June 2011
2 posts
3 tags
May 2011
2 posts
3 tags
March 2011
1 post
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and...
– The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1877. (via tlvx)
December 2010
3 posts
1 tag
July 2009
2 posts
The Triumph of the Random →
by Leonard Mlodinow
June 2009
2 posts
Straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from...
– Ian Malcolm, “chaotician” (Jurrassic Park)
May 2009
4 posts
April 2009
11 posts
Transparency on its own robs as much hope as it delivers, because transparency...
– Cory Doctorow
The goal of the ‘30-day moratorium’ is to force the board of...
– Volunteers at a non-profit go on strike!!! The volunteers contribute 20,000 hours of work per year to the non-profit and oddly the management says that they can function without the volunteers. So I guess they won’t be bringing in volunteer-scabs?
In high school, the twins were “very confident, and very interesting for...
– “Couplet”, by Rebecca Mead, April 6 New Yorker
According to my notes, it would appear that in fact only 1 out of every 22...
– Jeffron the Immortal, Canada Dry, Drink it in
dude is hilarious
Universities Are Turning into Corporate Drone... →
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would...
– Edgar Allan Poe (via jstn)
I just spent a whole decade making PowerPoints and getting mad at the internet....
– Joshua Green Allen
It’s all bullshit. A logo on a can of soda? Please. My life is bullshit.
– Peter Arnell, marketing executive and “brand architect” on his life’s work,
in this Newsweek article via Ricky Van Veen
1 tag
Vancouver steam clock →
said steam clock
before going to vancouver i asked dan for ideas,...
Dan: hey liam.. sorry i totally forgot to respond to your msg. i don't even have an excuse other than a shitty memory. anyways i was in SB, not vancouver.
me: no problem
me: i went to the steam clock!
Dan: ahahaha that thing is so dumb.
me: it was epic
March 2009
10 posts
Activists are failing because of their devotion to professionalism, to official...
– anonymous comment on Abandon Point and Click Activism
Although we live in an absurd, meaningless, junk-filled culture, there is...
– Antoine Valot, playwright (via Andrea Miller)
January 2008
7 posts
Plagarism assignment →
Students deepen their own practice as transformative language artists in...
– MA in Transformative Language Arts from Goddard
Storytelling Studies - towards a new academic... →
How Storytelling will Save the World →
It is easy to get caught up in the idea of being someone “special”...
– LW
Lots of people think they want these experiences, but have no idea just what...
– Brad Warner
December 2007
5 posts