"My heart in hiding / Stirred for a bird, -- the achieve of, the mastery of the thing"

[larryhammer]

And with this year's Nobel Prize winners announced, it's time to notice this year's IgNobel Prize Winners.

"What the hell kind of language has a one-syllable difference between "Gracious welcome to our honored guests" and "Your king ingests every possible secretion from all the mammals of our world"?" (via)

13 excellent infographics of the year. (kottke)

---L.

Subject quote from "The Windhover," Gerard Manly Hopkins.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Wait. Dung beetles orienting on the milky way is awesome.

[larryhammer]

There are, yes, projects that are more worthy of being dubbed "should not be reproduced."

---L.