November 2009
Corduroy Skirts are a Sin →
Good on you, Syracuse.
“The pattern I experienced at Apple would be confirmed almost everywhere I...”
– Buccaneer scholar - Gizmodo
The buccaneer scholar in question is James Bach, the second son of Richard Bach. You know, the guy who wrote Illusions.
My world is moving again.
“The pattern I experienced at Apple would be confirmed almost everywhere I...”
– Buccaneer scholar - Gizmodo
The buccaneer scholar in question is James Bach, the second son of Richard Bach. You know, the guy who wrote Illusions.
My world is moving again.
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. The atoms in your left...”
– Lawrence Krauss, via hierology
Rands In Repose: Up to Nothing →
This article by a tech guy overlaps with Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods with regard to the importance of unstructured time to let your brain idle (both as a child and as an adult). This is something that we, as Americans, are really bad at.
Watching Dancing with the Stars doesn’t count.
“We still have thirty million workers in the United States who are unemployed,...”
– Landing a job like getting into Harvard - CNN.com
Well go me, then.
Pull the emergency plug
riazm:
I frequently find that the solutions I require aren’t needed by anyone else. This is why I will never start a business. Nothing I want is wanted. Business ideas I’ve had:
A savings account that comes with an emergency number. Once you call it, wheels are set in motion. The bank cashes your investments, gets you out of your lease, breaks up with your significant other, buys you a plane...
“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and...”
– Edward Sapir
“‘There is no way to defend this heinous incident,’ said a Twitter...”
– Google apologizes for results of ‘Michelle Obama’ image search - CNN.com
I think perhaps you have misunderstood the meaning of the words “free speech”. It’s not “people can say anything I like”.
Cryptomnesia →
Cryptomnesia, or inadvertent plagiarism, is a memory bias whereby a person falsely recalls generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke, when the thought was actually generated by someone else. In these cases, the person is not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but is rather experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.
Sometimes it feels like all my story ideas are examples of...
Oxford University changes common room name to... →
(via @ktaloipa)
Bahahahahahahahaha.
“Whenever it is played at Harvard, as it was November 24 last, representatives of...”
– Sports Illustrated (1962) on The Game—no, not that one—as seen on Ivy Style.
Immediately after a website presentation...
clientsfromhell:
Client: Web 2.0… that’s a Microsoft application, right?
I don’t even… what world do you have to live in to say that?
Daily Drop Caps
nderstand that this drop cap makes me infinitely cooler than you. Actually, you can pretty safely ignore the text that I write here under the assumption that it’s pretty much a useless and verbose attempt to give the drop cap enough textual room to do its stuff. After all, a drop cap is pretty pointless without text surrounding it to make it look snazzy. The problem is that I am hardly what...
“I get excited about this because I hold womanhood on a high plane and it hurts...”
– mrgan:
Manhattan magistrate Edward di Caiazzo sending Lois Rabinowitz home in 1960 because she dared show up in his traffic court wearing pants (instead of a skirt, a point which today may need clarification.)
This was less than fifty years ago. Unbelievable.
“Self-promotion may appear revolting, but it’s the only promotion that’s...”
– On Self-Promotion – Jeffrey Zeldman
“If by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who...”
– John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (via TransGriot) (via clapifyoulikeme)
“These are places of initiation, where the borders between ourselves and other...”
– from The Thunder Tree, by Robert Michael Pyle (originally sighted in Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv).
If people over 65 in each state made the laws, 0... →
(via syntheticpubes)
It’s only a matter of time. We’ll have equality yet.
“Reasoning with a woman is like sitting down to a friendly game of dice. Only the...”
– Matrim Cauthon, in The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brian Sanderson
Ah, casual misogyny and the assumption that women are somehow inherently different from men. I must be reading a fantasy book again.
(The fact that it then continues for a page and a half indicates that it’s a Wheel...
“Call girls existed long before I got into the game, and details of what that...”
– Belle de Jour: On science and prostitution
Brooke Magnanti, an ex-prostitute and blogger until recently known to the public only as Belle de Jour, speaks like a scientist—because she is one.
She must get kind of a kick out of having been played on TV by a Doctor Who companion.
Ten Strange Places →
Added to my travel list.
WatchWhat Earth would look like if it had rings. (via @mantia)