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A great story that includes instant noodle currency in prison (and “prison burritos”), (three) instant noodle museums, the instant noodle “history cube,” ad the critic who has reviewed more than 6200 kinds of instant noodles in search of the elusive 5-star example. Among other things. → The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle
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Octopodes on Ecstacy. For real. And, yes, octopodes!
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October is Inktober, where artists around the world post a new drawing every day. Watch drawing as they are posted by following #inktober on Twitter and on Instagram. If you’re an artist, participation is easy, with a few simple rules and prompts.
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You want “new” words? Here you go. → An overview of how adding words to dictionaries happens && Merriam-Webster’s September 2018 additions && the Oxford English Dictionary additions, updated in June && While I’m at it, there are 300 new words in the Scrabble dictionary too.
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Tara Murtha’s article, “What She Hasn’t Got: An Apology For Sinéad O’Connor” is well written and full of truth.
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“In essence, the photocopier was not merely a vehicle for copying. It became a mechanism for sub-rosa publishing—a way of seizing the means of production, circulating ideas that would previously have been difficult to get past censors and editors.” → How the Photocopier Changed the Way We Worked—and Played
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Coming to Vancouver in November: (the world’s first?) “sex doll brothel.” But it’s about more than novelty…
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For the eyes: the evolution of Hokusai’s “Great Wave” && Rogan Brown’s astonishingly intricate, bacteria inspired paper sculptures
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Today is International Podcast Day, celebrating the power of this powerful, still under-appreciated media art form. For some solid recommendations, check out these lists: Bryan Alexander: Listening to in 2018 && WIRED: 27 of the best podcasts for curious minds in 2018 && Esquire: The 15 Best Podcasts of 2018 (So Far) && Vulture: Best Podcasts of 2018 (So Far). I’d love to hear what you are listening to.
The Chimp Who Believed She was Human
“A social experiment goes awry when a couple ► adopts a baby chimpanzee and raises her as their daughter.” An amazing story with multiple acts. Directed and animated by Elisa Chee.
Scooter Saga: City Council
I haven’t seen the other parts, but ► Scooter Saga: City Council, in which Chad and J.T. defend bird scooters, gave me a much needed laugh.
from Rings of Saturn (W. G. Sebald)
I suppose it is submerged memories that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theatre is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?
—W. G. Sebald
—from Rings of Saturn (1998)
exonym
exonym /EK-soh-nim/. noun. A place name or name given to a group of people by someone outside that place or group and not used by them. For instance, Germany is an exonym for Deutschland. Often exonyms are pejorative, or come to be so—or are perceived so by the named group—such as the Romani preferring that name to (the originally Egyptian) exonym Gypsy. See also: xenonym and ethnonym.
Some commonly used exonyms (by English speakers): Moscow for Москва/Moskva, Turkey for Türkiye, India for Bharat, Prague for Praha, Lapp for Saami, and Mecca for Makkha.
Links: September 23, 2018
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Just your typical “inmate creates detailed golf course drawings, sends them to Golf Digest, who investigates and ultimately assists in getting his murder conviction vacated…after 27 years served” story.
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I have to agree with Reader B., who shared this story about memory towns being built in strip malls to treat dementia and said, “What an idea…” && An earlier article about the intentions of the project.
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Why do great white sharks migrate, en masse, from California to what appears to be an “empty, oceanic Sahara desert?” To dine at the White Shark Café, of course.
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Relevant to me as I get ready to ghost the party that is my workplace next week → Is it the Irish Goodbye, the French Exit, or to Leave the “English Way”?
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What if it turns out that Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong?
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Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition
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I don’t have the book, but the faux-TV guide on the front page of NetGuide is good for some LOLs all by itself.
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The Love Poems of Japan’s Heian Court Were the Original Thirst Texts && A Modern History of Thirst && There’s a Problem with the Term “Thirsty” That We Don’t Talk About
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This week in Weird Wikipedia: The Mariko-Aoki Phenomenon describes a very specific set of bookstore browsers. && Runner up: Jenny Haniver, the name sounds so nice…
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Today in 1889, the Nintendo company is founded in Kyoto to produce Hanafuda cards (also known as Flower Cards). Along the way to becoming one of the largest video game companies in the world featuring Mario, Zelda and Pokémon on Game Boys and NES and Wii, the company dabbled in love hotels, taxi services, an instant rice company, and various other endeavors. The kanji phrase rendered as “Nintendo” has traditionally been translated as “leave luck to heaven” or “leave fate to heaven” but it might well (or also) mean “the temple of free hanafuda.” Whatever the case, let’s hope the company weathers the storm of recent comparisons involving Trump and the Mario mushrooms.
Porcelain Unicorn
► Porcelain Unicorn, Grand Prize winner of the Philips Parallel Lines ‘Tell It Your Way’ international competition.
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