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esperanca

  1. Sometimes you've just got to keep on keeping on.
  2. Hugo, Vonnegut, Kerouac, & more authors as artists (MelvilleHouse) When great authors pick up the brush ow.ly/bgDIm
  3. Creating each Hermès scarf takes 24 months. (TheBrander) Hermès – The Keepers of Savoir-Faire - ow.ly/bgDC1
  4. "...no painting bought for $30 million or more has ever been resold at a profit." (NYT) ow.ly/bfVcS
  5. Simply amazing: This @DiscoverMag post written in a font made of DNA - ow.ly/bfU7r
  6. Garden gnomes can also turn into zombies (LaughingSquid) ow.ly/bfSPo
  7. @awholenuworld Yes! It's an instant 'escape/ignore' device.
  8. "...a small invisible fence around our minds...helping us listen to ourselves." (TA) How Headphones Changed the World ow.ly/bfSeR
  9. RT @StanCarey Water Flea Waltz youtube.com/watch?v=1KIVW8… (piano music from the Max Plankton Institute)
  10. @vonskunk Aye, but with all that vodka ... I may not need those curtains!
  11. @StanCarey That's an ace idea. I clicked through a few and discovered 'love conquers all' is something I would've sketched.
  12. @vonskunk Ah, I can sleep anywhere but I'm sensitive to light. Gauzy curtains provoke grumpiness.
  13. I don't care much about bed orientation, I only need blackout curtains.
  14. ‘The Way You Sleep’ enables guests to link hotel experiences with the way they sleep at home - ow.ly/bfNJD
  15. Txt style essay written in 1890 by Charles C Bombaugh: "From virt U nev R D V 8; Her influence B 9 ..." ow.ly/beJRK
  16. @StanCarey So precious! And hard to pin favourites.
  17. RT @StanCarey I love these. Idioms drawn by children: bit.ly/Fcjxk
  18. (TheEconomist) The Q&A: Jonah Lehrer - The wondrous world of three pounds of meat ow.ly/befJD
  19. Jonah Lehrer: "I probably read Virginia Woolf more than anyone else ... Woolf was intensely interested in capturing the mind on the page."