words that don’t exist in the english language:
L’esprit d’escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.
Gigil: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.
Pochemuchka: (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions.
Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.
Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.
Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
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Britain’s best views: Leeds Markets
(Source: Guardian)
Dubstep Bassline using Xbox Kinect (by synaecide) via @hellokinsella
I have a thing for sketchbooks. Andrew Groves’ is ace.
(Source: swordandstump)
“Do you mind if I have a quick one?”
(Source: iwdrm)
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Love that Hospital are still using old-school hardware to print their white labels. No idea what that colander is doing there though. via @invisiblea
Hospital promo sticker printing - 15 years of white labels!
This morning we were showing our new intern Cassia how to use the Hospital promo sticker printing station, and it occurred to me that our sticker printer is the oldest piece of kit we have in our office, and it has seen 15 years of Hospital. We bought the Imagewriter II printer in 1996 when were based in London W14 because it loads the special pharmacy grade stickers we order from Cee Gee in Harlesden. Cee Gee haven’t changed either, and still produce brilliant old school chemist style stickers for us. You have to use an old classic mac to drive the imagewriter 11 running mac OS9.2, the all time classic operating system for many mac geeks. I hope this piece of history keeps going and going. I hope this post is not the kiss of death!
Todd McLellan’s “Disassembly” pieces are cracking. Reminds me of taking apart old tape decks with Christmas cracker screwdriver sets as a kid.
via @gilcocker
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A snapshot of humanity’s language.
Unicode by ffoitl via @mrgan
“The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.”
This may be my favourite movie poster of all time.
Strange things happened in black and white times. via @daddycaniburnit
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Chances are you might not have heard this Nate Dogg track, which is class despite actually being a Craig David remix. Yes, you heard right. Nate Dogg, Mos Def, and DJ premier bust out a banging remix of 7 days.
RIP
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