July 2011
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Never bail for boiling blood.
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Distractions are more important than almost...
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Learn to punch your weight.
Should I Work for Free? →
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1:11 am
There will be periods in your life where the big things won’t matter—at least not in a way that brings you any real joy. During those times, I really think that it’s those little wins that make life a great place to be every once in a while. Tonight I biked home in, what must truly be, the perfect temperature. I stopped over at Massimo’s. Stumbled in at the exact moment they were...
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Autonomy is the best motivator.
Shady Characters The Secret Life of Punctuation →
This is Keith Houston’s blog about the unusual stories behind some well-known — and some rather more outlandish — marks of punctuation.
The Wire’s Michael K. ‘Omar’ Williams Is Headed to... →
“Hong Kong physicists say they have proved that a single photon obeys...”
– Discovery News
Ideal width of a Japanese soba noodle: 1.6mm
“Quand les hommes ne peuvent changer les choses, ils changent les mots.”
– Jean Jaures
“Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of...”
– Hegel
“We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.”
“The future belongs to those with the longest memory.”
– Nietzsche
15 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent →
14. Boketto: Japanese for the act of gazing vacantly into the distance.
Words Hurt The World, Poet Says →
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
– Gustave Flaubert
“THE CRUELEST DISAPPOINTMENT IS WHEN YOU LET YOURSELF DOWN.”
– Jenny Holzer
Five Critically Important Reasons to Take a Long... →
The 78 Most Annoying Words to Read in a Restaurant... →
The Big Ideas Podcast: The Medium is the Message →
A new podcast from The Guardian. The first episode, on McLuhan, is great.
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Progress is bunk. Give me an inertia of momentary...
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We are here to roam around and bump into each...
“Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some...”
– Woody Allen
“Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward...”
– Lester Bangs 