January 2009
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via kari-shma)
on language
homecoming:
deadshot: firebloom: frsh2dth: spaceships: filigree:
”The researchers asked German and Spanish native speakers to think of adjectives to describe a range of objects, such as a key. The German speakers, for whom the word “key” is masculine, gave adjectives such as “hard,” “heavy,” “jagged,” and “metal,” whereas the Spanish speakers, for whom “key” is feminine, gave responses...
Smile! Polaroid is Saved!
unicornology:
somethingchanged:
“For a generation, the Polaroid camera gave near-instant pleasure to millions of users around the world, chronicling everything from births and weddings to the downright explicit. But when digital photography came along in the 1990s – with instant images and the ability to edit and delete pictures before they see the light of day – Polaroid was doomed, its...
