April 2011
3 posts
Yet another example why dogs are awesome.
THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
January 2011
8 posts
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
– John Lennon (via kari-shma)
This to That (Glue Advice) →
mamacissy: Fanstastically useful site.
Thirst for knowledge...
Oh no; I’m a bad hostess to my book stacks!
catalogliving:
Gary, will you see if the stack of books would like a refill?
December 2010
4 posts
What They Know - Mobile - WSJ →
“Your Apps Are Watching You” links to this page where you can chick out which apps collect what data, what they pass on and to whom.
Hipster Racism →
“As hipster racism has become more widespread, it’s also crept into more general society. Racist content appears in films and television shows, disguised as “satire,” it’s on the cover of major magazines, it’s in the pages of respectable newspapers. While explicit racism is viewed as socially unacceptable, racism disguised as irony or satire is evidently perfectly acceptable, especially if...
November 2010
2 posts
October 2010
7 posts
2012 Mayan apocalypse calculation might be off →
“A fresh look at the Mayan-to-Gregorian calendar conversion suggests that the world might not actually come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. In fact, researchers say that it might have ended already.”
Marge Piercy →
The Low Road
What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
They can set you up, they can
bust you, they can break
your fingers, they can
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can t walk, can’t remember, they can
take your child, wall up
your lover. They can do anything
you can’t blame them
from doing. How can you stop
them? Alone, you can fight,
you can refuse,...
Loaves and Fishes
This is not the age of information.
This is not the age of information.
Forget the news, and the radio, and the blurred screen.
This is the time of loaves and fishes.
People are hungry and one good word is bread for a thousand.
— David Whyte
from The House of Belonging ©1996 Many Rivers Press
September 2010
15 posts
Librarians Assemble to Read the Qur’an on Steps of... →
“Free people read freely… That is a fundamental principle of the American Constitution and a basic mission of public libraries. We don’t burn books, we read them.”
“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, acceptance for renomination for presidency, 1936 (via apsies)
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits →
eightyeightmph:
“The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious. It colors the terms of the Versailles Treaty with the wasted fluorescent glow of the dorm study room, say; or the elements of the Marshall Plan with the jade-curtain shade of the willow tree in...
Robert Reich - The Real Lesson of Labor Day →
THE Great Depression and its aftermath demonstrate that there is only one way back to full recovery: through more widely shared prosperity. In the 1930s, the American economy was completely restructured. New Deal measures — Social Security, a 40-hour work week with time-and-a-half overtime, unemployment insurance, the right to form unions and bargain collectively, the minimum wage — leveled the...
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that...”
– Nelson Mandela | (via on-etait-libre)
“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.”
– Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook (via ratak-monodosico, quinnisarose & Crashingly Beautiful) (via arsvitaest) (via signa) (via takemetotheplaceilove)
If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses – Part... →
I love this!
Watchwalkwhilereading: Ron Charles of the Washington Post reviews Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. It’s funny and well thought out, it’s worth a watch.
Letters - Shock and Foie →
“But it’s a mistake to confuse success in a political campaign with being on the right side of an issue.”
I never thought I’d ever post a letter that supports consumption of foie gras (or at least the right to choose foie gras), but this is so much more than that—and incredibly well written.
August 2010
22 posts
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
– Charles Evans Hughes
“Far away is only far away if you don’t go there.”
– O. Povo
Ode Magazine : "'Yes, and' people invent the... →
A mosque near ground zero? →
comic from Tom Tomorrow at Salon
some things i wanted to say to you
beenthinking:measart:
if the horse that you ride
is blind it’s good
that it also be slow,
and please stroke it
a hundred more times than you would
the powerful dazzling one.
to be generous is one thing,
but there’s a clerk in some of us,
quick to say yes.
worry about the command
in the suggestion.
worry about smiles, and those men
whose business is business.
there are joys and...
Print is not dead - libraries booming →
Good news in San Francisco.
Chimeric Whimsy →
How did I not know that my sister has some of her marvelous ink drawings up on a website? Go look these wonderful, whimsical drawings. I can’t wait until she has something for sale!
“If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium,...”
– Tom Robbins (via oceanofmind)
After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now... →
thebronzemedal:
From McSweeney’s:
What concerned us most about The Newspaper was its lack of Wi-Fi. Eventually, however, we found this advantage to be overstated, even misleading. Engineers using The Newspaper typically did so 30 to 60 minutes a day. Afterward, they went outside, formed relationships, and took in what life had to offer. Those using Wi-Fi-enabled e-readers tended to stay on the...
Be prepared...
catalogliving:
Elaine got the feeling that Gary planned to stay in the bathroom for a long time.