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In an intriguing blog entry
the mysterious jasminembla muses about the man in the moon, and his relationship with thorns, linking finally to a most remarkable collection of sourced and footnoted Victorian
Moon Lore authored by a Rev. Timothy Harley, 1885. In the "
Man in the Moon" section, we learn that, indeed, the man in the moon has been traditionally linked with thorns, variously being exiled to the moon for stealing a bundle of brambles, strewing brambles on the path to church to hinder the pious, or cutting wood on the Sabbath, among other infractions - and that this folktale has existed since at least 1157, when an English abbot asks, in Latin, "
Do you not know what the people call the rustic in the moon who carries the thorns? Whence one vulgarly speaking says,
"The Rustic in the moon /
Whose burden weighs him down /
This changeless truth reveals /
He profits not who steals."
Furthermore, no less a personage than Shakespeare has mentioned the thorny situation of the poor man in the moon... and most interesting, perhaps, the rather convincing theory that the bramble-burdened man in the moon may very well be an older "Jack" of Jack and Jill fame, who did not steal, but was stolen by the moon, along with his sister.
posted to MetaFilter by taz
at 5:46 AM on June 26, 2008
(19 comments)
WTF, Nature?
is a blog about natural oddities. Kinda like Cute Overload, but with a different adjective.
posted to MetaFilter by owhydididoit
at 12:12 PM on May 7, 2008
(12 comments)
Homer Simpson in CSS
"...I stayed with the idea in mind that more complex designs could be made using the Verdana font and absolute positioning in CSS, thus generating vector drawings directly embedded in the code html."
[via]
posted to MetaFilter by mewithoutyou
at 12:15 PM on April 30, 2008
(52 comments)
The wolf
Is shaved so neat and trim
Red Riding Hood
Is chasing him
BURMA-SHAVE
posted to MetaFilter by hadjiboy
at 12:21 AM on April 23, 2008
(33 comments)
Throwing bones in the air as 2001 turns 40. Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey turned 40 yesterday and Movie City Indie collated a good selection of links about the film and its maker to commemorate the occasion.
posted to MetaFilter by slimepuppy
at 7:40 AM on April 3, 2008
(39 comments)
I have Tourette Syndrome, and I can't stop jumping up and down. Help me rewire my defective brain to channel this activity into something less destructive.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Juliet Banana
at 3:05 PM on March 31, 2008
(36 comments)
Controlled Safety Test Fireworks Videos :
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posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris
at 8:11 PM on March 20, 2008
(35 comments)
Ultimate resource for people who create stuff online.
This site is pretty much a collection of links that I've found very useful over the last year, or so. First, and foremost, I must thank
Vitaly.Friedman for getting the vast majority of them together all in one place for the first time. I used his version of this page for many months before taking on the not small task of creating my own. Why would I do such a thing? I wanted a list of resources more tailored to my tastes and needs. There was about a 5% broken link ratio on the other one; as well as tons of links to German, Russian, and Spanish language sites. My horizons being a bit narrower, I wanted to cull some of the noise (to me) from the signal. I also love information design and enjoyed the challenge of arranging such a vast amount of information in an easily navigable and understandable way. I'll do my best to keep it updated, to cull broken links as they arise, and I'll be expanding on it considerably as I continue to find and evaluate resources for web developers. If you come across a broken link, or know of a resource that you'd like to see added to this page, let me know at the
suggest/report a link page. I hope this list of resources is as useful to you as it has been, and will be, to me.
posted to Projects by wmeredith
at 9:03 PM on January 24, 2008
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