Whittle It a Little, It’ll Fit

Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”

Futility Closet » “Non Cogitant, Ergo Non Sunt”

Wednesday 28 February 19:46:23 UTC 2024

Aphorisms of 18th-century German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.” “To read means to borrow; to create out of one’s readings is paying off one’s debts.” “How close may our thoughts come at times to grazing on a great discovery?” “I would often rather read what a … [Link]

GraphJam » That's Hella Cool Bro

Wednesday 28 February 15:29:52 UTC 2024

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Weird Universe » The Rival Miss Fairmonts

Wednesday 28 February 10:15:00 UTC 2024

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Weird Universe » Forehand Guns

Wednesday 28 February 9:20:28 UTC 2024

The choice of dog killers and stagecoach robbers.

Recreation magazine – Aug 1899

Recreation magazine – Dec 1899 [Link]

Futility Closet » The Hollow Face Illusion

Wednesday 28 February 7:48:17 UTC 2024

The concave side of a mask can produce the strong impression of a normal convex face. Our bias toward seeing faces as convex is so strong that we’ll favor this impression despite available cues that the object is hollow. The same principle underlies this mistrustful dragon. [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons