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A study in bacterial microculture
And its macroeconomic consequences
considerably more so (comets) 
30th-May-2012 04:00 am - Budget News

http://xkcd.com/1062/

I will vote, no questions asked, for any candidate who describes themselves as \more of a deficit sugar glider.\""
30th-May-2012 04:00 am - May 30, 2012:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:POTD/2012-05-30

http://blog.drawn.ca/post/24006131552



Have we posted this before? Maybe, but it’s worth watching again: John Cleese’s wonderful talk on creativity (circa 1991 (?), and found on the Google+ profile of The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan). It’s about a half-hour long, but you can play it in the background. 

29th-May-2012 11:06 am - A Softer World

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=820


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“I first became aware of Margaret Wise Brown’s work a few years after graduation, while browsing in a New York bookshop where copies of Goodnight Moon were stacked high on a table. As I read the book for the first time, unaware of the author’s legendary status within her field (or indeed anything about her) I was forcibly struck by the realization that the quietly compelling words I was saying over in my head were poetry and, what was more, poetry of a kind I prized: accessible but not predictable, emotional but purged of sentiment, vivid but so spare that every word felt necessary. Her words seemed to be rooted in the concrete but touched by an appreciation of the elusive, the paradoxical, the mysterious. There was astonishing tenderness and authority in the voice, and something mythic in it as well. It was as though the author had just now seen the world for the first time, and had chosen to honor it by taking its true measure in words.”

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Leonard S. Marcus, writing about Margaret Wise Brown, from the introduction to his biography on the Goodnight Moon author, Awakened by the Moon

If there’s a better definition for the quality of writing that makes a picture book great, I’d like to hear it.

(via BookLust)

29th-May-2012 08:52 am - If Ya Can't Beat 'Em...
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29th-May-2012 04:25 am - Keep Calm and Carrie On

http://catandgirl.com/?p=3697

Comic

29th-May-2012 04:46 am - May 29, 2012:

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28th-May-2012 11:57 am - A Softer World

http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=819


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Dave Cooper + Adventure Time is a match made in heaven.

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