notes.husk.org. tagged words.

2012-04-06

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photo 22:42:08

This is a pretty good definition of the new-aesthetic, I think.

2012-03-13

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photograph everything by Dean Ayres on Flickr:

The latest advice from Munsons.

2012-03-10

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Will Be, Tim Etchells. (via; images via)

“ It was fairly common in medieval times to put east at the top. Which has a logic to it: when traveling across open terrain, the one consistent thing you had to orient yourself by when you broke camp in the morning was the sunrise. In fact, that’s the source of the term “orient yourself”: it literally means to face east. ”

Carl Muckenhoupt in a comment on See Different, a MetaFilter thread about alternative maps.

I’d never thought about the word. This was a little explanation bomb going off in my head.

2010-03-14

flibbertigibbet

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dailymeh:

flibbertigibbet

Here’s an f-word for you, as far as I can tell not noted here or here (does that mean everyone knows it already?).

flibbertigibbet • noun • a silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities.

I knew that word, but I always used it in an equal-opportunities manner (often aimed at myself) rather than at “pert young women”.

Here’s another f-word I’m fond of:

flounce • noun [intrans] • move with exaggerated motions : she flounced around, playing the tart and flirting.