February 2012
4 posts
Cameroon: The Cardiopad - an African Invention to... →
bezdan: theafricatheynevershowyou: A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save many African lives. He first has to find the necessary funding to mass-produce the device. In a country that has only 30 heart surgeons for more than 20 million people, the dream of Arthur Zang, a 24-year-old Cameroonian engineer, is to facilitate the...
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 4th
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ListenAlcest — Les Voyages de l’Âme ...
Feb 2nd
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January 2012
8 posts
“Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that...”
– Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts. - Jonathan Franzen (via bezdan)
Jan 30th
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Jan 28th
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“La larve, palpitante, comprend qu’elle est emprisonnée dans son oeuf. Elle...”
– Gris - Neurasthénie (2006)
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Cold Body Radiation (24) Alcest (21) Lantlôs (9) Blood of the Black Owl (7) Dax Riggs (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 29th
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November 2011
4 posts
“Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you...”
– 10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber) If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large...
Nov 30th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Lantlôs (35) Blood of the Black Owl (4) Black Hate (3) Old Silver Key (2) Beherit (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 28th
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“A programmer will eventually tell you to use Mac OSX or Linux. If the programmer...”
– Learn Python The Hard Way, Zed A. Shaw (via yumarlenehesayz) I mean, I like fonts and typography, I guess, but I definitely don’t have a huge beard. INSTALL LINUX. CONTROL. EVERYTHING.
Nov 23rd
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Downtown Houston looks amazing right now with heavy clouds hanging between and among the buildings and the moon shining bright. I hope someone out there is taking pictures for me to look at later!
Nov 3rd
October 2011
11 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Blood of the Black Owl (18) Petrychor (9) Vestiges (6) Mélancolie (5) Wounder (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 26th
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Oct 18th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Old Silver Key (25) Nunslaughter (19) Black Hate (6) Les Discrets (6) Godkiller (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 15th
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“That is the beauty of how emotion has functioned throughout evolution: it allows...”
– Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error
Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
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“But real life doesn’t work the way Hollywood depicts it. Most people’s lives...”
– Charles de Lint, Trader, p 37 (~07653029969)
Oct 6th
hesychia asked: btw, are you originally from Texas? If so, where?
Oct 4th
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hesychia: Meagan and I were complaining about new atheist-y types and the wars they wage on facebook and consequently share on Tumblr.  We were both perturbed about how they conflate “reason” with “anti-theism” and “tact” with utter douchebaggery. All the while some guy on the bus was very obviously flustered with us. I’m an atheist; just saying. It’s not something I yell out to...
Oct 4th
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“For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to...”
– Albert Camus (via valse-funebre) Always reblog Camus.
Oct 4th
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Oct 4th
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“Denied our names, our faces, we lie in the graves of our identity with a...”
– Wendelessen, from “The Graves of Strangers”
Oct 3rd
September 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Urfaust (11) Earth (4) Thränenkind (3) Wilds Forlorn (2) Caïna (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 27th
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“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live...”
–  S. I. Hayakawa (via abidaker)
Sep 18th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
Alcest (31) Gris (7) Peste Noire (6) Wolves in the Throne Room (3) Sombres Forêts (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 15th
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Tiny Blog in a Heavy Metal Landscape: C'mon,... →
blackbutshining: 10.09.’11 IRE - Dublin / Dublin Doom Day festival 23.09.’11 USA - Springfield, VA / Jaxx (with Enslaved & Ghost) 24.09.’11 USA - Millvale, PA / Mr. Small’s Theatre (with Enslaved & Ghost) 25.09.’11 USA - New York, NY / Gramercy Theatre (with Enslaved & Ghost) 26.09.’11 USA -… And that’s why I’m taking a much-needed and well-timed trip to...
Sep 3rd
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August 2011
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Alcest (19) Dax Riggs (16) Lantlôs (11) Anathema (11) Sombres Forêts (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 25th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
The Foetal Mind (38) Alcest (22) Dax Riggs (18) Sombres Forêts (16) Agents of Oblivion (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 16th
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Aug 13th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
Dax Riggs (28) Alcest (21) The Foetal Mind (19) Sombres Forêts (17) Wistful (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 9th
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Aug 9th
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Aug 6th
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Heat.
Not even worth watching the weather on local news. Same theme: hot, dry, heat advisory, record temps.
Aug 5th
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Aug 5th
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Aug 2nd
Demonym →
And this is what I read after lovin’ on the word Louisianian. :)
Aug 2nd
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In Houma, Louisianians show their pride... →
Monsieur Kittle a raconté, « Quand on a reçu les nouvelles que le deuxième meeting serait ici à Houma, on voulait changer des affaires.  On voulait montrer au monde que le français est une langue valide qu’on devrait pas cacher, spécialement pendant un meeting àyoù on est après discuter l’avenir du français.  Il faut parler français pour faire le français vivre.  C’est pas une langue...
Aug 2nd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
Dax Riggs (32) Sombres Forêts (21) Anathema (14) Death (14) Malcuidant (14) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 1st
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ListenLergrev — Dawn of the Dead Life
Aug 1st
July 2011
12 posts
No more Minitel. →
Jul 31st
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Jul 30th
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“Most Americans, regardless of political party, don’t understand how we can ask a...”
– President Obama (via azspot)
Jul 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Sombres Forêts (36) Dax Riggs (8) Anathema (7) Death (7) Amesoeurs (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 28th