http://flabbergastedly.com/?p=96 Brought to my attention by my pal Mike, (whose learned commentary is worth the jump, so I won’t even try to steal it), this page of anthropomorphised inanimate objects has vaulted onto my Top 5 Favourite Things on the Internets list*. *Not a real list.
Tag Archives: anthropomorphism
The Animal Self – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/magazine/22animal.html?ei=5070&en=4310ac193649ccfa&ex=1138165200&pagewanted=all Fascinating NYTimes article on how anthropomorphism is losing its pejorative stamp; animal behaviourism is now being looked in some labs at as the study of animal personalities, with unintentionally hilarious observations: “You don’t think of drosophila in that way,” Stamps told me. “They can be very territorial, and some of the males are fairly […]