January 2012
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October 2011
8 posts
“Gray is a color.
Grey is a colour.”
– ‘Lin Lawhn
What’s the difference between gray and grey? - Quora
“… 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
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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
September 2011
10 posts
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10 tags
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are...”
– Carl Sagan
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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.
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
“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)
“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.
“Christians, bros, hippies, hipsters, and parents are all using social media to...”
– Creating A Better Version Of Yourself On The Internet « Thought Catalog
July 2011
7 posts
4 tags
“Leia murdered the person who forced her into that outfit. … Attention is not...”
– Stellar Four: The Origins of the Slave Leia Costume
“…When you are on your phone, you are not with me.”
– Jameson
“The only way to heal our increasingly broken world and communities is to come...”
– Bill McKibben (via foodte-ch)
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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)
“We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we...”
– Mary McCarthy (via storytellingquotes)
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…
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
– Ira Glass (via storylaura)
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via nefffy)
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.
“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
“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]
“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.
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...
“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