February 2009
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January 2009
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“A puff a day might keep Alzheimer’s away, according to marijuana research by...”
– [via via noneck, Slashdot - Marijuana Could Prevent Alzheimer’s, New Study]
“Today, I was having sex with my girlfriend and accidentally called her Brad (one...”
– [via entitled, F*** My Life]
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The Big Fix by David Leonhardt →
Makes the case for intense grass-roots investments in green tech, health care, and education to revitalize the American economy.
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“A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot. [A language is a dialect with an...”
– as told to Max Weinreich
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“The great French Marshal Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The...”
– John F Kennedy
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its...”
– Mark Twain
“To most people who look at a mobile, it’s no more than a series of flat...”
– Alexander Calder
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“One such mistress wrote on the blog that when she pouted about not having been...”
– It’s the Economy, Girlfriend by Ravi Somaiya
[via transistor, NYTimes.com]
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Acidification Of The Oceans Increasing...
[via NYTimes.com]
The Monaco Report, written by a group of 155 scientists from 26 countries, states that the world’s oceans are increasing in salinity as a consequence of increased absorption of carbon, forming carbonic acid.
‘Oceans absorb about a quarter of carbon dioxide emissions, the group said, but as the gas dissolves in the oceans it produces carbonic acid. The group says...
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WatchJennifer 8 Lee. TED Talk: Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of American Chinese food
[via samhuleatt]
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William Burroughs Travel Writing Method
[via the Paris Review, 1965]
For exercise, when I make a trip, such as from Tangier to Gibraltar, I will record this in thrre columns in a notebook I always take with me. One column will contain simply an account of the trip, what happened. I arrived at the air terminal, what is said by the clerks, what I overheard on the plane, what hotel I checked into. The next column presents my memories;...
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“I think drugs are interesting principally as a chemical means of altering...”
– William S Burroughs, 1965
[via The Paris Review]
“If you don’t find a way to create a wall between [writing] and the world, the...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
[via astroblemes]
Tessa Rumsey
THE SMALLEST EFFECTIVE DISTANCE
Where is the original skin this version can be checked against? Snow, Cholera, Red Shoe, Nightingfale—the image outshine the actual, the body outshines the soul, the angel food cake dissolves as you dip it into a cup of black coffee before me, dark sugar & inevitably, fading. You are my ex & thus the past must outshine the present in a way that hurts just...
“Rocket Man” by Jason Mraz (originally by Elton...
“I honestly couldn’t care less if you like the same bands or you’ve read the same...”
– I Wrote This For You.
[via align]
“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but I shall go on living.”
– Pablo Neruda
[via &:, astroblemes]
“Memory knows before knowledge remembers.”
– William Faulkner
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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new...”
– Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
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“We’ve all been building this big, integrated financial system. We didn’t...”
– James Rosenfield, a co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates
[via NYTimes.com]
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New Forest
[via New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests]
‘About 38 million acres of original rain forest are being cut down every year, but in 2005, according to the most recent “State of the World’s Forests Report” by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, there were an estimated 2.1 billion acres of potential replacement forest growing in the tropics — an area almost as large as...
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“We conceptualize the world using metaphor, so commonly, automatically, and...”
– George Lakoff 