July 2010
34 posts
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“more important, it’s about realizing that your budget — whether high or low —...”
– Three Things I’ve Learned About Frugal Travel (and the Things I Didn’t Do)
Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
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“It was the conversation.”
– American Drink | “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a bartender…”
Jul 27th
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Jul 26th
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“College graduates are setting foot in the real world for the very first time....”
– Your New College Graduate: A Parents’ Guide : The New Yorker
Jul 25th
“It concerned him not in the least that things had always been done a certain way...”
– Buckminster Fuller: The Dymaxion Man
Jul 24th
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Jul 23rd
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs on The Next Insanely Great Thing (1996)
Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
511 notes
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“We are all poets now.”
– Does poetry matter? by Gregory Cowles (via Sahar, thanks!)
Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
11 notes
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The World of Tomorrow
alexislloyd: An excerpt from E.B. White’s New Yorker essay, “The World of Tomorrow”, in which he responds to the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair. His thoughts are not only beautifully articulated in classic E.B. White style, but the questions and concerns he raises have a great deal of relevance in our current approaches to technology and our always-connected lives. The countryside...
Jul 18th
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“darkly funny, deeply conflicted, politically pugnacious and, mostly, honest.”
– Harvey Pekar Was A Person In Your Neighborhood : NPR
Jul 17th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 15th
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Why CNN Firing Octavia Nasr for Tweeting About... →
This incident is also distressing because CNN was essentially caving into a black/white, us vs. them, good vs. absolute evil view of the world. Because the United States had labeled Fadlallah a “terrorist,” expressing any sort of positive comment about him was a firing offense. But the real world is more complicated than that: people who support some good things sometimes embrace bad...
Jul 14th
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Jul 13th
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“Man, I’m sorry. I switched sides. I had to do it. I needed the money.”
– Chilling Effects on Barataria Bay
Jul 12th
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Jul 11th
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“It is the powerful language of resistance; it is the dialect of common sense. It...”
– Walt Whitman, quoted by Robert McCrum of the Observer in the Economist’s debate on the English Language
Jul 9th
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Jul 8th
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“In a changing and churning world, you are an anchor for our age”
– UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes Queen Elizabeth II before the General Assembly
Jul 7th
“in the long run, banality does much more harm than outspokenness.”
– Too much of it about: McChrystal and the dangers of speaking platitudes | The Economist
Jul 6th
“These days anybody who can spell the word “synergy” can garner a reputation as a...”
– Norman Macrae: An unacknowledged giant | The Economist
Jul 5th
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Jul 4th
“The painstaking craftsmanship of a pre-Gutenberg Bible was evidence of a society...”
– On Distraction by Alain de Botton, City Journal
Jul 3rd
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Jul 2nd
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“newsies considered all the talk about poverty, enviro dessecration etc, merely...”
– NOW Toronto: Will there be violence at the G20?
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June 2010
32 posts
Jun 30th
Jun 30th
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“if you wrote a letter or directive in the Braun Company telling somebody to do...”
– Y Combinator: Elementary Worldly Wisdom
Jun 29th
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Jun 28th
“If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into...”
– Jim Coudal does Design Glut
Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
“This is a strange way for an animal to spend its days.”
– The Pleasures of Imagination
Jun 25th
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“It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.”
– Steve Jobs on The Next Insanely Great Thing
Jun 23rd
Jun 21st
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“he dined with life-size French boudoir dolls and insisted that the wait ers...”
– World-Class Hotel | Geist
Jun 20th
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Jun 19th
17 notes
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“If I were a couple decades younger, I’m not sure I could still experience the...”
– I Walked the Brooklyn Bridge Without Facebook - Tweetage Wasteland
Jun 18th
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Jun 17th
34 notes
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“There’s a level of travel that you can achieve wherein you almost cease to exist...”
– (via jhnmyr) On my to-do list this summer.  (via thetrapezeswinger)
Jun 16th
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