February 2012
“Fucking t-shirts how do they work?”
– Slogan I submitted to threadless I cannot believe only 10% liked this. Sigh.
“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels...”
– Excerpt from Generation of Swine - Hunter S. Thompson (via criminalwisdom)
“You don’t blast a heart open,” she said. “You coax and nurture it open, like the...”
– Melody Beattie, The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take (via her0inchic)
“Because you know what’s going to happen now, don’t you? A fucking supermarket...”
– Awesome. Read GIRAFFE BREAD for context.
“Data” has become the default word used to describe the constantly generated,...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com (via porcupineschool)
“If he is a good designer the form he invents will penetrate the problem so...”
– Notes on the synthesis of form - Christopher Alexander - Google Books (via slantback)
January 2012
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov
anthropophagous: I don’t really think that this is anti-intellectualism as a blanket thing, so much as valuation of certain kinds of knowledge over others / the idea that intellectuals are somehow disengaged from the world / anti-intellectualism as a shroud for other kinds of bigotry...
“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...
.fw-box-treewithoutheader-header { display: none;...
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)