Cabin on Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, Washington.
Photograph by Colin Brooks.
(Source: islityourthroat, via m0untain-style)
Totoro and Mei
Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
—The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Money can’t buy life
— Bob Marley, his last words to Ziggy
Question on Relationships
When your partner says something showing an incredible commitment to you and you are happy being with them but perhaps not as committed what should you say or how should you respond? If you dont return the feeling you cant say the same back to them but you may hurt them and ruin something good. Its a shame when relationships have unequal feelings for one another, which is sadly more often than not I think.
The world’s first analrapist
Things that make me lack faith in humanity
A growing list starting with 2 today
(off the top of my head)
1. NC passing ammendment 1
2. This: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
Using last.fm Data to Map Geographic Flow of Music
By tapping into the last.fm API, these Irish researchers modeled the geographic flow of musical influence. They were able to identify where certain tastes frequently originated, and draw a hierarchy of influential cities (like the chart shown above for North America).
Surprisingly, the size of a city doesn’t associate very strongly with how influential it is. That means that despite its enormous size, NYC isn’t that much more influential than Portland or Austin. There are prevailing theories that large cities are the drivers of cultural invention, but this seems to show (for music, at least) that a connected online world is leveling that playing field.
Also, they have a graph displaying “Normalized Radiohead vs. Normalized Coldplay”, which has to go down as one of the best figures in a research paper, ever.
(via arXiv)
