Things that fascinate me: Archive

May 3rd

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Fruity Cube, you complete me. →

Kinkless Desktop Leopard icons.

Apr 1st

Space stasis: What the strange persistence of... →

How playing with gunpowder in China, plus a couple of far fetched coincidences, allow us to send SMSes. Fascinating read. (via Instapaper)

Feb 10th

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“Ah! I wish I had never seen you!” cried d’Artagnan, with that...”

Jan 10th

Gregory of Tours' declaration of faith

I stumbled upon Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks while reading The Inheritance of Rome, and find his opening declaration of faith fascinating. Some background is necessary, but I won’t go into that too much right now. Suffice it to say that at the time he was writing two of the main thoughts of Christianity were Catholicism (in the west) and Arianism (in the east), and their main point of...

Nov 19th

Nov 15th

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“Since Dutch traders had been coming to Japan for centuries, a number of educated...”

– Return of the Samurai. From the great Disunion series from the New York Times.

Nov 15th

Oct 23rd

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Oct 16th

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Oct 1st

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Aug 27th

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Aug 24th

“Exactly what is a “safe distance” to put a Mosque away from a place...”

– Overcompensating

Aug 16th

Aug 4th

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Aug 3rd

Learn to sound like an Icelander →

Focusing on those weird unexpected sounds that come out where “l” is supposed to be in words like “Eyjafjallajökull”. However, I like this caveat: “something else is going on here” […] seems to be a sentiment frequently encountered in examining Icelandic phonetics.

Aug 3rd

A localisation horror story →

Aug 3rd

Feb 23rd

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Some years ago I was in Ibiza for two weeks. That’s about 13 days too many. Anyway, one night I woke up to the Brits downstairs coming come and at least one of them fell asleep on the terrace. But not before turning on the radio and playing My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion first. I somehow managed to fall asleep before the song finished, but woke up to the final notes, about two hours...

Feb 9th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →

Feb 9th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) →

Feb 2nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →

Jan 26th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →

Jan 19th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →

Jan 11th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →

Duke Ellington (11) Muse (6) Interpol (4) Sigur Rós (4) Blur (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jan 4th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →

Sufjan Stevens (15) Kósý (13) The Beatles (13) Radiohead (11) Pink Floyd (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 29th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →

Jagúar (34) Muse (19) Baggalútur (18) Sufjan Stevens (15) Miles Davis (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →

Radiohead (7) Stephen Fry (7) Coldplay (6) Muse (5) The Beatles (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 15th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →

Duke Ellington (17) Pink Floyd (13) Jagúar (11) The Beatles (8) Sigur Rós (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 9th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →

Jagúar (30) Miles Davis (18) The Beatles (16) Interpol (13) Charles Mingus (13) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 1st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →

Trabant (25) The Beatles (5) Megas (4) Madness (3) Muse (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 26th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →

Jóel Pálsson (9) Klára Würtz (9) Radiohead (8) The White Stripes (6) Wilhelm Kempff (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 18th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →

Wilhelm Kempff (35) Megas (21) TYFT (4) De Mens (1) Kings of Convenience (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 9th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →

Muse (18) Led Zeppelin (15) The Beatles (11) The White Stripes (10) Django Reinhardt (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 2nd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →

Django Reinhardt (40) The Beatles (10) Muse (7) The White Stripes (7) Pink Floyd (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 26th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →

Tom Waits (19) Interpol (7) Led Zeppelin (5) Mugison (4) Cake (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 19th

Oct 12th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →

Tom Waits (19) Hjálmar (10) The White Stripes (6) Radiohead (6) Interpol (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 5th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →

Tom Waits (68) Lou Reed (14) Muse (11) Herbie Hancock (9) The Beatles (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 29th

Sep 28th

Sep 25th

Damn, they got me.

Got this from a yahoo.com.hk address As you are aware of the activities of terrorist attacked at our airport,during our daily routine on 100% inspection of incoming and our going flights, we arrested a man with a consignment that claiming to be yourpartner, after we scan thetrunk box, we discovered the trunk box contain liquid cash in [US] Note and other documents attached to the consignmentdid...

Sep 23rd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →

Muse (16) Jónsi & Alex (8) Placebo (5) Kaizers Orchestra (5) Interpol (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 21st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6) →

Sigur Rós (4) Miles Davis (2) Emilíana Torrini (2) Bryan Ferry (1) Kent (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 7th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →

Radiohead (5) Interpol (4) The Beatles (4) Pink Floyd (4) Badly Drawn Boy (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 31st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →

Radiohead (30) Kiss My Jazz (20) Pink Floyd (10) The Beatles (10) Miles Davis (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Aug 24th

“Injured Hooker defies pain to claim gold”

– (The article isn’t nearly as interesting as the headline, of course.)

Aug 23rd

Aug 21st

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Aug 21st