jajaja

a break from packing for this, my new favorite thing

newfoundland plz! …babies later

X

not surprisingly, i have a huge backlog of things to blog. i wish i could just give everyone direct access to my bookmarks to browse on their own time… but i suppose that’s possible and i should make the effort for you.

anyway, with the gustav scare looming, here’s a chilling nyt article about national guardsmen patrolling new orleans.. really makes it sound like a ghost town. now i want to read something about new life blooming in NO, any recommendations?

The images seen through that cracked windshield provide flashcard contradictions: a man drinking a beer on his deteriorated shotgun porch and a man painting his restored shotgun porch; a deserted dollar store, its door agape, and a new frozen-dessert shop, its window open.

A United Parcel Service truck making a delivery. Unsmiling children returning the sergeant’s wave. And everywhere, that X symbol used by rescue units in the first days after the flood to signal that a building had been searched for the living and the dead

this land: three years after the hurricane, the backup is a fixture

p.s. to my ex-project manager tracey & her husband steve (who moved back to new orleans on wednesday), my thoughts are with you!

underworld

work make angela too tired for complete thought, here neat youtube shit

via tokyomango

topological achievement

this diagram

is a pretty good representation of how my time is spent at work

stumblebee

bryn  just knows me all too well

i don’t even have words.

helloooo

reasons lily allen & i should def be friends

HAMHOCKS

UPPERCASEjournal inspired an ebay window-shopping spree for vintage rubber stamps, of which they have many — most are old office sets, though i did come across some pretty cool post office and banking stamps too. however, the best find was clearly the set of 51 stamps believed to have come from a meat packing plant

imagine how long it would take before you’d get tired of stamping “SIDE PORK” on everything!

now, who wants to give me $30?

neat science news of the day

New research published in the most recent issue of Nature suggests that people who survived the deadly 1918 flu epidemic may still be producing antibodies strong enough to kill new strains of bird flu.

“…But now researchers have come up with a new way of tackling such an outbreak.

They studied 32 people who lived through the 1918 flu, and found all still had antibodies in their blood to destroy the virus. Some of the volunteers – aged from 91 to 101 – even had the cells which produce the antibodies. The researchers used the antibodies to cure infected mice – showing, they said, that 90 years on, the survivors of the epidemic were still protected.

The antibodies were particularly powerful – so that only a small amount was needed to kill off the virus.”

-bbc article