Menagerie / Menażeria #5

[aletheiafelinea]

It’s been a while from the last time… Today’s Menagerie is mostly English. Rules as usual: the language of description tells you the language of the link’s content.




Helpful Definitions for Modern Authors. Highly useful. *nods sagely*

Ninedin okropnie mądrze w temacie uważanym przez wielu (ale coraz mniej) za niemądry. Metodologia krytyki fanfika.

27 Reasons You Should Never Visit Poland. Totally true. *g*

Now it’s official, Internet haz everything! Like this recipe for boiled water. What, don’t look so, it’s enlightening. Especially the advices #4 and #9 are pure gold.

We all like men in movies looking good, don’t we? Sure we do. So I think it’s only fair to know what is the cost of these looks. It’s also worth musing a moment over what exactly ‘looking good’ means nowadays and how it’s been changing over years (and it has). It’s also handy for the next time you’ll hear someone claiming that in Hollywood actors are actors and actresses are bodies… Building a Bigger Action Hero.

Speaking of bodies, Moomin Skeletal Diagram. If you ever wondered… *g*

Speaking of bodies even more, The Biology of B-Movie Monsters. You really need more reasons than this title to read it? :3

Ray Grant napisał dużą część tego, co myślę o książkach Zygmunta Miłoszewskiego (no dobra, z Chmielewską przesadził, ale już na przykład tamto alibi to sama mu zapewnię, jakby co), na skutek czego ja już nie muszę. Dlaczego ludzie nie chcą częściej tak odwalać roboty za mnie…

Today’s picture is Redundant Clock by Ji Lee. Check out his other works!



And today’s quotes:

Scientific revolutions don’t change the universe. They change how humans interpret it.
“The Science of Discworld IV: The Judgement Day” by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

Kto nie lubi myśleć, tego niecierpliwi rozmaitość, która zmusza do myślenia.
„Prawidła życia”, Janusz Korczak

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

I got a kick out of the clock and the modern publishing vocabulary -- thanks for sharing! :)

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Always happy to share kicks! *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all the English links!!
#I have saved the tips for authors - some good definitions there!! #Having been to Poland I got nostalgic looking at some of those pics and have saved the collection because when we went it was pre-digital era and we only have old fashioned photographs which I can never find.
#I am not at all sure why you should add ice to water before boiling it. However, I am sure the instructions are useful, especially 4 and 9.
#I absolutely hate muscled male bodies - no attraction at all.
#The moomin skeleton is delightful.
#My eyes started glazing over in the movie monster article.
#The clock reminds me of our kitchen wall clock which is backwards - the figures are backwards and the hands move anti clockwise so when it looks like quarter to something it is really quarter past, etc. You get used to it really quickly.

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! I should do it more often... (And more often bring pretty Polish things, if you liked this one. :)

#I am not at all sure why you should add ice to water before boiling it.
I wondered about this too. Maybe it's supposed to work as some reverse Mpemba effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect)?

#I absolutely hate muscled male bodies - no attraction at all.
It depends, for me. Overmuscled, yeah, I'm with you. Usually this (http://globe-views.com/dcim/dreams/ham/ham-05.jpg) is my first thought. *g*

#The clock reminds me of our kitchen wall clock which is backwards - the figures are backwards and the hands move anti clockwise so when it looks like quarter to something it is really quarter past, etc. You get used to it really quickly.
I think I've seen such ones here and there, but I never used one. Must be fun to have time going backwards. :)

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Definitely yes to the pretty Polish things. It was the most exciting holiday I ever had and one of the most beautiful. Gdansk, I think, is my favourite city ever. I bought some amber jewellery in the street in that picture. Malbork brought crusaders alive for me in a way other castles never had. We saw the bison, but in the wildlife park, not the actual forest.

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

There will be more in future Menageries, then!
(I love amber. And I do agree these other things are wonderful, too.)

[aletheiafelinea.livejournal.com]

Świnto prowda, jak powiadali starożytni Inuici. :)))