November 2009
54 posts
“he doesn’t actually cherish the concept of illusion. Watching him and the...”
– Why do kids crave magic? - By Emily Bazelon in Slate Magazine
“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide...”
– Cormac McCarthy on The Road
Watchenjoy : ‘kaze wo atsumete’: http://mag.ma/jeeves/214055 [video]
Watch(If you ask me, the real action is in the last 5 minutes.)
Cameron Carpenter’s dizzying improv on the organ [video]
“This is why you should be president.”
– Barack Obama’s Work in Progress
“I am frightened of pastry. So, for my own post-soviet shithole Thanksgiving, I...”
– carpetblogger on Stop Being a Wuss: How To Make Pie Crusts the Easy Way | The Awl
“I tell people that he is so morally superior to me that I feel foolish...”
– Cormac McCarthy on The Road
“Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly. Being...”
– Much like infectious diseases themselves — beaten back by decades of effort to vaccinate the populace — the irrational lingers just below the surface, waiting for us to let down our guard.
An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | Wired
“Gouging and exploiting may be perfect for humiliating your siblings, but...”
– Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
Watch Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin, 2008)
“Microsoft Research is one of the best funded and best staffed in the industry....”
– 7 Reasons Why Microsoft Should Make PCs — Datamation
Walt Whitman Thinks You Need New Jeans →
WatchSummer sessions
“Nevertheless,” he says bravely, “let us try and make bureaucracy...”
– Charles Landry at Creative Places and Spaces
“tinged with humanity, irony is not such a bad thing.”
– The Economist
“sweet band playing in front of check cashing place.”
– Street Corner Disaster - The Bold Italic - San Francisco
“The way we manage the global agriculture and food security system doesn’t work”
– Kostas G. Stamoulis
“Our education failure is the largest contributing factor to the decline of the...”
– argued Martin, a former global executive with PepsiCo and Kraft Europe and now an international investor. “This loss of competitiveness has weakened the American worker’s production of wealth, precisely when technology brought global competition much closer to home. So over a decade, American...
“Good manners are good and well, but I’d be better preparing her for the...”
– Alpha Mummy
The only two Westerners living on their own in... →
“I have eight Taliban with weapons in a car who say that they want to come to the shrine. What should we do with them?” the policeman asked. “Let them come!” the government official replied. “They’re probably just coming to enjoy the music. Who are we to stop them?” So they came. And nobody sitting there in the desert seemed the least bit worried.”
“I have eight Taliban with weapons in a car who say that they want to come to the...”
– The only two Westerners living on their own in Kandahar reveal what they’ve learned about the war in Afghanistan | Foreign Policy
Calvin Trillin’s Theory « The Baseline Scenario →
the financial crisis was caused by smart people going to work on Wall Street. In the old days, the story goes, it was the lower third of the class that went to Wall Street, and “by the standards that came later, they weren’t really greedy. They just wanted a nice house in Greenwich and maybe a sailboat. A lot of them were from families that had always been on Wall Street, so they were accustomed...
“We have to move from a culture that values creativity as display to a culture...”
– Alanna Jones of Artscape, quoted by Richard Florida at Creative Places and Spaces: Day One - Torontoist
A Smarter (and Cost-Efficient) Way to Fight Crime →
“When crime rates are high, spreading existing law enforcement resources equally among all potential offenders guarantees that any specific offense is unlikely to be punished. That leads to a vicious cycle of further increases in crime and further strains on law enforcement. Mr. Kleiman’s proposal to publicly announce a strategic priority enforcement list would create positive feedback loops...
Speech Training: Learning to Deliver English... →
imagine when all Japanese tourists and immigrants start to sound like Obama.
“We are Russian citizens and it is not our place to know the truth.”
– Vexed voyage
“Misery doesn’t love just any kind of company, it loves only miserable company.”
– Stanley Schachter (via)
