February 2012
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How we met: Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward →
January 2012
9 posts
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“I think your question is very interesting, and where does it come from? Well,...”
– from Assange’s interview here»
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Julian Assange's interview in the Rolling Stones →
Someone has an involvement to some extent in our work, which they then overstate tremendously to gain authority. They get something from the involvement – a reputation by proximity, information we’ve collected or some other item of value. Then we’re not able to continue the relationship with them at the same degree of involvement, so they feel rejected…What they lose through the...
The Local Tea Party: You should get married soon.... →
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My best friend Guru was going to break the glass and jump out of the Cafe Coffee Day building. I almost let him do it.
Why because I will also do the same. You also want to do the same thing I know.
Then what man? Whenever and wherever you go, people are asking only one thing. When you are…
IN WHICH I FIX MY GIRLFRIEND’S GRANDPARENTS’ WIFI...
BY MIKE LACHER
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Lo, in the twilight days of the second year of the second decade of the third millennium did a great darkness descend over the wireless internet connectivity of the people of 276 Ferndale Street in the North-Central lands of Iowa. For many years, the gentlefolk of these lands basked in a wireless network overflowing with speed and ample internet, flowing like a river...
A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband →
The cast of characters cannot be called well-rounded. In addition to Alice (frivolous) and Harry (“woman-hater”), there are Ruth and Fred (no distinguishing characteristics) and the Dixons, who are having domestic troubles due to Mrs. Dixon’s terrible housekeeping. Don’t worry: Bettina gets their marriage back on track by teaching her how to make coffee and making her rent a house—they’re...
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via girlwithoutwings)
December 2011
34 posts
“‘Life is one huge lottery where only the winning tickets are visible’
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– Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian intellectual and writer, The Orange Girl, Orion Publishing, 2004. See also: ☞ Are You Totally Improbable Or Totally Inevitable? The chances of anyone existing are one in 102,685,000 (via amiquote)
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Bitterman →
Finally something good to read on the net!
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F...
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F...
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F...
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
From Me To You: At Home With Kate Spade~ →
fromme-toyou:
Tucked away on Manhattan’s Upper East Side is this colorful and joy filled home where the art ranges from Andy Warhol to pieces found in thrift stores and the people who live here seem to have found a perfect balance of love, family and life… I mean, what else would we expect from Kate & Andy…
Don't support your local bookseller →
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“Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you...”
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via quote-book)
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“Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control over...”
– David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. With thanks to Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
“The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to...”
– Deborah Tannen (via wrists)
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Angela Carter on The Bloody Chamber →
“Do any of these people actually enjoy looking at art?” asks Saatchi....”
– From here>
November 2011
6 posts
Pascal Dangin →
Dangin is, by all accounts, an adept plumper of breasts and shrinker of pores. Using the principles of anatomy and perspective, he is able to smooth a blemish or a blip (“anomalies,” he calls them) with a painterly subtlety. Dennis Freedman, the creative director of W, said, “He has this ability to make moves in someone’s facial structure or body. I’ll look at someone, and I’ll think, Can we...
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Self Deception →
Showing off is a special kind of behaviour in which we tend both to be overconfident and deliberately to exaggerate our behaviour to impress others: it is one of the most dangerous things you can do.
The Antidote: Your World is a Mirror →
theantidote:
Your judgments about other people say more about you than they do about the people you’re judging. The reason you can detect the weaknesses and insecurities of others is because you have experienced those same weaknesses and insecurities.
Similarly, the reason you’re able to see beauty in others…
Laurie Penny: A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt... →