January 2010
53 posts
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“Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the...”
– Edward Sapir via Daily Meh
“as if giving two shits about the world has gotten crushed under the boot sole of...”
– The Death of Fiction? | Mother Jones
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“He seems sad. Regretful. As much as determined. — And admitted to mistakes. —...”
– STEVE COLL, REBECCA MEAD, JOSEPH SCAREESHO Live Chat: State of the Union: News Desk : The New Yorker
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“Ironic distance from his own campaign. Kind of amazing.”
– STEVE COLL: Live Chat: State of the Union: News Desk : The New Yorker
“Obama: acknowledging people’s anger and the justice of it, but always drawing...”
– James Surowiecki of the New Yorker on President Barack Obama’s 2010 State of the Union
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“Over the past few minutes he’s been effectively tapping into his own...”
– The state of a presidency | The Economist
“raising your hand is itself a high-cost signal that you are willing to risk...”
– A Rant About Women « Clay Shirky
“it is cheaper to buy a judge than to hire a lawyer.”
– Corruption in Afghanistan: It’s Even Worse Than You Think | Mother Jones
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“Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by...”
– Rose George: How to Save the World With Sanitation
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“Their temporality is truncated.”
– What’s Wrong with the Culture of Wall Street? —from the perspective of an anthropologist.
“I don’t start writing until I’m sure I’m right”
– Peter Shellem, Investigative Reporter Who Wrote About Wrongful Convictions, Dies at 49 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
“She has, in effect, trained the humans.”
– Why dolphins are deep thinkers
“How can we use climate change as a challenge that we can pick up and run with...”
– David Buckland at Creative Places + Spaces: Collaborate or Die
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So Heidegger And This Hippo Go To Heaven … →
an interview with Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, who previously came up with Plato and a Platypus Walked Into a Bar … a couple of years ago. (audio and transcript, interviewed by Liane Hansen on NPR)
“Crises have the power to bring out the best in people”
– George W. Bush & Bill Clinton : A Helping Hand for Haiti
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“This is a culture that’s invisible to the naked eye, but that is incredibly...”
– A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter: Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?
(by John Colapinto in The New Yorker)
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Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
Joel: I Know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.
“They were nothing but strangers”
– Annals of Gastronomy: Don’t Mention It : The New Yorker
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“typography affects anyone with sight. It’s both art and plumbing”
– The Digital Ramble | Typography - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com
“the embodiment of the fully emancipated male, perhaps the only one in America,...”
– Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
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“The Future is never about the most practical and useful outcome, it’s about...”
– Kickingbear: Software Sea Change
“What the President has is a sophisticated theology, an anti-utopian belief that...”
– Peace and War : The New Yorker
“A willingness to pay for other people’s services and benefits rests upon...”
– What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? - The New York Review of Books
“The city was so big, now, that people disappeared into it unnoticed”
– Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons.
Kaplan - Was Democracy Just a Moment
“We’re building the railroads of the future, and we can’t keep up”
– Demand for Data Puts Engineers in Spotlight - NYTimes.com
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“Was there a golden age for international correspondents? Are current affairs now...”
– The lost art of reportage (audio) - The Independent
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“Now, we’re not designing an artifact, but designing to shape conversations.”
– Liz Danzico quoted in The New York Review of Ideas
Black, White and Read Online: Can Khoi Vinh save The New York Times?
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“In the parlance of the moment, this is called ‘design thinking.’”
– Can Design Thinking Solve Your Problems and Make You Happier?