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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius I just took a look at CNN’s site and it was, as usual, boasting its favorite palette of troublesome nouns and verbs.
Six Amazing Songs That Illustrate What it Means to Be Human | Raptitude.com
Funwari Milk-chan: Breast-shaped plushies ~ Pink Tentacle
From character goods maker JUN Planning comes a series of mammary-shaped plush toys known as Funwari Milk-chan ("Fluffy Milk") and friends. According to the official Funwari Milk-chan website , these mildly naughty plushies are modeled after the palm-sized inhabitants of Milk Village, a quiet southern hamlet the size of Tokyo Dome. Each character has a distinct personality and background.03/ Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Little Paper Planes: 20 Artists Reinvent the Childhood Classic The little corners of Miss Modish’s (aka Jena Coray’s) abode. We bought our modest little 667sf house about two years ago, and although there’s still many projects to tackle, we’ve had so much fun painting it crazy colors and doing whatever we want for the first time! My main decorating tools are thrift store finds, art, plants and cats. And light. I love the way the light pours into this home, and these spots are some of my favorite places to soak it up!
Design Crush
Oh hey. I’ve been tremendously busy and important. Okay fine – busy but not important.
No Ordinary Rollercoaster — Just Gay Enough
This week officially ushered in Spring. In the New York area, forsythia, snowdrops and willows are hinting at revealing themselves soon. Until Spring’s fervent arrival, I have Stephen Orr’s new book, Tomorrow’s Garden , to rely on for inspiration of “what could be”. I first got to genuinely know Stephen, the gardening editorial director for Martha Stewart Living magazine, through music. On his garden blog, whatweretheskieslike , Stephen, will seasonally post his play lists . I listen while working and while looking at the site’s wonderful photography and varied posts about such subjects as mushroom hunts, Sissinghurst Castle and small nepenthes.
Dialog with Paulette Pascarella
Plot Jewelry turns raw data into wearable art. The pendants feature fluctuations in price of commodities trading like gold, silver and lead. A graph is embedded in clear acrylic.
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Miss Haviland: Is there any point that you would like to make, aside from the questions that have been brought up to you before and which you’ve answered again tonight? Mr. Sendak: I love my work very much, it means everything to me.
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Since The Hunger Games was released to the world over the weekend, I've seen and heard a few people – mostly folks who haven't read the books yet - ask why it's called the Hunger Games. Why Hunger and not just Games of Death? One person assumed the movie featured people starving, and it's a fair guess. As someone who's read the books and proclaimed their amazing-ness to the world, I was turned to for answers by a couple of those people. And I realized there's not a straightforward one. I can't recall any specific point in the books when anyone explained why the death match was specifically called The Hunger Games.
Detail from a photograph of World War I cryptographers trained by William and Elizebeth Friedman, Aurora, Illinois, early 1918. By facing either forward or sideways, the soldiers formed a coded phrase utilizing Francis Bacon’s biliteral cipher. The intended message was the Baconian motto “Knowledge is power,” but there were insufficient people to complete the r (and the w was compromised by one soldier looking the wrong way). Included as a pull-out poster in issue 40, Knowledge Is Powe is also available for purchase in an unfolded version suitable for framing. To see a large version of the full photograph, go here .
CABINET // How to Make Anything Signify Anything
What a 'Liberal Media' Might Look Like
Editor’s Note: For decades now, the American Right has pushed the myth that the national U.S. news media is “liberal,” even though the owners are mostly wealthy corporations run by rich executives who generally favor Republicans over Democrats. And that was true even in the days before Fox News and right-wing-dominated talk radio. Even the limited inroads of liberalism in media have been under pressure in recent days with MSNBC’s ouster of liberal icon Keith Olbermann and AOL’s purchase of HuffingtonPost (raising new questions about Arianna Huffington’s ideological sojourns ). However, in this essay, Lisa Pease contrasts what today’s media is versus what a “liberal media” might look like: I’m surprised that otherwise intelligent people continue to believe the myth that the media is “liberal.”