December 2008
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“Being a meta-physicist is awesome and it isn’t even hard. Newton discovered...”
– The Triumph of Bullshit: Brant Charles’s Commencement Speech To MIT
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Brave New World of Digital Intimacy  →
insuchaworld: plsj: “This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This was never...
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Joy Division Central →
Whatever I thought I was going to get when I clicked the link, it was not this…
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3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
coffeehousejunkie: liz: superamit: susanbuck: elspethjane: expectoomuch: 1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn...
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“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches...”
– Alice in Wonderland via
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'Internet addiction' idea built on foundations of... →
psychotherapy: A study just published in the journal CyberPsychology and Behavior has reviewed all of the available scientific studies on internet addiction and found them to be mostly crap. And not just slightly crap, really pretty awful. To quote from the research summary: The analysis showed that previous studies have utilized inconsistent criteria to define Internet addicts, applied...
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“There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been...”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
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Microsoft Internet Explorer users told to switch... →
Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer have been warned of a flaw that could let hackers gain access to their computers and steal personal data, and told them to swap to a rival browser. No gloating here, just spreading the word…
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whileyouwereout: brocatus: Stickers made by whileyouwereout. Brilliant! I would like some… Would make a great t-shirt as well… Thanks!!! I saw on your website you live/work near my office. Come by and I’ll give you a set. The t-shirt is actually being made now, looks like the picture.  Cool; I will! Email me (it’s on the site) for a date/time and we’ll call it the first...
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Disaster, Art, Life
mills: Although few like to admit it, Walker Percy’s observation about disaster is largely true: in our era of contented tranquility, superabundance, and fading value systems, we tend to crave catastrophe as a source of meaning. We may noisily declaim that this economic collapse is terrible, that this or that hurricane or fire or administration is so horrific that we’ve lost our faith in...
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“There’s an urban legend that’s gone around until no one is sure who it happened...”
– From an article in this week’s Page Six Magazine (not yet online), that looks at Murray’s recent forays into Brooklyn house parties and wonders aloud if he is going through a mid-life crisis. (via caro, chfdigital) (via jstn) This is easily and far and away the best New York urban legend ever. (via...
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“I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say that God is eminently...”
– Baruch Spinoza. (via dailymeh)
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“to get the most out of you sleep, make sure you go to bed before midnight...”
– the science of sleep (translated from mandarin) As Yet; still Untitled: ahhh, that’s the secret via standardgrey
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You cannot make this stuff up.
ronenreblogs: “the crescent Moon will eclipse Venus and, if you watch the Moon at sunset through binoculars, you will see an occultation of Venus by the Moon” BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Smiling skyMeanwhile in other moonrelated news…
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