September 2009
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American Girl releases new homeless doll →
It’s a joke, right? Actually, it’s not. This comment says it best:
“It seems they have parodied themselves! Great Saturday Night Live skit!”
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How to add an extension to a phone number in... →
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“… the placebo response is highly sensitive to cultural differences....”
– Placebos Are Getting More Effective, WIRED Magazine
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“The hand of man generally improves a landscape. The earth has been given to him,...”
– Susan Fenimore Cooper, 1851
This is a more complete quotation, found after some research. I did think that the original half-quote—when set next to paintings of ancient cliffs and evergreens, hung inside an institution of glass, concrete, and what have you—was a bit ironic. It’s much...
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“The hand of man generally improves a landscape. The earth has been given to him,...”
– Susan Fenimore Cooper, 1851
I’m going through my notes from my SAM visit. I jotted this down while looking at paintings of the Pacific Northwest (from a time when going there was considered a daunting exploration).
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[Answered] I'm crowdsourcing this one...
There is a Japanese artist who makes fairly large sculptures of mushroom/fungus forms in red and white. The forms are more shaped like bowling pins than mushrooms. The pattern is usually white spots on red, but I have seen the reverse with red spots on white. The size ranges from about 10 feet tall to maybe a foot? I think the artist is a woman, but I’m not certain at all. I believe s/he had...
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Coco and Jean Paul Gaultier
From Vogue:
Coco has been known to entertain the other models on photo shoots, who often goad her into dancing for them. Word got out that she could “Riverdance,” and Jean Paul Gaultier, whose fall collection was inspired by the Scottish Highlands, sent Coco down the runway to open his show in a red jacket, tartan kilt, and a big plume of feathers in her hair, doing a rousing, stomping...
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No pictures
Because the day I leave my phone at home is the day I run into two really interesting things while out and about. More later. Maybe.
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