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‘the 49th edition of I and the Bird, the carnival for bloggers who love birds… And with a little bit of editing, the English language naturally resolves into a rough iambic pentameter…’
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It’s not that I want the football commentators to try and sell every game as a classic even when it clearly isn’t. I appreciate their willingness to be honest about their product. But having bloody Lawro gloomily commenting about how bad the game is every 30 seconds for the whole bloody match really doesn’t add to its value as a piece of entertainment. It’s like watching football with Eeyore sitting on your shoulder.
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via A&LD: ‘The owner of Napoleon’s penis died last Thursday in Englewood […] also possessed Lincoln’s blood-stained collar and Hermann Göring’s cyanide ampoule.’
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via A&LD: ‘If we really want to understand the impact of religious nationalism on democratic values, India currently provides a deeply troubling example, and one without which any understanding of the more general phenomenon is dangerously incomplete.’
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‘The Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema’
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‘A house sitting at an angle to the directions of the compass disturbs the delicate equilibrium of the Midwestern mind.’
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via Coudal: ‘Plagiarism is also a hallmark of tiki culture.’
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Cognitive dissonance at the cricket
The first international cricket match of the season started on Thursday; the F.A. Cup final is tomorrow. Which must make it the official start of summer.
I was watching the cricket on TV today and of all people, there was Kirsten Dunst, at Lord’s, drinking a cup of tea and watching England’s middle order knocking the West Indies bowling attack all round the park.
Presumably she was there in her capacity as girlfriend of Johnny Razorlight, but you have to wonder what she made of it all. I mean I like cricket and have been watching it for years, and I still find it somewhat slow. Perhaps Johnny filled some time by explaining LBW to her.
The cheerful-looking bloke I’ve edited into the picture above is Dan Lockyer, wicketkeeper for Glasgow University Staff Cricket Club. All I know about him is that Google found him for me when I was looking for wicketkeeper pictures.
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‘Each of these objects is an agate cabochon, the letters appearing on them formed by the combination of natural iron fractures and a very skilled lapidary artist. The most commonly revealed pattern is a simple cross but occasionally letters are found.’
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via Coudal: “In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread.”
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‘PingMag is recommending to check out Tenugui – Japanese hand towels. For today, PingMag would like to introduce a variety of these stylish and modern Tenugui.’
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‘A sensor chip controlled not by wires and transistors, but by a living slime mould marks an important step towards more widespread use of biologically-driven components and devices, researchers say.’
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the 5th edition of Oekologie, the ‘sphere’s only blog carnival focusing on ecology and environmental science.’
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via Oekologie: ‘Although the fossil is amazing in of itself, paleontology should not be relegated to mere “stamp collecting”; we need to understand the ecology in which Archaeopteryx found itself if we’re to fully understand its significance.’