October 2010
1 post
September 2010
5 posts
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow...”
– Margaret Atwood (via edjk)
http://davidmitchellwithpizza.tumblr.com/ →
Well, this pretty much does what it says on the box.
“In last week’s “Don’t buy it: Pokémon 2000 aims to inspire another spending...”
– My only real piece of hate mail, which, years later, I still find kind of heartbreaking
August 2010
15 posts
deep cut
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. an emotion you haven’t felt in years that you might have forgotten about completely if your emotional playlist hadn’t been left on shuffle—a feeling whose opening riff tugs on all your other neurons like a dog on a leash waiting for you to open the door.
Print's value is increasing with its scarcity. →
Never has the role of gate-keeper, of taste-maker, been more important than it is now. Print’s cost and limited carrying capacity forces curators to become editors; ruthless decisions actually get made.
What we thought we were paying for in newspapers was all the news that was in them. In fact, the main role of the newspaper was to decide what to leave out.
We need more of this today, not...
NEW LIFE
bluefugate:
On Sunday evening, I deleted Twitter and Tumblr off my phone, and besides for a five minute relapse this afternoon, they have stayed deleted. It was all just starting to feel too much like an eating disorder or like academic mania — being preoccupied with thoughts you don’t care about, compulsively seeking information that is at once overwhelming and boring, soliciting the approval...
“Just for the game of it,” Mr. Zimmer said, “all the music in the score is...”
– Hans Zimmer on the soundtrack to Inception. Perhaps not a movie of endless profundity, but still one that was, conceptually and narratively, one of the out and out coolest things cinema has done in a number of years.
lessonsforchildren:
This is the only gif you will ever need.
This is my friend Paul. He’s the one dancing between the muppets. I am so jealous I could vomit in rage.
““I don’t know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn’t come...”
– Christopher Hitchens on the rather questionable mental state of Hugo Chavez
On deleting Twitter
somethingchanged:
On Sunday evening, I deleted Twitter and Tumblr off my phone, and besides for a five minute relapse this afternoon, they have stayed deleted. It was all just starting to feel too much like an eating disorder or like academic mania — being preoccupied with thoughts you don’t care about, compulsively seeking information that is at once overwhelming and boring, soliciting the...
I know Paul Verhoeven. He interviewed Elmo. That... →
indefensible:
It’s the simple things, really.
July 2010
8 posts
“How secure is your password?”
– 252 days over here. Whew. Although the fact that the same password is used for pretty much every account I have online does concern me somewhat…
Apparently it would only take a PC 6 days to crack my password… I was hoping for the 700 year mark.
(via jasonchatfield)
“The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks...”
– Quite insane revelations from The Washington Post. A sterling effort of investigative journalism.
“Overwhelmed by curriculum standards, American teachers warn there’s no room in...”
– From this fascinating article on the teaching and practicalities of being ‘creative’
June 2010
25 posts
“Now that the sex lives of Supreme Court justices have become grist for...”
– Michael Kinsley, “Sex Lives of Supreme Court Justices” (via thetimelime, tart-tart)
SCALIA = SEX MANIAC.
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(via pegobry)
Dancing Alone to Pony →
This Tumblr is EXACTLY what you hope it’s going to be
selectric
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
adj. in the mood to get struck by lightning, to stand in an open field and be singled out and drafted by the universe because of your innate potential to resolve a battle between faceless titans roaring in the sky, a task which doesn’t require you to write a cover letter.
Connections →
That Steve Jobs quote on creativity is making the rounds again, and I think in the past I may have commented on it. What I want to say about it now is that, for me at least, it’s true. For me, the process of creativity is not about discovering a previously hidden gem. It’s about seeing two or more…
I wholeheartedly agree
Bernard Keane for Crikey.com.au →
When asked what proportion asylum seekers arriving by boat made up of Australia’s annual migration intake — an issue singled out as a key misperception by the Prime Minister last week — 10% of people believed it was 50% or more, 15% believed it was a quarter, and 13% believed it was 10%.
Even at…
This did my fragile little head in. Such woeful ignorance.
“It is impossible to know how much oil is spilled in the Niger delta each year...”
– Good lord. For those that thought the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was bad, this Guardian article on Nigerian oil catastrophes does not make for easy reading.
“Things are not always what they appear to be in this physical/astral dimension...”
– This guy definitely spends at least 50% of his time wearing hats made out of alfoil.
Shattering the Cube - Part 2