A Momentary Taste of Being

Sorry, fell in love with the History teachers-- To the tune of "Because"--Copernicus And Then There's Aquinas inappropriately enough to Bananarama's "Venus" Oh, and I won't embed--but can we resist Beowulf to 99 Luftballoons?

Booklusting

A Totoro Jack 'o Lantern Stencil--charming

Happy Hallowe'en Links

Five Minutes of Zen

I must admit to being fascinated by the whole question of Roswell and its "cover-up"

"White Knuckles"  an interesting and complexly choreographed video

Octopods are amongst my favorite invertebrates--the mimic octopus

But those who don't already know about it-- Pandora Radio is a fascinating project Go, create your own music station.  It accommodates not only those who would input The Beatles, but also weirdos who put in Gyorgy Ligeti, Bill Nelson, and Brad Paisley to make up one station.  (I will discretely refuse to name names.)

Tea at Trianon, quoting others, but enunciating principles that she has well demonstrated, asks us to consider the importance of kind words in an unkind world.   I hold with her principles so closely that I'm considered something of a misfit--for example, I also hold that a salutation in an e-mail as well as a valedictory is a way of recognizing and honoring the person with whom you are communicating.  I know in business it is an unfashionable idea to consider that a person is deserving of respect, after all we have phrases that range from "resources" to "commodities" to "human capital" to describe those with whom we work; however, if we take just a moment to recognize that when we write, we write to a person--a person who, by virtue only of being a person, is deserving of our respect whether or not that person has chosen to show the same, we are making the world a better place by a small margin.  And all of that selvage eventually adds up to real cap...

Gives new meaning to Book Room Via Books Inq.

Reading this note about a career plagiarist, the term in the title came to mind.  Sorry, I just have odd interests.

It takes a while to load, but this from a department store (I think) in the Netherlands is a neat little Rube Goldberg page.

Hemingway Look-Alike--worth it just for the photo

Unaccountably, this post on blackberries put me in mind of my first foray into the land of Finnegans Wake during which time I composed the following bon mot and felt something like Little Jack Horner--it was the first time I had composed a pun in a language other than my own. Les mûrs mûres murmurent sur la mûr mur. In fact, the phrase, particularly the latter part can be read in a number of different ways--worn wall, or, my preferred given that it was Wakeian, drunken (plastered) wall.

All you wanted to know and more about Tea.   (via UD)

The perfect infusion of the luddite into the modern--see the typewriter extension for the iPad. I should have noted that this looks like a machine out of Burroughs's Naked Lunch via David Cronenberg.

The Annual Tea-Steeping Championships! The scoop from World Tea News (same info, different venue, for all you tea enthusiasts). Personally it's the Gunpowder green and the Jamine White Dragon Pearls that always trip me up.

Reading what our inner (or outer) teenager bought Who doesn't love a super-low-price booksale?  You can risk a quarter on any sort of literary nonsense--who knows what will turn up?

Images from the Codex Seraphinianus and a longer article referenced in the above: The Codex Seraphinianus