April 2010
35 posts
Apr 30th
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“Maybe it’s wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying...”
– The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs : The New Yorker
Apr 29th
7 tags
Apr 28th
3 tags
“Imagine you fall off a boat out in the open ocean, and you turn around, and the...”
– Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again - NYTimes.com
Apr 27th
6 tags
WatchWatch
The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
Apr 26th
4 tags
“It’s about all the gradual erosion of moments once set aside for personal...”
– I Walked the Brooklyn Bridge Without Facebook - Tweetage Wasteland
Apr 25th
3 tags
Apr 24th
203 notes
1 tag
“There should be a term - there probably is a term - for nostalgia for something...”
– In Which We Request A Do-Over On This Last Decade - This Recording
Apr 23rd
26 notes
Apr 22nd
“But Seymour was “all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our...”
– Salinger’s obituary in The Economist
Apr 21st
4 tags
Apr 20th
43 notes
3 tags
“The best you can hope for is that other people won’t thwart your efforts...”
– Scott Adams on the Happiness Button
Apr 19th
8 tags
Apr 19th
14 notes
6 tags
A world without planes →
They were not being perverse, only aware that if one of our key motives for travelling is to try to put the past behind us, then we often need something very large and time-consuming, like the experience of a month long journey across an ocean or a hike over a mountain range, to establish a sufficient sense of distance.
Apr 19th
1 tag
“paradoxically, despite being the owners, [bigger, more-mobile shareholders] have...”
– Free Market Protectionism : Cambridge Professor Ha-Joon Chang on the limits of capitalism. in The New York Review of Ideas
Apr 18th
Apr 17th
30 notes
Apr 16th
2 tags
Apr 15th
2,399 notes
3 tags
Apr 14th
499 notes
“Can you imagine a better reform? Sure. … But an ideal plan isn’t on the table....”
– Paul Krugman
Apr 14th
3 tags
“This was the weekend those of us with high standards lost their remaining...”
– Joe Clark on iPad critics: Denial of expertise via daringfireball
Apr 13th
1 tag
Apr 12th
Apr 11th
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“Cognitive psychologists have found that there is a trade-off between attentional...”
– The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs : The New Yorker
Apr 10th
3 tags
Apr 9th
5 tags
“if you have an object in your pocket or hand for hours every day, then your...”
– Stephen Fry on the iPad
Apr 8th
Apr 7th
7 tags
“Well it’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle”
– … although it is perhaps our fault for turning their city into a battlefield WikiLeaks via Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic see also The Economist’s take
Apr 6th
3 tags
Apr 6th
138 notes
1 tag
“There’s something serene and reassuring about the BBC’s news...”
– Gizmodo reports on day-one iPad optimised applications
Apr 6th
2 tags
“We need to be visionaries again.”
– Tim Siedell: A Simple Plan to Fix the American Political System Using Common Sense and a Little Dinosaur DNA
Apr 5th
“the goal was to keep today’s science from screwing up the science of...”
– Protecting Earth and space from people - Boing Boing
Apr 4th
Apr 3rd
“I don’t want to be labelled a victim. I’m determined not to become a...”
– ‘They like us naive’: How teenage girls are groomed for a life of prostitution by UK gangs
Apr 2nd
Apr 1st