January 2012
4 posts
Emotional Bag Check →
This seems like a really cool idea for using the power of the internet to do some good.
Gender diversity in Jewish texts →
Really nice concise explanation of the Talmudic view of gender, from R Elliot Kukla via Lethargic Man.
December 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
“Rich men beware. Death waits outside your hall
And dying is the one thing you...”
– Roz Kaveney, 2011: A poem for the Occupation perhaps – The Ballad of Death and the Maid
God's Blog →
Not all of these blog comment parodies are funny, but some are hilarious
September 2011
2 posts
Sex toys without sleaze →
Specifically aimed at the married Orthodox Jewish market but actually I think quite a good idea. I bet there are plenty of people who want to buy sex aids and kink equipment who don’t necessarily buy into the sexxxxaaaay aesthetic or want to look at more-or-less soft porn in order to be able to shop.
August 2011
3 posts
WatchThe placebo effect is seriously awesome, people. (Via Siderea)
“Biology is an extraordinarily digestive science. It throws out a number of broad...”
– HG Wells, Ann Veronica (1909)
Glossary of Yorkshire medical terms →
Honest-to-goodness genuine glossary issued to southern and foreign doctors working in Doncaster PCT to help them understand their patients’ dialect…
July 2011
4 posts
Slate's Cartoon Color Wheel →
I was going to post just the image, but it’s animated with fancy JS effects. Do click through, though, it will make you smile
IDF intelligence corps memories →
Seriously amazing account of life in the Israeli army intelligence corps, really powerful writing.
Wombats! →
Wombat page from a Mediaeval bestiary
June 2011
2 posts
“…the usual cod evolutionary bollocks that infests popular discourse on...”
– Martin Robbins, The Guardian 2011
May 2011
3 posts
Teeny tiny baby bird! →
Issa baaaaaaby quail! Hatching in the photographer’s hand, no less!
“Adulthood looks like a fairyland to a child: arbitrary rules, beautiful and...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, 2011
April 2011
2 posts
Daegaer wrote Beruria fic! →
Part III is kind of icky, but then the original Talmudic story she’s writing fic about is not very pleasant either…
March 2011
2 posts
Fat people on Tumblr
I have to admit, I like Fa(t)shion February better than Fat People Art (Week). Partly, and I’m a little embarrassed about this, because the former shows people who actually look fat to my eyes, rather than people considerably thinner than me but a shade plumper than the average heavily Photoshopped fashion model.
But mainly I just like the aesthetic better. It seems to me much more...
February 2011
3 posts
tumbleflakes:
neonloneliness:
apiphile:
hedwigthefeminist:
*small wibble*
this is very cute :)
Yup. this is too cute!
So apparently it is possible to explain homosexuality to kids without going into details of the mechanics of anal sex. Who knew?
Soviet safety posters →
This is from English Russia, not the world’s most trustworthy source, so some of the posters might be Photoshopped. But even if fake, someone has done a great job of imitating the Soviet art style, and some of these are really funny!
December 2010
1 post
The Total Perspective Vortex - in a Flash... →
I find this awe-inspiring, not depressing, but YMMV.
November 2010
2 posts
“Equator’s gonna equate… Donuts gonna donate? Enzyme’s got a...”
– Poecilia, If haters gonna hate…
August 2010
1 post
Foldit →
OMG they made Rosetta interactive! Too cool. (I was always bad at protein structure stuff, but the game is designed for lay people, so I’m sure I’ll be fine.)
July 2010
1 post
“You are strongly encouraged to be in attendance lest by your absence you become...”
– Abi Sutherland, 2010
June 2010
2 posts
Iceland wants to be your friend →
As the kidz say, Ded. Of. Cute.
Muslim LOLcats →
Via Delux Vivens. I don’t get all the jokes but some of them are incredibly familiar.
February 2010
3 posts
Liberal Rabbi speaks out on legal equality for... →
Guardian, Feb 2010
“How hard it was for Adam Ha-Rishon! In order to make a web page, first he had to...”
– Leftyjew, Feb 2010
September 2009
1 post
Anarchist Torah commentary →
That’s my little brother writing a sermon for the Jewish anarchist crowd on the Torah sections we read at the New Year.
August 2009
1 post
June 2009
1 post
Children do remember what you tell them →
April 2009
1 post
“This could affect a culture as well as an organism, giving the progression...”
– Less Wrong summarizes the history of music (via Trinityva on masochism)
March 2009
1 post
The boy does nothing →
Heard this on the radio today: a catchy song by Alesha Dixon on the very unusual topic of men who don’t do enough around the house…
September 2008
1 post
“Orgueilleux du présent, insouciants sur l’avenir, pauvres de renommée, de...”
– Alexandre Dumas’ translation of Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis by Ugo Foscolo.
I don’t know the details (eg dates), I just happened to come across this lovely bit of political cynicism in a text I’ve been proofreading for Project Gutenberg’s Distributed Proofreading...
August 2008
2 posts
Noa: Nocturno →
I love the fact that this song contains vocabulary that would have been comprehensible to Moses! Also, Noa has a gorgeous gorgeous voice.
If you can believe YouTube comments, the song is also called קרן אור (Ray of light) and the lyrics come from a poem by Leah Goldberg. She studied Semitic languages in Germany before the creation of the State of Israel, which would explain the...
“Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen: Redet man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie...”
– Goethe, Maximen und Reflexionen, 1840 (as quoted by Roland Elis in a systems biology lecture, August 2008)
July 2008
1 post
Unexpected emotional complications
J: I was hoping for a nice roll in the hay
J: But the haystack turned out to be a treacle mine
June 2008
1 post
“There’s a meaning inside that language-tangle;
it’s in there...”
– Suzette Haden Elgin, 2008
May 2008
1 post
“I’m not lying down in the flowers with somebody I don’t know well...”
– Pamela Dean, Tam Lin, 1991