Kissing in public is taboo throughout Indonesia, especially so in Muslim dominated Java and Lombok islands; hindu-majority Bali island, however, does offer young people (of different sex) one chance a year to demonstrate their love in public. “Kissing festival”, locally known as Med-Medan, is held one day after Nyepi. Onlookers cheer on as they sprinkle [...]
— I saw a weird looking sign, my husband tells me, on a Chinese restaurant. It had a large “七” – Chinese for 7 – with, underneath, the mention “Sept”.
— Yeah, “sept” is French for “seven”.
— What! (He reacts as if I’ve just proffered the most absurd of facts.) But isn’t sept the abbreviation of [...]
The jacks are:
♥ Lahire
♣ Lancelot
♦ Hector
♠ Ogier
The queens:
♥ Judith
♣ Argine
♦ Rachel
♠ Pallas
And the kings:
♥ Charles
♣ Alexander
♦ Jules
♠ David
Oliver Sacks says so (at 13:50): “There is another part of the brain, which is especially activated when one sees cartoons. It’s activated when one recognizes cartoons, when one draws cartoons, and when one hallucinates them. It’s very interesting that that should be specific.”
While reading some olympic news spiced up with useless knowledge à la Jean Dion, I found this rather incredible fact:
[...] the American Johnny Spillane, in nordic combined —cross-country ski plus ski jump — has a damn holy fear of… travel by airplane. «I hate it», said he, «I just sit there and suffer. From the [...]
Walter Fredrick “Fred” Morrison: inventor of the Frisbee, died on Feb. 9th at age 90. Frisbees were initially baptised Whirlo-Way, then Flyin-Saucer, and Pluto Platter, before becoming Frisbees. Let us lift a cake pan in his honor; Cheers, mister Morrisson!