Monthly Archives: April 2009
Devotion + repetition
Via monoscope: 70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches deep in some areas, are the result … Continue reading
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What climate change and video games have in common
The always-enlightening Clive Thompson recently called attention to an interesting neologism that links climate change to failing MMO games: solastalgia, defined by Thompson as “the homesickness one feels not when one moves away, but when one’s home environment vanishes before … Continue reading
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72nd to Canal
This is a plug for one of my favorite blog writers (and one of the first I discovered when taking my first tentative steps out into the big wide Web). I’ve been a fan of hipstomp (aka Rain Noe) for … Continue reading
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PJ Bland’s
Chili’s created an entire, fully-functional website AND Twitter page for a pretend restaurant as part of their new marketing campaign, yet the Treasury couldn’t even manage to get FinancialStability.gov set up in time for Tim Geithner’s press conference announcing it. … Continue reading
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