Monday miscellany

From a website showing old French tools and implements

The eggs of the house wren (via, which shows a variety of nests and eggs)

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Artspeak phrases recently encountered:
chlorotic reputations
indexical relation to reality
the simple indexical action of the camera
a substantiated version of an optical event
...functionality is transposed by materially reinscribing...

Chlorotic - "of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis"
Chlorosis -

1. Botany The yellowing or whitening of normally green plant tissue because of a decreased amount of chlorophyll, often as a result of disease or nutrient deficiency.

2. Pathology An iron-deficiency anemia, primarily of young women, characterized by a greenish-yellow discoloration of the skin. Also called greensickness.

Indexical (first known use 1971, says Merriam-Webster, but Oxford says its linguistic use was early 20th century) -
a :  varying in reference with the individual speaker indexical
 words I, here, now>

b :  associated with or identifying an individual speaker<indexical features of speech>

And while we're at it, what's a meme?

meme

noun

1. 1.

   an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
2. 2.

   an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.

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By Christine Wang (via)

By Michael Thibault (via)

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And now for something completely different - how's this for a view from a bedroom window -

It's Choumert Square in Peckham, actually a private alleyway; it had an open day at the weekend - I didn't go, but googled it, and found details of one of the cottages that had been for sale. At 397 square feet, it's ... bijou!