Puppies and Flowers & 60 beautiful vintage Travel Posters

http://www.puppiesandflowers.com/?p=3400

Especially East Jerusalem!

Wrangling Data with Open Source

http://www.stumbleupon.com/sublog/wrangling-data-with-open-source/

FTP:
“Our engineering team has been working around the clock to manage and monitor increasing amounts of data as our userbase continues to grow past 15 million. We¢â,¬re lucky to have a stellar team of HBase specialists ¢â,¬” including Michael Stack, one of the creators of HBase (an Apache project), and Jean-Daniel ¢â,¬oeJ-D¢â,¬, Cryans, database engineer and HBase committer ¢â,¬” that helps StumbleUpon manage 2.5 billion data points every week. (Since there are only eight HBase committers in existence, Michael and J-D take their jobs very seriously!) We couldn¢â,¬t manage our data without open source projects like HBase and Hadoop ¢â,¬” they¢â,¬re critical to our ability to build a fast and reliable user experience.”

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back

— Lewis Carroll.

http://losthunderlads.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/foucault-watermelon.jpg

Foucault in watermelon.
I also hope to become a subject of fruit sculpture once I am dead.

http://api.ning.com/files/IkYZfbfDzTVCeEEKewperVEt97wXmpPj0*7MbgkjhlvkaqdfGwI38km1QIRdNXAl-0RCJ79hhNq4tFliAhoWoeq-UUeZcJV6/andrewzuckerman3.jpg

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Divine Comedy

There Be Dragons: Big, Dangerous and Sometimes Misunderstood & Art Passions

http://artpassions.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/dragons-big-dangerous-and-sometimes-misunderstood/

Thor Slaying the Midgard Dragon – Henry Fuseli

…Then Thor was angered, and took upon him his divine strength, braced his feet so strongly that he plunged through the ship with both feet, and dashed his feet against the bottom; then he drew the Serpent up to the gunwale. And it may be said that no one has seen very fearful sights who might not see that: how Thor flashed fiery glances at the Serpent, and the Serpent in turn stared up toward him from below and blew venom.
(Prose Edda, Brodeur Trans.)

social networking by ~IigouthamiI on deviantART

http://iigouthamii.deviantart.com/art/social-networking-166711764

be open

In pictures: Frédéric Chaubins subversive Soviet superstructures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/08/chaubin-soviet-russia-architecture-photography

Truth is always strange — stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron, Don Juan

http://paintersoflouisville.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/titi.jpg

The work of art that says something confronts us itself. That is, it expresses something in such a way that what is said is like a discovery, a disclosure of something previously concealed.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer, Aesthetics and Hermeneutics

Like that bicycle.

Vivian Maier, street photographer and nanny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWEDOnBfDUI

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant–
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind–

— Emily Dickinson

[in case anyone (especially the documentary writers) missed the parallel with another profoundly artistic recluse famous only after her death.]