December 2011
2 posts
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt (via abaldwin360)
November 2011
4 posts
“I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via jerzee55)
Watchshinyslingback:
Plot Against Time #1 (2007) (lower resolution excerpt) (by David Rokeby)
“Plot Against Time #1” captures the traces of pigeons and pedestrians on Venice’s Piazza San Marco. Each moving thing etches itself across the surface of the image in a golden hue which fades as time passes through a ruddy brown to pure black before dissolving into the background. Static objects in the...
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
17 posts
"You know you can freeze muffins in muffin pans...
Thanks tumblr. Sometimes I need reminded about the important stuff!
i-have-nightmares:
The email in which marseeah changes my life.
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STFU, Conservatives: Listen up bitches →
STFUConservatives - always worth reading. This post made me think. And shift my position - though not towards STFUc. The language of both sides is just wrong here. It’s not “men” who need to do anything. And definitely not “women”. It’s the 99% of men *and* women who find rape abhorrent, who find it unacceptable when defence lawyers attack the character of...
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via camh)
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The warning signs of defending the status quo
“When confronted with a new idea, do you:
Consider the cost of switching before you consider the benefits”
and a dozen more signs to keep an eye out for…
August 2011
21 posts
I *hate* texters/talkers/eaters in a movie
…so I *love* this
You cannot be ignorant of evolution and be an ......
“There is surely something wrong with a system for choosing a leader when, given a pool of such talent and a process that occupies more than a year and consumes billions of dollars, what rises to the top of the heap is George W Bush. Or when the likes of Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin can be mentioned as even remote possibilities.”
Richard Dawkins, telling it like it...
Forget left/right. It's you v corporations
Nailed.
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Watchtheatlantic:
Time Lapse of Night Sky Over London Riots
This time lapse of the night sky over Tottenham during the London riots shows helicopters, search lights, smoke, and flares all night before the sun finally begins to rise. U.K.-based culture blog itdrewitself shot the film on a Canon 7D, taking 2.5 second exposures every three seconds all night. Of the riots, they said, “Watching the...
‘Right up to the Creepy Line’
Eric Schmidt, back in 2010:
Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it… We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.
Seems like Google’s already crossed it.
via forkbomber
Browser options paralysis
So I love Safari 5.1, with its scrummy forward/back swipe, elegant full screen mode and double-finger-double-tap to optimise text size and ditch all the rubbish in side frames. Sweet. But memory hogging hell! And why in full screen does the address bad not disappear? I’m not using it, I’m reading. And separate url and search bars? Why? And while I’m at it, when I’m...
“The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when...”
– * * they are the caretakers of your reinvention * * Beautiful.
Colson Whitehead, “City Limits” (via meaghano)
I want to read this so bad. Does anyone know where it is published?
(via liarworthloving)
Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter... →
*gleeful smirk*
Allegations that News International induced a reporter to lie to the court, and that both Murdochs misled Parliament, and their own legal advisers find their evidence inaccurate and misleading.
Not only might this be a fatal blow to the Murdochs, but the ending might be amongst the most ignominious in the history of journalism.
Fair enough then.
nostrich:
Nick Davies for...
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“Vampires have often found it advantageous to maintain a hidden presence in...”
– LOL
From the latest True Blood.
via NYC underground culture blog Animal
WatchCan. Not. Wait.
gardinho:
taylorgotbeats:
In Time (2011) Directed by Andrew Niccol
Set in a world where people stop aging at 25, but are genetically-engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth.
I was a little iffy at first, the score sounds a little bit like Inception I’m not sure who composed it but well see about...
“Compared with other political systems in other industrialized democracies, our...”
– Financial crisis won’t do us in, but political gridlock might - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post (via rzhale)
Nailed it!
I keep up with a lot of American progressive bloggers, and they increasingly share an overwhelming sense of despair with President Obama. But he’s not the one who voted...
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July 2011
9 posts
“Write drunk, edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via tlbb)
