July 2010
“Fried chicken; roast pig; wild and tame turkeys, ducks and geese; venison just...”
– Mark Twain regarding southern food in the 1840’s, via Papercuts, via ”97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement” by Jane Ziegelman.
In a word, YES. (via 52books)
True story.
Now legal in the U.S.: Jailbreaking your iPhone,... →
gregrutter:
Holy. Mother. Fuck.
It’s no longer illegal under the DMCA to jailbreak your iPhone or bypass a DVD’s CSS in order to obtain fair use footage for educational purposes or criticism. These are the new rules that were handed down moments ago by the U.S. Copyright Office. This is really big. Like, really big.
The office looks at copyright law every three years in order to make...
“(630): The drunken tricycle race really added some class to the Tour de Franzia....”
– http://tfl.nu/uq3n
Comics alliance →
That last pic came from comicsalliance.com’s post about the protest, my click-through didn’t work for some reason.
52Books: Italo Calvino's sections of the... →
- Books You Haven’t Read
- Books You Needn’t Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But…
This. This so much.
