January 2012
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Cordisburgo - Cidade do coração →
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Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
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A certain hermit once said, “There is one thing that even I, who have no worldly entanglements, would be sorry to give up, the beauty of the sky.” I can understand why he should have felt that way.
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“People who don’t own guns really need to think about this: it’s just darn fun to...”
– Paul Barrett, on taking shooting lessons. (via nprfreshair)
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via NPR's Fresh Air - How The Glock Became... →
“The Glock was created in 1982 by curtain-rod manufacturer Gaston Glock. Glock didn’t like the handguns available on the market and decided to manufacture a new gun from scratch. Before starting, he asked gun experts in his native Austria what could be done to improve a handgun for the modern era.”
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Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
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A house, I know, is but a temporary abode, but how delightful it is to find one that has harmonius proportions and a pleseant atmoshpere. One feels somehow that even moonlight, when it shines into the quiet domicile of a person of taste, is more affecting than elsewhere. A house, though it may not be in the current fashion or elaborately decorated, will appeal to us by its unassuming...
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via NPR - Kathleen Edwards on All...
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via NPR - Three Books on All Things Considered by...
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Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
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One morning after a pleasant fall of snow I sent a letter to someone with whom I had business, but failed to mention the snow. The reply was amusing: “Do you suppose that I shall take any notice of what someone says who is so perverse that he writes a letter without a word of inquiry about how I am enjoying the snow? I am most disappointed in you.” Now that the author of that...
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The Sunshine Hotel @ SoundPortraits.org →
This is an audio portrait of one of the final vestiges of the Bowery, New York’s notorious skid row. In the first half of the century, the mile-long Bowery’s bars, missions and cheap hotels (or flophouses) were home to an estimated 35,000 down-and-out men each night. Today, only a handful of flophouses, virtually unchanged for half a century, are all that remain of this once teeming...
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