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the humble graveyard where good intentions go to be pinned and forgotten
means A board made of cork, hung on a wall, onto which you pin notes, photos, reminders, and other bits of paper using thumbtacks.
from A plain compound of "cork" + "board." Cork itself comes via Spanish "alcorque" (a cork-soled shoe), ultimately from Latin "quercus," oak — though the cork we tack into comes specifically from the bark of the cork oak. The pinnable surface earns its name because cork's spongy, cellular structure grips a tack and quietly heals the hole behind it, making it the ideal material for a wall you stab daily.
- actual cork
- Harvested from bark of cork oak trees
- self-healing
- Pinholes close because cork cells refill with air
- detective uniform
- No murder board is complete without red string
- renewable bark
- Cork oaks regrow harvested bark every nine years
- sound trick
- Cork's air pockets quietly absorb noise too
bulletin board at moma — museum's iconic cork-lined notice board displaying exhibitions and announcements since 1929
dorm room corkboard trend — ubiquitous in us college dorms since 1980s for pinning photos, notes, and posters