“It’s a dangerous business going out your front door.” —J. R. R. Tolkien
I’d Choose Grammar
“If I had a choice of weapons with you, sir, I’d choose grammar!” —from Lady For A Day
Love this insult heard in an early Frank Capra film that I watched on TCM last night. The butler said it! 🙂
Flash Chess
A very slick (and free) online chess game built in Flash. You can even download it and play it offline, too. LINK
Unsayable Grace
Words can never say, as music can, the unsayable grace that leaps like light from mind to mind. —Gwen Harwood
Ghost Singing
A 10-second fragment of a person singing Au clair de lune and recorded on April 9, 1860, has been discovered and played back. It was recorded with smoke and paper 17 years before Edison invented the phonograph. LINK
Martian Clouds Rolling By
Martian Clouds
Courtesy of Phoenix
Catching Up
Catching Up
Day-Blind Stars
…And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. —Wendell Berry
chaquejour66001
chaquejour66001 from Fabien Vita*’s photostream
sidereal
si·de·re·al
adj. Of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar.