January 2011
30 posts
Jan 31st
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URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST IN EGYPT. PLEASE...
roxanneritchi: [via] “To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is news that even...
Jan 31st
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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“And the secrecy of it! The blessed privacy! No-one else can get in the way,...”
– Philip Pullman (via tinylittleeyes)
Jan 28th
Court rules that Dungeons & Dragons mimics and... →
Really? The game of harmless, socially awkward nerds “threatens prison security”?
Jan 27th
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“Computer programming is tremendous fun. Like music, it is a skill that derives...”
– Larry O’Brien (via uberfunktion)
Jan 27th
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The inverse power of praise. →
I grew up being told I was smart. And yesterday I had a complete meltdown and almost didn’t apply to the internship of my dreams because I was so afraid that I might be rejected.
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Jan 21st
“since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will...”
– A poem by e. e. cummings. I recently picked up a copy of Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems anthology, where I rediscovered this gem (among others).  I know a lot of people seem to think that poets (and especially cummings) are out of touch with culture, or that poetry is pretentious, or...
Jan 20th
WatchWatch
Normally I favor Jon Stewart over Stephen Colbert, but this was spot on. I know you think this story has no purpose other than keeping Sarah Palin’s name in the headlines for another news cycle. I know you think she has nothing to offer the national dialogue and that her speeches are just coded talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a thesaurus. I know you think...
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Jurassic Park theme, 1000% slower. →
This is seriously incredible.
Jan 18th
“All species of fish sound much more bad ass and much more impractical if you add...”
– Epic wisdom of Dante Sheperd.
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Sign #841 that something is seriously wrong with... →
Jan 14th
People of stone reside in the ocean. →
There’s something unearthly and wonderful about this.  Having said that, if I stumbled across any of these while swimming, I would probably be frozen less in awe and more in terror.
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the...”
– Carl Sagan
Jan 10th