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how democracy has worked in Mali. via A&L Daily
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Pukka is a minimalist posting client for del.icio.us.
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‘owl’ pellets, really, rather than ‘vomit’. via Urban Pantheist
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via Corvus
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via Coudal
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improvised prison knives
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via Coudal
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the myth of the underappreciated great artist
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via The Page
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Simic on Dada: ‘The performers behaved like new recruits simulating mental illness before a medical commission. […] “What we are celebrating,” Ball wrote in his diary, “is both buffoonery and a requiem mass.”‘
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Andrew Motion reviews a new Donne biography. via The Page
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an amusing thing on OiNY
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A hell of an insect.
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I always thought the tarantula hawk had a very depressingly Sisyphean existence: go, fly around, find a tarantula, kill eat, eat it, rest, repeat. I was told it has to find and kill at least one tarantula a day, but I’m not sure I believe this. I had no idea it was a sort of wasp, and I’m glad I didn’t. Flying, they look a bit like hummingbirds — not at all scary, and quite beautiful, with the buzzing orange wings and the black body.
I think insects generally do have rather limited lifestyles.
We don’t have anything like them here. Mind you, we don’t have any tarantulae either.