July 2010
37 posts
“a great black smear of poison destroying coastal ecosystems and the livelihoods...”
– Oil Leak Could Transform Repairmen Into Superheroes | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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The Pleasures of Imagination →
psychotherapy:
How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you. The most common voluntary activity is not eating, drinking alcohol, or taking drugs. It is not socializing with friends, participating in sports, or relaxing with the family. While people sometimes describe sex as their most pleasurable act, time-management studies find that the average American adult...
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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)
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“It was the conversation.”
– American Drink | “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a bartender…”
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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
“It concerned him not in the least that things had always been done a certain way...”
– Buckminster Fuller: The Dymaxion Man
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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)
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“We are all poets now.”
– Does poetry matter? by Gregory Cowles
(via Sahar, thanks!)
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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...
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“darkly funny, deeply conflicted, politically pugnacious and, mostly, honest.”
– Harvey Pekar Was A Person In Your Neighborhood : NPR
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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...
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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
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“Just when you finally figure out what you’re doing in the world, you have to...”
– The Rumpled Anarchy of Bill Murray - The New York Times
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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
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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
“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
“These days anybody who can spell the word “synergy” can garner a reputation as a...”
– Norman Macrae: An unacknowledged giant | The Economist
“The painstaking craftsmanship of a pre-Gutenberg Bible was evidence of a society...”
– On Distraction by Alain de Botton, City Journal
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“newsies considered all the talk about poverty, enviro dessecration etc, merely...”
– NOW Toronto: Will there be violence at the G20?
