Tuesday, February 24, 2009

I have found myself in the cracks in the floorboards, under which I have written books on monotheistic cockroaches.

Vogue China is the Chinese edition of Vogue magazine. The magazine carries a mixture of foreign and local content.

The Boy and the Fog (Spanish: El Niño y la niebla) is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Roberto Gavaldón. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

Turn is a double album by Dutch anarchist band The Ex.

A currency crisis, which is also called a balance-of-payments crisis, occurs when the value of a currency changes quickly, undermining its ability to serve as a medium of exchange or a store of value.

On the surface of the terminal vein is a narrow white band, named the lamina affixa.

Mate Parlov was a Croatian boxer, and an Olympic gold medalist for former Yugoslavia.

Sometimes, it's nice to know things.

We suppose ourselves to possess unqualified scientific knowledge of a thing, as opposed to knowing it in the accidental way in which the sophist knows, when we think that we know the cause on which the fact depends, as the cause of that fact and of no other, and, further, that the fact could not be other than it is. Now that scientific knowing is something of this sort is evident — witness both those who falsely claim it and those who actually possess it, since the former merely imagine themselves to be, while the latter are also actually, in the condition described. Consequently the proper object of unqualified scientific knowledge is something which cannot be other than it is.

— Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (Book 1 Part 2)