January 2010
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“Google doesn’t index design! I mean, stop and think about that for a minute:...”
– The future of designed content « Snarkmarket (via mjhoy)
This essay is tremendously thought-provoking.
Rather, it’s get you to imagine what blogs like those would look like if they bothered with bespoke design every day. I think it’s a super-interesting vision.
And it would be even more...
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“…But the history of thought has not dealt kindly with the doctrine of...”
– from page 22 Gödel’s Proof: Revised Edition, Ernest Nagel; James R. Newman, Edited and with a new foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
This book is tough going, given that I don’t remember even the rudimentary mathematical logic I had in high school, but once you ponder it out, it’s...
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Migraine [amk: On Pain]
mills:
I have occasion somewhat regularly to sit in intense pain and attempt to think. The psychically-disruptive effects of a migraine are fascinating: I find my mental space collapsing in on itself, my present occupying shorter and shorter spans of time. Phrases –often from songs I don’t listen to- repeat in a kind of punching staccato in my head, the words rearranging themselves, portions...
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“She knew, because she had held him, that he suffered DT’s. Behind the initials...”
– Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49. (via msodradek)
I read this a couple of years ago (it’s the least-intimidating Pynchon at a few hundred pages.) and I don’t remember this passage at all. Time to reread I guess.
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“So Hemingway wrote his first novel The Torrents of Spring, clocking in at under...”
– waait. why haven’t I heard of this before?
[via some shitty linkbait crap-blog. here]
See also: wikipedia page on the book here.
Set in northern Michigan in the mid-1920s The Torrents of Spring is about two World War I veterans, Yogi Johnson and writer Scripps O’Neill, both of whom...
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MegaMillions...
I always see the signs “$$$121 Million JACKPOT” scrawled on paper signs and taped up to the glass doors of delis, gas stations and convenience stores and I do what most of us do: day dream about what we’d do if we came into that kind of money. I’ve thought about this a lot, I can’t help but daydream.
So here’s a big part of what I’d do: start a non...
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How to Write a Passive Aggressive Note
ilovecharts:
via missglinda
what, do people think they need helping writing these sorts of notes or something? It seems to sort of just come naturally to me, like, not that you’re asking me or anything but I just sort of do it without trying. I could probably have taught you how to do this if you’d thought to ask. Not that I’m offended, I don’t really care about it...
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I am at this point unsure of the provenance of...
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“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better....”
– Thomas Carlyle (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover) now I’ll have to go read some Carlyle, but, can’t whoever put up this quotation but in a line about where it’s coming from? the context? is it just attributed to Carlyle or is it from an essay or poem or story?
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“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via rondamarie) (via dostoyevsky) (via enormousair) (via ironstring)
hoo yeah, the problems of communication, language, etc. etc.
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Tonight, on Jeopardy... →
natface:
YOU. Go to that link and sign up for the Adult or College online test — it’s in a few weeks! I’ve made it to the second round of both Adult and College, and it was a lot of fun (and fear) to do. I have a lot of links for how to study and good things to know, so hit me up if you’re interested.
I am certainly interested. I won’t do very well but would have fun giving it a try...
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Red Cross Raises $3,000,000+ for Haiti Through... →
mjhoy:
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melanyouth:
(via lucerovespertino):
Sweet.
And that was just $10 at a time - a testament to the power in numbers. Really amazing.
This is great to see. And on Tumblr at least, it inspired almost no smarmy comments about “self-righteousness”. These kind of comments always make me chuckle. What could be more self-righteous than implicitly suggesting that you are humble...
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The 31st Annual Science Fiction Marathon →
please give me a gallon of very hot coffee, a few packages of cinnamon gum, a lot of eye drops and a catheter. I’ve never seen either Gilliam’s Brazil or Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales. I’ve heard great things of the former and that the latter is not spectacular but likely to be of interest. Already planned on going before seeing the whole list of films just on principle...
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“Slow stair climb, as usual. This tower was quite tall and I noticed my cohorts...”
– again, from No Promise of Safety
[quote and photo pulled from here] The fish eye lens allows me to imagine you’re high up enough to see the earth curving below you. wonderful.
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FUCKYEAHFUGAZI →
There was a fuck yeah Mahler, but no FUCKYEAHFUGAZI. I fixed it, feel free to submit things. now it’s time to get out of work.
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Let's play "The Street Finds Its Own Uses For The... →
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Reblog with examples of covers that are better...
quittheband:
showerbeers:
foma:
abbikadabra:
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The Futureheads - Hounds of Love.
Over My Head - ADTR
Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
Bomb the Music Industry! - Ghost of Corporate Future
steinways - debra jean/i didnt get invited to the prom
The Melvins -Youth of America
The Undertones - Under the Boardwalk
Queens of the Stone Age - Wake up Screaming
Bullet LaVolta -...
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Watcherm, this is awesome.
via engadget.
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A Working Library - Ways of Reading →
just pulling one of these out, the rest are great too:
Reading must occur everyday, but it is not just any daily reading that will do. The day’s reading must include at minimum a few lines whose principle intent is to be beautiful—words composed as much for the sake of their composition as for the meaning they convey.
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On a Gillian Welch kick, have to track down the...
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