Monday, August 9, 2021
THE CORICANCHA, one of Cusco’s most mesmerizing megalithic sites, features this finger-tip-sized precision stone.
— @accidentalmystery
Sunday, August 8, 2021
As the historian Brian Dippie has astutely observed, "the belief in the Vanishing Indian was the ultimate cause of the Indian's vanishing." Metamora was just one of dozens if not hundreds of literary productions by which the fate of the Cherokees, Choctaws, Seminoles, Creeks, and Chickasaws was made acceptable to the American public by virtue of its very inevitability.... Did they suspect that white New Englanders' valuable opposition to Indian removal depended on the illusion that there were no more Indians in New England?
— Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Elaine Scarry has argued that the lingering evidence of a war's destruction documents and reinforces its ending: "The very endurance of the record partly explains why the outcome is abided by."
— Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Friday, August 6, 2021
“They’ve been selling privacy to the world and making people trust their devices,” Mr. Green said. “But now they’re basically capitulating to the worst possible demands of every government. I don’t see how they’re going to say no from here on out.”
— Jack Nicas, "Apple’s iPhones Will Include New Tools to Flag Child Sexual Abuse," The New York Times
Thursday, August 5, 2021
I asked you to go to the Green Day concert
You said you never heard of them
You said you never heard of them
— Weezer, "El Scorcho," playing at Fenway before Green Day
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
He's singing opera.
— Lily on Billy Joel
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
My artistic idol is the carpenter who carved this image so high up in a church, people didn't know about it for 800 years
— @MadelineHorwat1 reposted by @everyverything
Monday, August 2, 2021
If I die, your word "treachery," is almost as important as my wound, since you alone survive to make meaning of my death. War is a contest of injuries and of interpretation. As the literary critic Elaine Scarry has argued, war "differs from all other contests in that its outcome carries the power of its own enforcment."
— Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Sunday, August 1, 2021
Ruin value (German: Ruinenwert) is the concept that a building be designed such that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all.
— Wikipedia
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Oil paintings are lovely but so hard to fit in your pocket.
— Connecticut Historical Society Museum wall text about portrait miniatures
Friday, July 30, 2021
Sir, there is something on your chin.
— Note Biden held up
Thursday, July 29, 2021
This is his claim to fame.
— Dad on the information written about Thomas Leach only saying "• Captain Leach, who sailed out of Salem, died at sea in 1828 • Took son at age 9 out as a cabin boy and chastised him for wearing mittens"
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
William F. Galvin has held the office since 1995.
— "Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth," Wikipedia
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Mr. Hirst is selling a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each of which corresponds to a physical dot painting, for $2,000 each. A year from now, the collectors of the series, called “The Currency,” will have to decide whether to keep the NFT or the painting; whichever one they don’t choose will be destroyed.
— Paul Sullivan, "A Painting or an NFT of It: Which Will Be More Valuable?," The New York Times
Monday, July 26, 2021
That's a lot of points.
— Lily on how many Alexa "question of the day" points we have
Sunday, July 25, 2021
The South Korean broadcaster MBC showed photographs associating pizza with Italy, Chernobyl with Ukraine and Count Dracula with Romania in its coverage of the opening ceremony.
— Subhead for "Broadcaster Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate’ Images Aired During Olympic Parade," The New York Times
Saturday, July 24, 2021
More mud my man.
— Phrase Isaac and Mason repeated over and over while they played in a pool of water dug on the beach
Friday, July 23, 2021
Lots of you mentioned the cost of analog photography as being a critical aspect of the appeal (the price tag gives it worth)
— @emily_elsie over passage from Nathan Jurgenson's The Social Photo, "Analog images are seen as slow, pricey, and rare to the degree that social photos appear quick, cheap, and abundant. That an old photo could survive as long as it did grants it an authority that the equivalent digital photo taken today may never achieve."
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Pa. High School's Resemblance To The Millennium Falcon: 'It's Really Uncanny'
— CBS Philly headline, google result after looking into "Suggested for You" Star Wars Fans United post on Facebook
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Because Han Solo says "I'll see you in Hell" in Empire Strikes Back, there's an entire mythology for what Hell is in the Star Wars universe.
— "Suggested for You" Star Wars Fans United post on Facebook