this MIGHT hurt

Collywobbles

Definition:

pain in the abdomen and especially in the stomach; a bellyache

Example:

"... unfortunately I awoke this morning with collywobbles, and had to take a small dose of laudanum with the usual consequences of dry throat, intoxicated legs, partial madness and total imbecility..." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, 1890-1894

About the Word:

Etymologist believe that collywobbles most likely has its origin in cholera morbus, the Latin term for the disease cholera (the symptoms of which include severe gastrointestinal disturbance).
How would cholera morbus have shifted into collywobbles? By folk etymology – a process in which speakers make an unfamiliar term sound more familiar. In this case, the transformation was probably influenced by the words colic and wobble.

more power?

Should we be working to stop Google and Facebook from becoming even more powerful?

Well:

If it’s clear that Facebook and Google can’t manage what they already control, why let those corporations own more? America’s antitrust enforcers can impose such a rule almost immediately.
For one thing, there is no doubt these corporations qualify for antitrust regulation. Facebook, for instance, has 77% of mobile social networking traffic in the United States, with just over half of all American adults using Facebook every day.
Nearly all new online advertising spending goes to just Facebook and Google, and those two companies refer over half of all traffic to news websites. In all, Facebook has some 2 billion users around the world.

mind-expander

this thing ::: Seeking the meaning of mind

Haus- Rucker-Co, Mind Expander, 1967 Haus- Rucker-Co's experiment brought new perspectives on the fusion/separation between the body and the space.

go home (kidding)

like homey stuff? This blog about Home is where we put our best design stuff... BOOM

HERE

dancing their vision

Why they’re dancing at the world’s northernmost medieval cathedral
via

BOOM has a folder of crazy stuff

which you will be seeing SLOWLY all next month... some of it will make sense, or maybe not.

A preview:

we are gif-crazy... you do know that, right?   BOOM!

that elf

we have a big love for this elf...

what did you expect... it is ELF SEASON... BOOM

8,000-year-old stylized engravings show domesticated dogs

Rock Engravings of Dogs on Leashes Show Pre-Neolithic Good Boys

santa school?

Beach Santa sounds perfectly normal to us... BOOM!

There is even a Santa school... when you get to do fun stuff...

nine word story

here is one of my Mental Midget poems:



you do not know
what? what
you do not know

I am abnormal normal not
i break rulers rules apart
i bend spoons minds backwards

hope is skin-thin paper-thin
hope is waterproof tear-proof  gone
hope cracks creaks buckles
lost all my hope
 


yup, I am working on a new poetry collection... (c) 2017 LT... BOOM

HONESTY (Preview)

hair swapping?

Hair-swapping may seem a bit strange now, in an age where we can carry basically all of the non-forensic evidence of a relationship—from photos to correspondence to shared transactions—around in our phones. But in the past, and particularly in the Victorian era, swapping hair served as a common sign of affection, a way to literally give a friend, relative, or lover a piece of yourself, and keep a piece of them in turn.

John Keats’s hair, with a note from Leigh Hunt attesting to its provenance. The empty frame probably originally contained a portrait of the poet. Atlas Obscura

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what you looking at?

Stop Making Sense

hurting birds and bees migrations

FOR THE BIRDS  Eating even a few pesticide-coated seeds can disorient white-crowned sparrows, new studies suggest.

...new findings add to evidence suggesting that the widely used pesticides, which are chemically similar to nicotine, might be sending ecological ripples beyond the intended targets.
In lab studies, researchers captured wild white-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, that were migrating north and fed them small doses of imidacloprid for three days — the amount that birds would get from eating a few pesticide-coated wheat seeds. The birds that ate the pesticides lost weight, study coauthor Margaret Eng reported November 15 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America.
And when placed in a large, inverted funnel used to study birds’ migratory orientations, the neonic-fed birds tried to fly in directions other than north. Birds that consumed sunflower oil instead showed no ill effects. SOURCE