goes off, you do not stir, you remain in your bed, you close your eyes again. It is not a premeditated action, or rather it’s not an action at all, but an absence of action, an action that you don’t perform, actions that you avoid performing. You went to bed early, you slept peacefully, you had set the alarm clock, you heard it go off, you waited for it to go off, for...
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Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language →
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“What the study demonstrates is that the variability in bilingual babies’ experience keeps them open,” said Dr. Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington and one of the authors of the study. “They do not show the perceptual narrowing as soon as monolingual babies do. It’s another piece of evidence that what you...
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Arto Lindsay - Simply Are
I do love your lack of...
September 2011
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Sinice Tosh -Intro
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August 2011
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“Penguins, yes, penguins. What relevance do penguins have to the furtherance of...”
– From Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Season 3, Episode 12).