July 2009
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September 2008
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Today is the first day of D’s two-week vacay. Yahoo!!!
July 2008
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Ladies, meet "Dimitri the stud". →
May 2008
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Damnatio memoriae →
Damnatio memoriae is the Latin phrase literally meaning “damnation of memory”, in the sense of removed from the remembrance. It was a form of dishonor that could be passed by the Roman Senate upon traitors or others who brought discredit to the Roman State. [More]
March 2008
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Muxtape & the Ridiculous Speed of Internet Culture... →
jakoblodwick: “Just a few days after the thing comes to light, it already has stereotypes associated with it; it’s already somehow a parody of itself. That’s insane. We’re talking about less than a week here and it’s already stale enough to make fun of!” I couldn’t agree more. But I jumped on the bandwagon anyway! =) chrizane.muxtape.com
Complaint #161
whitewhine: “It was one thing when my mother started reading my blog, but does she really need to follow my Twitter feed?” -Whine by Jason Jones
Why be an entrepreneur?
jakoblodwick: If you don’t take advantage of yourself, someone else will.
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Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand →
Manorexia. Orthorexia. Diabulimia. Binge Eating Disorder. All are dangerous variations on the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia, and have become buzzwords that are popping up on Web sites and blogs, on television and in newspaper articles. As celebrity magazines chronicle the glamorous and the suffering, therapists and a growing number of researchers are trying to treat and understand the...
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Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? →
STYLES make fights — or so goes the boxing cliché. In 2008, they make presidential campaigns, too. This is especially true for the two remaining Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Reporters covering the candidates have already resorted to traditional analysis of style — fashion choices, manner of speaking, even the way they laugh. Yet, according to design experts, the candidates have...
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred...
– R.D. Laing (Scottish psychiatrist noted for his extensive writings on mental illness)
Dear Internet
butterflyeffect: Please blow up all websites that have audio on autoplay. Thanking you in anticipation Vanessa
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February 2008
7 posts
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I don’t answer those humiliating questions. But whichever one it is, I...
– Barack Obama Refuses ‘Boxers or Briefs’ Question (via Usmagazine.com)
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What weapons did she have at her disposal? None but her fidelity. And she offered him that at the very first day, as if aware she had nothing more to give. Their love was an oddly asymmetrical construction: it was supported by the absolute certainty of her fidelity like a gigantic edifice supported by a single column. - from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
January 2008
9 posts
The Book of Tao →
The 25 Coolest (and Most Unconventional) Keyboards →
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December 2007
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Dangerous Knowledge In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
The 'Sylvia Plath' effect →
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and...
– Samuel Butler, from Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 248, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).