February 2012
Feb 10th
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“Fucking t-shirts how do they work?”
– Slogan I submitted to threadless I cannot believe only 10% liked this. Sigh.
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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“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)
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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“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)
Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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“Because you know what’s going to happen now, don’t you? A fucking supermarket...”
– Awesome. Read GIRAFFE BREAD for context.
Feb 3rd
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“Data” has become the default word used to describe the constantly generated,...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com (via porcupineschool)
Feb 2nd
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“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)
Feb 1st
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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...
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
– Dr. Suess
Jan 23rd
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Jan 18th
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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.’
Jan 18th
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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...
Jan 17th
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.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.
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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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...
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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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...
Jan 7th
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Jan 5th
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Jan 4th
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“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)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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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)
Dec 18th
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