I’m sure you’ve seen closeup photos showing a drop of water making a splash. Photographer Martin Waugh has made an art form of such pictures. You should visit his site- the picture below may be striking, but the effect of scrolling through his whole gallery is electric.
Posted by acilius on September 9, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/09/liquid-sculpture/
Another picture from weirdomatic.com showing what happens when you play with your food.
Posted by acilius on September 8, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/08/lecture-hall/
In 1982, Hollywood gave us a glimpse of what etymology teaching could be.
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/etymology-teaching-illustrated/
Via NotNSFW, a sister site of haha.nu, an ad with a logo that might… well, here it is.
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/no-look-at-it-again/
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/two-points-for-lenin/
This is something else I was sure I’d posted here about six months ago, but apparently I didn’t.
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/soko-will-never-love-you-more/
Here’s a filter blog about lots of random stuff. http://3quarksdaily.com/
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/3quarksdaily/
For almost 20 years, Finnish radio has been running a daily news program in Latin. It’s on FM in Finland, on shortwave everywhere else. Here’s their page about that program, with some old broadcasts available on RealAudio.
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/radiophonica-finnica-generalis/
I’m sure you’re all as fascinated by the second-century miscellanist Aulus Gellius as I am. Who isn’t? Here’s his book, the Attic Nights, online, in Latin with some of the English from the Loeb translation.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/home.html
Here’s Gellius referenced in Irving Babbitt’s Literature and The American College.
Here’s the frontispiece from an early edition of the Attic Nights.
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/aulus-gellius-online/
Funny, she didn’t look like that on TV…
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/jacqueline-bouvier-kennedy-onassis/
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