April 2012
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March 2012
15 posts
Men who corrupt, depress or weaken others, tricksters and those who would...
– André Gide, The New Fruits
From the book Le Corbusier Talks with Students. (via georgp)
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
– Ernest Hemingway
“Constitutions - No society can make a perpetual Constitution or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please during their usufruct. They are masters, too, of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The...
You are not who you think you are. This is just a temporary package that you’ve...
– RuPaul (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
This new type of man turns his interest away from life, persons, nature, ideas—in short from everything that is alive; he transforms all life into things, including himself and the manifestations of his human faculties of reason, seeing, hearing, tasting, loving. Sexuality becomes a technical skill, feelings are flattened and sometimes substituted for by sentimentality; joy, the expression of...
The thing about patriarchy is that individual men, gay and straight, are often...
– (via lasluchasdelcorazon)
Clementine: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.
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