Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Hogwarts Houses as Dresses

by Alanna Bennett | 5:29 pm, August 12th, 2012

One of the many (many) memorable things to come out of the Harry Potter series are the Hogwarts houses. Each has their own distinct (yet intertwining) vibe. It makes sense, then, to use those vibes (and house animals) as inspiration for these rather striking dress designs (via io9)

A dalmatian adopted a spotted lamb, and our hearts explode in response. (The Frisky)
Nerd staples Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day are narrating a fantasy audiobook by Ellen Kushner, and we kind of can’t wait. (io9)

College Humor imagined what seven different websites would be as the seven deadly sins. Netflix is sloth:

What is life like for those who’ve spent their entire lives unable to hear music? For many hearing-enabled, it’s hard to imagine. Luckily, one man decided to write about the first time a new hearing aid allowed him to experience the sound of some of humanity’s most beautiful music. It’s a great read; we teared up. (WNYC)
Have any friends or acquaintances who have just recently found themselves delving into the geek world? This is a great post on how to “Feed and Care for a New Geek.” (GeekFemme)
Jezebel delved into the wonderfully weird world of Olympic swimming fan fiction. Phlochte is a big hit.
This is a strangely beautiful piece on what it’s like to live life “on” the internet. (Gizmodo):

I feel them breathing against the glass, hear their whispered snippets and spin them back through my own keyboard. We’re all looking into a different window of the same house, watching the same family have dinner, and yet we yell out to each other about it, around its corners or from its second floor, like its something one of us might have missed. We spend days on couches or at desks looking into (or out at?) a universe, still and stationary in our own. Noses pressed to the screens, wondering how the green beans taste.

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http://profile.yahoo.com/5ZXIEGCAFZ4F7LBI6QTTN3YJCY Ashe

Wow. That story about the man hearing music for the first time…hits me especially hard. My mother’s deaf, ever since birth, due to her mother getting the German Measles while she was pregnant. Her life was made even more difficult by an ignorant family that refused to learn sign language, treated her like a lesser human being and often blamed her for things she couldn’t help, like learning a bit slower or talking ‘funny’.

Hearing aids never did a thing for her. Could be the technology she had decades ago, shitty doctors (there was a real gem of a man who didn’t believe my mother was deaf because she ‘spoke too well’), etc. But this makes me wonder, and hope, just a little. My mother has often said she wished she could hear. Maybe someday she can.
http://www.facebook.com/Travis.K.Fischer Travis Kyle Fischer

Probably not a good sign that I had to use the process of elimination to identify Griffendor.
Anonymous

Ooh, I’m glad I’m a Ravenclaw.