Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Sunday, August 8, 2010

whoops ... i've accidentally sold my friends' land to a chinese oil prospector on e-bay ...















... not !

this is ultra-snappy fantastically detailed interactive online mapping of agricultural land usage and classification from the spanish guvinment

http://sigpac.mapa.es/fega/visor/

Friday, August 6, 2010

three more beautiful things

The young foxes have grown.  One rolls on its back on the grass beneath the trees and street lights in the early hours, circled warily by another.  A third arrives suddenly and runs through their invisible circle in a straight line.

In Eric Rohmer’s film, Ma Nuit Chez Maude, two people quite suddenly ensnared by the idea of love, talk urgently on a hillside, oblivious to the fantastic view behind them of snow falling on the city of Clermont.

Walking along a dry path in the wood at night, one hears a soft slow crescendo of summer rain approaching through the trees.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

only connect
















a periodic table of swearing is a fine idea, though this one, from scurrilous publishers modern toss, can only be viewed as prototypical as there aren't nearly enough rows and columns to suit every purpose























for instance ... the old  dog wanders, lags, deviates, hesitates, strays, and generally retards my progress whenever i hobble across clapham common but ... if i should sit down to read the paper or jot something in a notebook, or just to ease my aching feet ... then she's right there in my face with her complaining and her whimpering

the new heavy duty attack element for doggie discipline i should wish to introduce to this revised post-quantumnal age table would be the conversational heavy element number 999 ... "STFU !"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stfu