via @michelledion

It’s true that kids will write more and more on computers and cellphones. Nonetheless, humanity has learned to rediscover as sports and aesthetic pleasures many things that civilisation had eliminated as unnecessary.

via guardian.co.uk

I dislike the new flickr logo; this greasemonkey script will replace it with the old one. I changed lines 16-17 to display a smaller logo:

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According to research by psychologists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, exposure to the surrealism in, say, Kafka’s “The Country Doctor” or Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” enhances the cognitive mechanisms that oversee implicit learning functions.

via sciencedaily.com

Artists hawking their wares, food vendors, dogs; good fun.

Royal Ontario Museum followed by dessert at Future Bakery.

There’s an old joke that you know you’re in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it’s the other way around you’re in hell. In an attempt to conjure up a perfect city, I imagine a place that is a mash-up of the best qualities of a host of cities.

via wsj.com

O’Reilly has published a number of Open Books – books with various forms of “open” copyright – over the years.
via oreilly.com

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“I am pleased we were able to resolve this sensitive issue that impacted many baseball fans and are able to move the game at Yankee Stadium to 1 p.m.,” Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.
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Yes, that’s Texas.