things less interesting than a pigeon walking in a circle.
A friend of mine has a photoblog over at http://LondonRubbish.com, and manages a double feat of a) posting a daily image, and b) every image being amazing.
One of my favourites recently, I felt, needed the webponce touch.
(click to enlarge)
When its an informative piece of neuroscience:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2006/02/pinky_and_the_brain_.html
See Mom/Girlfriend/General Disparaging Comment Makers, cartoons can be useful for growned ups too!
1. get a piece of questionable cheese
2. get a scalpel and carve the word ‘cheese’ in the cheese
3. eat the cheese
Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents
Think: whoosh, bang, pop, splosh
Over at The Visual Dictionary we were discussing what it means to have an image of a word which does similar - for instance, the word yellow, written in yellow, the word ‘water’ written in a puddle, and so on. Onomatopoeia doesn’t actually come from word roots surrounding the word ’sound’ - depending on where you read, it is a greek word meaning ‘name making’, or built up from ‘ono-’ singular, ‘-peoeia’ meaning formation, ‘-mat-’ being the name of a generally intelligent or revered person.
Ideograph was posited as a suitable word, but maybe misses the mark a little.
We’ve stuck with visual onomatopoeia for now.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/onomatopoeia.html
Good Example 1
Good Example 2
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I cycled this morning, not meaning to.
My knee has been giving me grief and I was going to give it a rest and tube it in, but I overslept and I realised there was simply no way I’d get to my 8.30 meeting if I caught the tube.I cycled, and made it on time. Surely that ain’t right?
It helped that I had a pacekeeper - a young blonde Burt Reynolds.
I’d originally planned on keeping up with this other guy on a road bike, but saw his legs were not dissimilar to those in Belleville Rendez-vous, that I thought better of it.
Mr Reynolds was an easier target.
