Impresiones de Madrid

Bueno, pues para los que no puedan vivir sin mis dosis de sabiduría, informo de que estoy un poco ajetreado aquí en Madrid. Entretanto, os dejo algunas cosas varias (Guti dixit) para quitaros el malvado mono:

Para empezar, una página medio paranoica con montones de textos interesantes, intitulada "Thought Crime": Link.

Una conferencia de Philip K. Dick,"How to build a Universe that doesn't fall apart two days later", sacada de la mesma página. Empieza diciendo cosas sensatas, pero luego se ralla mucho con eso del VALIS (si no tenéis ni idea, Wikipedia os iluminará). En cualquier caso, recomendable. Link.

Unas fotos mu gonicas de nuestros amigos los insectos: Link.

Atentos a esto:

The longest non-technical word is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.
In his play Ecclesiazousae ("The Assemblywomen"), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created: Lopadot(...)terygon, a word of 183 letters that describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients.
The longest place name in the world spelled in English is Krungthe(...)nukamprasit in Thailand, although it is more commonly known as Bangkok.
he longest word in the English language containing only one vowel is strengths, while scraunched is the longest monosyllabic word in current usage. Twyndyllyngs is the longest word without any of the common vowel letters a, e, i, o, or u (although y functions as a vowel in this word). Euouae, at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. It is a medieval musical term. However, u was often used interchangeably with v, and the variant "evovae" is occasionally used.

El artículo, cómo no, es de la wikipedia. Link.

Ah, y por supuesto no podía faltar Link.

Y como bonus track, unas fotacos del otro día en el retiro. Están en un set en Flickr. Link (he comes to town, etc.)