March 2012
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
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February 2012
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“Shitstorm”: Germany's Anglicism of the Year →
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“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking,...”
– Clifton Fadiman
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Andromeda galaxy's exotic X-ray signal is really a... →
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Don't get stuck.
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with...
So long, Dragon Tattoo.
Hello, Game of Thrones.
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Goddamn it, Reddit. The truth hurts.
[–]VAPossum
695 points 10 hours ago* (855|150)
Those last few lines are what gets me.
My parents were baby boomers; we had the typical nuclear household: a suburban house kept nice by a stay at home mom, Dad works in a nice office as an engineer for a big company, first a son, and two years later, a daughter. No dog, but we did have a cat and two cars in the drive.
My dad did a stint...
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Now I Know - Learn Something New Every Day →
Very cool.
Warm laundry.
Such a soothing, fleeting pleasure. It’s the little things.
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“The way to love anything is to realize
that it might be lost.”
– G. K. Chesterton
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Forty magnificent photos of nature. There are no... →
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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...”
– Mark Twain
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The Tangential: My Understanding of a Typical PR... →
thetangential:
I have a friend who works as an account manager. She is a public relations pro. Or so say her hashtags. She works in a little firm that specializes in education stuff. Often she has attempted to describe her daily work duties to me. But I’m still confused. All I can gather is the following,…
I think I like steampunk.
Actually, I’m almost positive I do. I don’t where it came from or what it encompasses or where to find it. But I do know that it is fucking AWESOME.
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That awkward moment when you're so tired from... →
N A P C E P T I O N
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Text Messages from a Ghost
By Mallory Ortberg @ 4:00 pm
October 14th hey im gaunting you ok Do you mean haunting yeah sorry i don’t have any fingers so im poltergeisting a stick to help me text this Who is this? oh sorry im a ghost So do you live inside this phone yeah kind of
October 21st sorry if last night was pretty loud Sorry? some other ghosts came over last night and we fought we used to be roommates Oh....
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The Birds and the Bees.
My dad’s most recent hobby foray is into the world of beekeeping. Swarm boxes, hand built hives, research galore: if it’s related to bees, he’s on it. Momma Doles, while lacking Daddy Doles’s confidence that this venture is indeed ingenious, is nevertheless supportive; for Valentine’s Day, she ordered him two queens and two pounds of worker bees, to be delivered in...
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Photos of Greece in Turmoil →
Was my semester in Athens really in 2007? It seems so long ago. So much has changed since.
The fathers of our modern world, brought to their knees by laziness and irresponsibility… I miss that place. I hope it’s still there whenever I have a chance to return.
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“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few...”
– Jonathan Carroll
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Banksy + Tom Hanks = Hanksy →
OH MY GOD YES
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“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without...”
– George Sand
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“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key...”
– John Lennon
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Is Our Childrens Learning? →
Aside from this one guy, no. I don’t think they is.
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WatchBjork is so weird, but dammit, can she sing.
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Voilà! The Amazing Fact Generator! →
FACTS SO SEXY
HIT ME AGAIN BABY
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“Keep your faith in beautiful things;
in the sun when it is hidden,
in the...”
– Roy R. Gibson