February 2012
3 posts
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts,...”
– Shel Silverstein (via optionsoflife)
January 2012
15 posts
Crystal Castles - Celestica
remain silent and...
Two lessons from the MegaUpload seizure →
kateoplis:
Glenn Greenwald for Salon:
[M]any SOPA opponents were confused and even shocked when they learned that the very power they feared the most in that bill — the power of the U.S. Government to seize and shut down websites based solely on accusations, with no trial — is a power the U.S. Government already possesses and, obviously, is willing and able to exercise even against the world’s...
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via mylastnameisfan)
Whoa indeed.
(via fray)
The Joy of Quiet →
youmightfindyourself:
By PICO IYER NY Times Published: December 29, 2011
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside....
December 2011
13 posts
time flies when you're having fun.
it’s really hard to believe it’s Christmas again.
this has been a very quiet year for me in terms of writing/blogging. not including all the years i was away for college, this past year really felt like it was the first time i was away from home, the first time i was actually being an adult. I made a considerable effort to do away with a lot of old/bad habits, ultimately...
Bloc Party - Kreuzberg
i have decided, at 25
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“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine
November 2011
19 posts
HELL EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT →
pokedexter:
kimberlyluu:
rachhhiee:
-supjchwa:
the-absolute-funniest-posts:
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington Chemistry mid-term: The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well : Bonus Question: Is Hell...
wearecrystalcastles:
vivid—delusions:
Lovers...
Militarization of Campus Police →
chinitomiguelito:
leftcoastjane:
This UC Davis prof,
Bob Ostertag
Composer, historian, journalist, and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis
responds to the violence on the Davis campus, I saw it via OhPauline and alyson-noele, it appeared first in HuffPost.
alyson-noele:
Yesterday, police at UC Davis attacked seated students with a chemical gas.
I teach at UC Davis...
“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don’t swim in the same slough....”
– “No Leaders, Please” from The Pleasures of the Damned by Bukowski (via airplanes)
"Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for... →
thebookslut:
Yes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in country where rich owned factory and make 30 times what factory worker make. Now we live in country where rich make money by lying about value of derivative bonds and make 3000 times what factory worker would make if factories hadn’t all moved to China.
Capitalism great system. We won Cold War because people...
Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize →
youmightfindyourself:
Only a tiny fraction of the brain is dedicated to conscious behavior. The rest works feverishly behind the scenes regulating everything from breathing to mate selection. In fact, neuroscientist David Eagleman of Baylor College of Medicine argues that the unconscious workings of the brain are so crucial to everyday functioning that their influence often trumps conscious...
“A man`s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and...”
– Albert Einstein (via trxsxrms)
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ramicastrocortes:
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ZOMG. THE FUTURE.
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via emotional-algebra)
Blaming the Victims →
It’s like saying, if you’re not an NBA basketball superstar, you just didn’t try hard enough. The newest conservative rationale for shrugging off poverty is that everyone has the opportunity to be a Horatio Alger if they go to college. College graduates earn much more than high school graduates on average and have much lower unemployment rates in hard times. In a recent op-ed column in the...
“Love is in detachment from the strings that end up tying tighter than love was...”
– Ly De Angeles (via hellaproper)
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely...”
– Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)