January 2012
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October 2011
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Oct 12th
“Gray is a color. Grey is a colour.”
– ‘Lin Lawhn What’s the difference between gray and grey? - Quora
Oct 12th
“… It’s not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which...”
– Hayao Miyazaki, about his film Spirited Away from: An Interview with Hayao Miyazaki Animage, May 2001 Translated to English by Ryoko Toyama Edited by Team Ghiblink Miyazaki on Spirited Away // Interviews // Nausicaa.net
Oct 9th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 4th
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“There was once a conjurer who boasted that he had become god-like. One god...”
– Making Light: “Fanfic”: force of nature
Oct 2nd
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September 2011
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Sep 20th
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Sep 20th
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Sep 19th
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are...”
– Carl Sagan
Sep 18th
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Sep 18th
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How Much of the Internet is Actually for Porn -... →
The Internet is only kinda for porn. But the song is still fun.
Sep 15th
August 2011
7 posts
“If I am not too young for moral judgment, then neither are they. No, Headmaster,...”
– Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Chapter 74: SA, Escalation of Conflicts, Pt 9, a harry potter fanfic - FanFiction.Net
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“The reason that most of us are unhappy most of the time is that we set our...”
– Dan Gilbert (quoted by Jim Coudal, via swissmiss | Goals)
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Aug 24th
“Things sure were better back before (insert arbitrary time divide).”
– Devon Dossett (Sound Engineer at Vau de Vire Society), sarcastically underlining his refutation of the idea that America was better in 1913 in the comments here: Screw The Rich (Here’s How) | TechCrunch.
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“Christians, bros, hippies, hipsters, and parents are all using social media to...”
– Creating A Better Version Of Yourself On The Internet « Thought Catalog
Aug 1st
July 2011
7 posts
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“Leia murdered the person who forced her into that outfit. … Attention is not...”
– Stellar Four: The Origins of the Slave Leia Costume
Jul 28th
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“…When you are on your phone, you are not with me.”
– Jameson
Jul 14th
“The only way to heal our increasingly broken world and communities is to come...”
–  Bill McKibben (via foodte-ch)
Jul 13th
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Jul 6th
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Jul 4th
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June 2011
14 posts
“The absence of public ethics scandals seems to be more a consequence of luck...”
– A 2008 internal review by the International Monetary Fund. (via officialssay)
Jun 29th
“We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we...”
– Mary McCarthy (via storytellingquotes)
Jun 28th
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Thought You Should See This: Sustainable Design:... →
thoughtyoushouldseethis: In Sustainable Design is Wearing Thin, writer Justin McGuirk looks at the sustainable design movement, and finds it sorely lacking. Sustainability, he writes, “suggests the flatlining of human ambition” while sticking a recycled logo on a product can’t really be credited with provoking…
Jun 27th
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“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
– Ira Glass (via storylaura)
Jun 27th
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
Jun 27th
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Jun 22nd
fan•boy |ˈfanˌboi|
marco: noun informal derogatory: a term used to describe people who bought a product that competes with the one you bought, which is probably more popular than your choice, for reasons that you wish to discredit or diminish because you’re secretly afraid or upset that you made the wrong choice. ORIGIN from fan + boy.
Jun 18th
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“Man of the Week: Republican New York State Senator Roy McDonald On reversing...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Man of the Week: Republican New York State Senator Roy McDonald
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Jun 7th
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“IF I had to guess, I’d say that 90% of the time, when you ask people to...”
– [source: M.S. in an Economist blog post]
Jun 5th
Jun 5th
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“I’ll start by tipping my hat to Andrew Mason. He caught social mood just...”
– [source: Minyanville] quotation followed by proof with numbers that the only difference between Groupon & Ponzi is that everyone can read Groupon’s books.
Jun 4th
May 2011
5 posts
“That’s their choice, Hermione, just like it’s yours. I decided not to do the...”
– [source: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Chapter 72] HPMOR, a chapter in which alternate universe rational!Harry Potter loans Hermione one of his quest items so she can practice hero-ing well equipped and skip the part of the story that happens every time while not being the...
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May 9th
“Music is the space between the notes.”
– ~Claude Debussy, as quoted in Turning Numbers into Knowledge (2001) by Johnathan G. Koomey Debussy on White Space | Konigi
May 9th