February 2012
Capitol Couture: EXCLUSIVE: RODARTE’S TRENDS FOR... →
capitolcouture:
EXCLUSIVE: RODARTE’S TRENDS FOR UPCOMING OPENING CEREMONIES
With the Opening Ceremonies for the 74th Hunger Games looming large on the horizon, Capitol Couture’s staff has been working overtime trying to get citizens a sneak peek at the collections being assembled by some of the Capitol’s…
Life imitating fiction imitating life. On Tumblr.
Pretty sure the political...
“So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of...”
– Neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists believe a hurried morning kills creativity. (from @rivanathans)
This is how I start my mornings. I’m so lucky.
“We took some time to let a thousand flowers bloom,” Mr. Woodhouse said. “And...”
– Obama Campaign on Lookout for Romney Flubs - NYTimes.com
If I were Brad Woodhouse, I’d avoid quoting Communists. Teeheehee.
Epitaph
Wisława Szymborska, 1923 - 2012
Here lies, old-fashioned as parentheses,
the authoress of verse. Eternal rest
was granted her by earth, although the corpse
had failed to join the avant-garde, of course.
The plain grave? There’s poetic justice in it,
this ditty-dirge, the owl, the burdock. Passerby,
take out your compact Compu-Brain and try
to weigh Szymborska’s fate for half a...
“Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views...”
– Emerson, via David Chang talking about bo ssäm.
January 2012
One man's dream: threatened by grief, saved by...
theamericannow:
By Neal Karlen (1.27.2012)
RALEIGH, N.C. — Today, political morticians of most every genus are finishing their dissections of this week’s State of the Union Address. Yes, the conventional wisdom now conventionally goes, Obama occasionally played political chess. Yet more seriously, he seemed to have confronted the quandary of whether or not the American Dream of owning a home,...
“A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to the child who dreams beyond...”
– President Obama (via apsies)
The 8 Worst Fonts In The World | Co.Design →
Future Timelines: The Wiki →
future-timelines:
2035 - A research group in Wales create bacteria in the lab that form crystals which resonate with radio frequency.
2041 - The same group demonstrates that they can modify a percentage of the glia in a mouse brain to resonate with RF, opening up the possibility for biological radio…
Followed!
“The variety show airs on Lunar New Year’s Eve — Jan. 22 this year...”
– China’s Biggest TV Event Will Have 800M Viewers, but No Ads | AdAge China: Breaking News - Advertising Age
“CCP meets Las Vegas” YES
“If you tell them that they can get a book with sex in it for free, that might be...”
– How To Get Kids To Read? Give Them Banned Books | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
#humannature
“Yes, it crosses the Rubicon of universal access to private health care. But...”
– Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast
Word.
It's Time To Start Judging Nonprofits Like... →
No one would judge a for-profit company for spending on advertising, sourcing the best hires, or using the best equipment. Indeed, these are points that a wise investor looking for long-term stability should seek out in a for-profit. This constant pressure that nonprofits feel from both their mission-driven world and the donor landscape toward minimizing anything that could be counted as...
bitsbobsandbeats:
SOUNDTRACK TO MY DAY // Dead...
Making murder respectable →
longformorg:
On the utility of euphemisms:
In the upper reaches of the British establishment, euphemism is a fine art, one that new arrivals need to master quickly. “Other Whitehall agencies” or “our friends over the river” means the intelligence services (American spooks often say they “work for the government”). A civil servant warning a minister that a decision would be “courageous” is...
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Kindle Reading List
Or, how woefully behind I am in my reading *ashamed*
In no particular order:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Northhanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
Girl with a Dragon Tattoo trilogy, by Stieg Larsson
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino
Invisible...
“Electronics were created for making electricity move around in interesting ways....”
– Heh.
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