March 2010
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“No one has the right to live without being shocked. No one has the right to...”
– Philip Pullman (via kavalierandclay)
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Watchodayaka:
Did you know Sean Lennon has the coolest talk show EVER!
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More ideas than time: Logarithmic calendar view
marco:
I’ve been sitting on this idea forever, but the chances that I’ll ever do anything with it are close enough to zero that I’m letting it go. (It’s not original, either, but it has yet to make it into a widespread calendar product.)
The basic premise is obvious: Calendar software overdoes the metaphor and carries too much baggage from its physical-object predecessor.
I find myself always...
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“It’s hard to know what “selling out” means — these days you can make more money...”
– Banksy in Time Out London (via homeofthevain)
“One answer is psychological distance. According to the construal level theory...”
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An Easy Way to Increase Creativity
Scientific American
“sometimes finding the perfect metaphor is like trying to balance a muffin on a...”
– Joe Randazzo
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To Marke and Zachary
everyoneelseisupstairs:
I point my finger at both of you! damn you and your obsession for DFW! now everytime I walk into a bookstore I have to ask about him and the only book they have is Consider The Lobster and it’s waaaaaaaaaaaay too expensive for me to even think about buying it. so I blame you both for making me need to read him, cause you’re the ones that are constantly quoting him in your...
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“As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome,...”
– David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
the metaphorical richness of the word “tourist” has made it a new favorite epithet of mine; as in, e.g. “you write like a tourist” or “this piece smells like emotional tourism.”
I don’t say these things out loud....
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“Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you’re standing in...”
– TOM FORD (via goombi)
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“Je n’ai pas besoin de cette hypothèse.”
– Pierre-Simon de Laplace, 1827
upon showing his working model of the solar system to Napoleon, who asked why the figure of god did not appear in it.
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kentrock:
Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
NEW,...
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431. Never gift a paperback.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
