7/7/09

Funemployed

“Jean Twenge, co-author of “The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement,” said in some cases, many employees had lost balance between work and life, with too many late nights and weekends spent at the office. When they stop working, they realize how much they had given up.”
from For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome at Los Angeles Times
(via Schott’s Vocab)

6/12/09

Government Motors



from GM Retardation
see also Let Them All Fail

6/6/09

Perfect

How to Be Happy
from Bud Caddell at What Consumes Me
see also the German rendition at Netzlogbuch

6/3/09

WW Stands for Wonder Woman

I wish I did something more meaningful...

Wonder Woman

from Facebook

Sam Potts Makes It Real

Sam Potts is a Tweeter
from Twitter on Paper

5/28/09

People May Be Able to Taste Words

“Which one of these shapes is ‘bouba’ and which one is ‘kiki’?”

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“The vast majority of people choose kiki for the orange angular shape and bouba for the purple rounded shape.”
“We are all capable of ‘hearing’ shapes and sizes and perhaps even ‘tasting’ sounds, according to researchers. This blending of sensory experiences, or synaesthesia, they say, influences our perception and helps us make sense of a jumble of simultaneous sensations.”


from BBC News

5/20/09

Over the Wall

11bump

“Conrad Schumann, a 19-year-old soldier in the East German army, was standing guard on the corner of Ruppiner Strasse and Bernauer Strasse. He was taunted and insulted by passers-by from the West and, on a whim, started running and hurdled the barbed wire into the West, thus becoming the subject of one of the most dramatic photographs of the time.”
by Christoph Niemann

Visit Niemann’s blog to see the rest of his work—it’s wonderful.


from Abstract City Blog on The New York Times

 


5/7/09

A Day for Mom

My beautiful wife makes beautiful cakes (and takes beautiful pictures of them).
piece of cake
from The Able Baker