Reading and Language & The Weird Wide Web 24 Sep 2005 10:24 pm
Objects smaller than their names
It’s art; it’s taxonomy. It’s the Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects.
In introductory biology, Dr. Flora had the class declaim, “Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis!” and “Anthopleura elegantissima!”, instructing us to revel in the names’ beauty and complexity. Imagine if we’d had to cope with Nelifrag Buildistabscratch metalipointisharpebiggerlik or Onliwhol Parkecrecrawli yelosymmecruncunlik.
on 25 Sep 2005 at 4:38 pm 1.co149 said …
I could cry. But why, oh why are his classification charts stuck into a bigass gif?