tuesday procrastination guide

Hey! It's Tuesday and I'm studying for my upcoming History of Czech Grammar exam. That's it behind the coffee mug. It's exactly as interesting and attractive as it sounds.

In other news, I've learned some new html, so I've remade the 2013 books page and added a films tab. I learn like one html thing a month, but it's so exciting. And it makes the whole blogging business a lot more efficient.




And now to some procrastination. Enjoy! I'm going back to phonology and stuff.

Soul Compare. This is how I feel 

about every Facebook plugin. So. 

Creepy.

Get the most for your soul. Care to swap a bit of your soul with Cthulhu for tentacled perks? Or with Lucifer? No? Well, we'll see.

Can you tell Arial from Helvetica? This quiz shows you Helvetica logos recreated with Arial to test the claim that Arial is uglier and people can tell. For the record, I can and it is. It just is. (Stomps feet on the floor.)

"...a great many American women are culturally brought up to understand that our relationships with other women are always going to have an undercurrent of competition -- how do we compete with Lena Dunham, who refuses to play?" Even for non-watchers of Girls, this is a good article about the ridiculous taboos that the society still places on the notion of human body, not just the body of an American female.

"Female mason above Berlin." Retronaut.

"This exquisite corpse."  Intrigued? Click!

31 very clever DIY ideas.  Some of them are lifehacking at its best.

A bokeh how-to.  I don't know what bokeh is, but it sure looks good.

"IBM predicts that steampunk will be hip this year."  Steampunk is always hip. Always.

"Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets."

Why hand-lettering is not typography.

Annotated vintage pictures of tattooed women.