February 2010
14 posts
Today, I read an MLIA about how if you put your... →
January 2010
74 posts
(608): the entire lecture hall sighed when the... →
(815): man i wonder what i would be like if i had... →
Pentagon to Reveal Plan to Repeal Don't Ask Don't... →
WatchElizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity
Boston Globe: 'Howard Zinn, historian who... →
“…For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. “A People’s History of the United States” (1980), his best-known book, had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers — many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out — but rather the farmers of Shays’ Rebellion...
“It’s a nice dream, and a common one: the shucking off of material possessions to...”
– Nicholas Carr (via chrbutler)
(203): I just figured I'd let u know that you... →
texts from last night
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I want a website that can make me a lot of money. Can you do that?”
Me: “Sure, what do you have in mind”
Client: “… one that can make me a lot of money…?”
Online music piracy 'destroys local music' →
infoneernet:
nerdology:
Countries like Spain run the risk of becoming “cultural deserts” because of online file-sharing, the music industry has claimed
An interesting read… though I’m not sure piracy is to blame here. More likely the trading of information through technology is the ‘culprit’ here. Just because Spain downloaded a lot of Lady Gaga illegally doesn’t mean that they then wouldn’t...
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which...”
– Plato: The Republic (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
Your Scene Sucks →
hipster/scenester portraits
“Sharing has become a reflex action when people find an interesting video, link...”
– ‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets) (via infoneernet)
haha huh whoa what? →
tried to reblog but since endless scrolling happened couldn’t find post arrgh
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sometimes i’m afraid of my computer
(703): I was so high I couldnt even listen to... →
My new, old highschool →
canned:
The place still has lost that gnome-like magic it use to have when I was still there. This is based off reports I have heard. Not worrying about things breaking on you will be a nice improvement for them. Congrats to the Woman who had the vision for all of this over 20 years ago.
I quite like it. Wish they’d finished it just a couple years sooner.
Annual Poll of Freshmen Shows Effect of Recession →
infoneernet:
The recession hit this year’s college freshmen hard, affecting how they chose a school as well as their ability to pay for it, according to an annual nationwide survey released Thursday.
Over all, students were more likely than previous freshmen to have a parent who was unemployed and less likely to have found a job that might help pay for college.
About two-thirds of incoming...
highasakite:
The Bran Flakes - “Mr. & Mrs...
The Meaning of Life →
“Reality…is a very plastic inkblot sort of thing…”
“It wouldn’t be the meaning of life if it were logically unassailable.”
The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford... →
Citing usage from 1949, the OED calls this mark the dog’s bollocks, which it defines as, “typogr. a colon followed by a dash, regarded as forming a shape resembling the male sexual organs.” This is why I love scrounging around the linguistic scrap heap that is the OED. I always come across a little gold. And by “gold,” I mean, “vulgar, 60-year-old emoticons.”
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If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online →
infoneernet:
The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day with such devices, compared with less than six and a half hours five years ago, when...
poemette
I fill your life with delicate joke I listen always when you spoke I careful always what you wrote I send you lifetime full of note
“I’ve stopped fretting, and that has made all the difference. When two...”
– my journal (Sunday, October 26, 2008)
“[In the early 1960s] I was noticing that things didn’t sound the same when you...”
– Terry Riley, quoted in K. Robert Schwarz, Minimalists. (via plundr) (via notational)
HIM: smelling like ass and being wet and naked is a total party fowl
ME: depends on the party
