January 2012
“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
– Dr. Suess
How long does the average share holding last? Just... →
shadowfirebird:
‘The consensus suggest that investors dabbling shares should be in it for the long-term, yet the average holding is less than a minute thanks to computer driven ‘high frequency’ trading.’
Douglas Coupland on coincidence and déja vu →
I take comfort in the fact that there are two human moments that seem to be doled out equally and democratically within the human condition—and that there is no satisfying ultimate explanation for either. One is coincidence, the other is déja vu. It doesn’t matter if you’re Queen Elizabeth, one of the thirty-three miners rescued in Chile, a South Korean housewife or a migrant herder in Zimbabwe—in...
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Actual CSS from a project I did a design for and that I now have to implement, following their CSS-structure / classnames. This is gonna take longer than it had to.
Interesting Experiment Using Capitalist Philosophy
anticapitalist:
My interpretation of that bullshit post about “Obama’s Socialism”
“An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Ron Paul’s libertarianism worked and that the free market would create prosperity
The professor then said, ‘OK, we will have an...
The Pirate Bay, everything is IRL but not AFK. →
When did you meet [fellow defendant Gottfrid] for the first time IRL?” asked the Prosecutor. “We do not use the expression IRL,” said Peter, “we use AFK.” “IRL?” questioned the judge. “In Real Life,” the Prosecutor explained to the judge. “We do not use that expression,” Peter noted. “Everything is in real life. We use AFK—Away From Keyboard.” “Well,” said Roswall. “It seems I am a little bit...
December 2011
“When we feel we can’t escape a system, we adapt. That includes feeling okay...”
– Why do people defend unjust, inept, and corrupt systems? (via slantback)
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“I don’t know if you know David Brower—one of the century’s foremost...”
– The Story of B by David Quinn (via steve-kim)
“My grandfather used to say: “Life is astonishingly short. Now, in my memory, it...”
– The complete story ‘The Next Village’ by Franz Kafka. I love these. As in they make me uncomfortable.
“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There’s no evidence...”
– Michael Chricton (via atomos)
November 2011
