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inothernews: All these supposedly epic science fiction films and the best they can do is name planets and spaceships after characters from Greek mythology. If they go the other way, and create completely new words, or take words from some other well-known and therefore accessible ancient mythology, what would the effect be? How would that have a measurable effect on the “epic”...
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the bomb bag: Loglines For the Coming Cultural... →
thebombbag: Five Years and Fifteen Minutes Later: A husband and wife coping with their mundane lives five years after their engagement video went viral. A Million Words: A struggling writer is tasked with penning the novelization of LOLCats: The Movie. Update Mortis: A woman synchs her Facebook…
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The RadioLab episode about colours is blowing my...
Cool to the power of wonderful.
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You Taste Like Nachos: A mondegreen is the... →
youtastelikenachos: A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song. - its Wikipedia article The only reason I have heard of this word is because of the… Came from some poem or song where someone “laid him on the green”,...
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“What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about...”
– Stan Lee (via drug-rug) [Except that wanting to rule the world is not the same as doing things in order to achieve that goal. If Doom is/was a villain, is/was vilified just for wanting to rule the world, that would be some pretty upsetting use of thought-crime. I ain’t never on board for...
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
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Forward Motion: Tried watching some wacko's... →
invisiblebee: prolifeproblems: invisiblebee: I mean, that’d be tedious enough, but I couldn’t even press play due to the incredulous rage I felt as a result of the discussion thread attached to it. Much of what I read before I had to close the page was along the lines of, “I’m a man, and therefore it’s my choice too. I helped make it! What… What I take out of this is that the Holocaust...
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