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Written from a hospital bed in 1875, after the 26-year-old Henley had had his leg amputated as a result of tuberculosis of the bone. Originally untitled, Arthur Quiller-Couch bestowed the name “Invictus” (“Unvanquished”) when he included it in The Oxford Book of English Verse. This was the poem Nelson Mandela kept on a scrap of […]

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This lovely series of drawings parallels my own changing relationship to the bean. “I must have been 5 when I first discovered the taste of coffee, when I was accidentally given a scoop of coffee ice cream. I was inconsolable: how could grown-ups ruin something as wonderful as ice cream with something as disgusting as […]

This would be a fun DIY, or you can buy them from DIREKTRECYCLING. Design Squish Blog: RECYCLED MAP ENVELOPES.

So I made you all a little mixtape. Mix file? That sounds lame. Anyway. Here are some good, bad, and interesting cover songs. Why cover songs?

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An art project made of found audio and video, for my “Works on Paper” class. Oh What a World that Ends

Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Arthur Hugh Clough  (1819-1861) Say not the struggle nought availeth,      The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth,      And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;      It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your […]

Brainstorming Reloaded | PsyBlog.

Lost Ukrainian Kills At Open-Mic Night | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

Gorbachev Records Album, World Survives – Russia.

myvintagevogue I am smitten. Someone send me some trail mix, I think I will be spending a while here.

Flagler videos capture a side of Wal-Mart we all suspected was there: Among the revealing moments: A former executive vice president and board member challenges store managers in 2004 to continue his work opposing unionization. Male managers in drag lead thousands of co-workers in the company’s corporate cheer. In another meeting, managers mock foolish or […]

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? – The Atlantic (February 1982) sheds light on just how much harm the diamond industry has done overseas. If this much was known in 1982, why did it take so long to get a dialogue going with such works as Blood Diamond?

  (This was a class project, but I thought I’d share.) Translator’s Notes NR It is often said that every translation is an interpretation.What is more, I often find that attempting translation leads me to better interpretation, and vice versa. The mind, when not in translation mode, has a tendency to skim over less-understood words, […]