Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
—Jim Rohn
a map of people in chicago going to work and then going home via their geotagged tweets (via gapersblock)
Is this the structure of Chicago? (by Eric Fischer)
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells spoke of the Morlocks and the Elois in 1895.
Color Star
The future is already here. It just isn’t evenly distributed yet
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William Gibson
OCD Allows Ed Loftus To Spend 5 Months On Just One Of These Drawings
Loftus has struggled with OCD his entire life, but his affliction becomes luminous through the power of art.
Artist with OCD
as long as it affirms courage and grace under pressure
Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about- however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way- either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.
—Herman Melville
Speech accents the world over
Everyone who speaks a language, speaks it with an accent. A particular accent essentially reflects a person’s linguistic background. When people listen to someone speak with a different accent from their own, they notice the difference, and they may even make certain biased social judgments about the speaker.
The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded.1 The archive is constructed as a teaching tool and as a research tool. It is meant to be used by linguists as well as other people who simply wish to listen to and compare the accents of different English speakers.
