January 2010
56 posts
“houaiche s. f.
1. Terme de marine. Trace bouillonnante que le navire laisse...”
– Dictionnaires d’autrefois: Public Version
“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his...”
– The Footnotes of Mad Men.
“email apnea n.
The unconscious and temporary suspension of regular breathing...”
– Word Spy - email apnea
Super Nanny, la star des thèmes d’actualité de... →
Un sujet franco-français se retrouvant dans le top 10 des «trending topics» de Twitter, c’est une première. Et c’est d’autant plus remarquable que, sur les 40 millions d’utilisateurs dans le monde que compte Twitter, seuls 25.000 sont français. Selon un rapport publié le 14 janvier, l’Hexagone ne constitue que 0,98% de la communauté de Twitter, quand les Etats-Unis y participent à hauteur...
“This is the difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense.”
– Wilhelm Wexler
(via claytoncubitt) (via bigfun) (via tartanspartan)
“Tell the readers a story! Without a story, you are merely using words to prove...”
– Anne McCaffrey (via kendalllouise) (via libraryland)
libraryland:
“NIETZSCHE’S
ANGEL FOOD CAKE.
by Rebecca Coffey - - - - 1. Allow the angel to reach room temperature. Then kill it. 2. Kill God. Set Him aside. 3. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. 4. Ecstatically whip, as if possessed by a storm-wind of freedom, 1-1/2 cups of excellent egg whites with 1/4 tsp. salt and 1-1/2 tsp. cream of tartar. Continue until peaks are as if raised to their own...
“I regarded Paris, with its gray-toned days and charcoal nights, merely as the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via travelhighlights)
“Dans tout plaisir il y a réflexion et il faut espérer que dans toute réflexion...”
– Eric Rohmer (1920 - 2010) - Ruines circulaires
Book Review - 'What I Talk About When I Talk About... →
To characterize it as briefly as possible: easy on ear and mind alike, it’s the type of prose I would call sort of pretty poor. Running is “sort of a vague theme” (i.e., not just vague but vaguely vague), and the book is “a kind of memoir.” Murakami sort of likes this kind of thing, not just as an indistinct modifier but as a form of category-definition. He’s the “type of person,” “kind of person”...
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via lettieisthegreat) (via fuckyeahthoreau)
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textually.org: 28% of Road crashes involve cell... →
“The best defenses against terrorism are largely invisible: investigation,...”
– “Is aviation security mostly for show?” par Bruce Scheier sur CNN.com (December 29th, 2009) (via c0wb0yz)
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in...”
– Winston Churchill (via theimpossiblecool)
“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of...”
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