February 2010
33 posts
Shadow People →
This is insane - this woman creates shadows of people by placing things like refrigerator magnet letters and other materials at the right angle, and then hitting them with light from the right direction.
13 Words Not Found In the English Language →
1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods 2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time 3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins) 4. Litost (Czech): a state of torment...
Philosophical Musings
Y’know those things -videos, or whatever - that show a tree or something, and then zoom out to the street, the neighborhood, the city, the state, the country, the world, the solar system, the galaxy, and further?
The thing is - people always say ‘It was depressing; it made me feel so insignificant!’. I never got that, because isn’t it exciting to be a part of something so big? To know the world...
Word Puns
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners: 1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. 2. Ignoranus : A person who’s both stupid and...
Sky Scraper
by Carl Sandburg
By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the city, pour people into it and they mingle among its twenty floors and are poured out again back to the streets, prairies and valleys. It is the men and women, boys and girls so poured in and out all day that give the building a soul of dreams and thoughts and...
