“There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.”
-Herman Melville
This has been one of those weeks that mixes fantastic highs with crippling self-doubt. Imposter syndrome is alive, well, and living in London, my friends. But enough with the first world problems, they’re nothing hard work and gumption won’t cure, on to links. They’re all quick and dirty this week. Share anything worth knowing in the comments and let me know what you’re getting up to this weekend.
(Feeling rather like the goose!)
Pantone before there was Pantone. By which I mean the 17th century.
My love for the blogging pair Tom and Lorenzo is well documented, so I loved this interview with them in Bitch Magazine.
I would play the heck out of this. House rules, you cannot ask questions about physical appearance. Terrible life choices, House allegiances, potential terrible fates only.
This new cartoon find amuses me greatly: (mostly) conversations betwixt inner organs and body parts, without being nearly as gross as it sounds. For example, the irritable bowel is…irritable.
A photography project to make you smile.
Either everything is a conspiracy or nothing has meaning. You decide.
Nate Silver, a quantifiably intelligent guy, has some interesting thoughts and data on the 2014 election. Vote, people, you lose your right to complain otherwise.
Sick of Buzzfeed quizzes? Here’s a new, kind of trippy alternative one h/t of Katarina, and it nailed us both.
Paging all book loving minions – which is the vast majority of you, let’s be honest. I’m a bit in love with this little boutique collection. Someone with an iPhone get that cover so I can live vicariously and enthuse about your purchase with you.
“The greatest threat to extremism isn’t drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.”
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:
One day you will be sick.”
– Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl
That quiz is weird but so interesting! I tried to answer without thinking too much about the questions and the result I got is amazingly accurate: “You love to work within a logical system, such as language, computer programming or mathematics” — I hate maths but am an aspiring linguistics lecturer/academic and I love languages.
“Although very amiable, you are not drawn to friendships out of a sense of personal need. You are just as happy by yourself with a good book or puzzle” — yep! I enjoy socialising with people but spending time alone with a book is something I love.
Isn’t it bizarre? And yet mine turned out pretty accurate as well – and not dissimilar to your good self!
I can’t decide if that test is eerily accurate or, if like horoscopes, all of the results are so general that they’re bound to be correct.
Me neither. But either way, they’re amusing.