These are my links for August 7th 2011 from 16:27 to 22:41:
- Sherry Lutz Zivley – Satan in Orbit: Paradise Lost: IX: 48-86 – Milton Quarterly 31:4 – Milton's surprising astronomical accuracy
- Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt – review | Books | The Guardian –
- Acting up: is hysteria all in the mind? | Life and style | The Guardian – "some of the facets of what was once termed hysteria, do, [Hustvedt] says, still exist: in the many neurological complaints that still go undiagnosed; in eating disorders (some of Charcot's hysterics refused food); in the increasingly widespread diagnosis of depression (Augustine, Blanche and Geneviève all led extremely troubled and traumatic lives: towards the end of his life, Charcot was approaching a psychosomatic explanation for their symptoms); in self-mutilation, multiple personality disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome; and even in the sudden outbreak of rashes reported by schoolgirls across America in the wake of 9/11."
- diamond geezer walks the capital ring –
- World Wide Words: The Colour of Words – Pink is named after the flower, orange after the fruit… and puce after the flea
- N+7 – "The N+7 procedure, invented by Jean Lescure of Oulipo, involves replacing each noun in a text with the seventh one following it in a dictionary." [This generates N+1 to N+15]
- African Dope Publishing presents Zoo City: The Soundtrack – A non-sucky book soundtrack: "lush, dark, gritty mix of kwaito and electronica"
- WHAT YOU SEE IS *not* WHAT YOU GET – WYSI*not*WYG Project by Olivier Ratsi – Anarchitecture: "it's about time, not space"
- WordPress › Support » how to change the "Read More.." text –
- Typekit –
- Knoydart Accommodation – Luxury Lodges Scotland –
- My Dryer Has A Brain –
- Thought You Should See This – The Missing Human Heart of Innovation –
- Why would a blind man love cricket? For its sounds, its scores, its slowness | Peter White | Comment is free | The Guardian – "At the special blind school where I and my friends regularly played, two totally blind batsmen would cheerfully hare off from opposite ends for quick singles, frequently colliding in the middle with earth-moving consequences"
- Scottish Cruises | The Majestic Line –
- The Breckland Society > Warrens Project – Rediscovering the lost rabbit farms of the Norfolk and Suffolk Brecks
- Dan Hillier Gallery – Altered engravings