February 2010
22 posts
“oh, love. you’re corporate, but you’re not a whore motherfucker”
– sal trying to make me feel better, as i lament the loss of my soul to the corporate devil.
January 2010
58 posts
Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?
Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, Final Exam question for May of 1997.
Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as, “why do airplanes fly?” on his final exams. His one and only final exam question in May 1997 for his Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer II class was: “Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with...
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we...”
– Umberto Eco ‘The Name of the Rose’
New Jakob Dylan Album, Women and Country →
msbojangles:
herestothehalcyon:
T-Bone produces.
Neko Case does some singing.
WOO-HOO for this!
something to look forward to
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of...”
– Kahlil Gibran
Ikigai (生き甲斐) - "Something important one lives... →
funnelthru:
Definition from Wikipedia but we first heard about it from Dan Buettner
Ikigai (生き甲斐 - pronounced “ee-ki-guy”) is the Japanese equivalent of the French, raison d’être. In English, these translate respectively as: ‘something important one lives for’, and ‘a reason for being’.
Although the meanings are similar, cultural attitudes towards the concept they embody, differ.
Few possess...
“Amor est magis cognitivus quam cognito: we know things better through love than...”
– Umberto Eco ‘The Name of the Rose’
“There is no such person as governor. Only the governed exist to govern...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“there was nothing else to do in that suckhole of a town. you go outside, you run...”
– mary karr, from this interview with the paris review. (via paperbackgirl)
Rainymood →
Everyones posting this, but it really is one of the most awesome sites i’ve come across in a long time.
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
– J.R.R Tolkien (via nihilnoetia) (via gottfried)
“Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.”
– Studs Terkel
“Though it’s too soon to issue a verdict on the Obama presidency, we do...”
– Naomi Klein in The Guardian
Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken... →
and a rather brilliant analysis on the Obama brand…
Wordcount.org →
littleorphanammo:
afghanibanani:
WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more...
MY NAME IS VEILED YELLOW AND I'M A CAKE ADDICT
and i need help.
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The dream about the Giraffe and the Elephant (as...
The other night I had a dream me and my sis and this random stranger were bopping down oxford street. It was all calm and then people started running and screaming. There was immense panic and I was like AHH why is everyone running. I turned around and there was a GIANT GIRAFFE running towards us. Like it was ENORMOUS. Bigger than a dinosaur. Like massive. Out of this world humungous. And it was...
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Noah and the Whale Blue Skies
Not sure how i feel...
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1st Tumblr dream
I dreamt of a huge tumblr meet-up. It began with team building exercises…and ended in a race against time to save the world.
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“This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of...”
– Umberto Eco ‘The Name of the Rose’
“I’m dreaming that everyones turned into muppets with mouths like...”
– my mum, in that bit where she’s asleep but still replies to my questions.
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“Deep down,
inside our bodies,
lives the soul.
No one has ever seen it, but we...”
– Michal Snunit - The Soul Bird (via stealmyinfi)
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“no man is worth all the hassle. we are devious, sly and conspiring ppl. dont...”
– Going through old emails, i came accross this bit of advice given to me by a good friend. At the time I was shocked to read it. Over a year on, i’m still not sure whether i could ever believe this. I think it would spell the death of any future relationship if i did.
advice to the world: never underestimate the...
or anyone elses for that matter.
“As I lay on my pallet, I concluded that my father shouldn’t have sent me...”
– Umberto Eco ‘The Name of the Rose’
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the perks of a blackberry
so, when i first got my snazzy little blackberry, i thought “fantastic! i’ll have access to all my favourite news sites and will be able to wiki anything i want - at any time!”
I’m not kidding. I believed this. I thought the best part of having a blackberry would be the ability to wiki things. And i honestly thought that wikipedia would be my most frequented site.
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