Daily Archive: March 12, 2013

2-0 down? No problem.

Leo Messi and Barcelona decided they’d just go and demolish AC Milan at Camp Nou 4-0 to seal a 4-2 aggregate victory and proceed to the next leg of the Champion’s League….Messi had an...

The Seated Woman: a Tuareg poem

By request, another poem by Souéloum Diagho. A few words of explanation: Diagho’s poems contain words with doubled meanings, especially the word “cour”, which can mean courtship or enclosed space. Boegiboe helpfully observes the...

Princess Pauline Rescues Mario

Programmer Mike Mika hacked in to the code for the classic video game Donkey Kong so that his three-year-old daughter could play as Pauline instead of Mario. He writes: “She really did seem to enjoy...

Imbalance of Power

Courtesy of the the New York Times, what makes these two pictures similar?