August 2010
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“yes, i was waiting for permission to grow.
i didn’t want to grow alone....”
– cc
July 2010
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“Positive thinking is important, but it’s not certainty. Certainty is knowing...”
– m.berg
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angsty: i just want to be okay today
cc: honey, you are asking for too little. try again.
More people get DVDs from libraries than from... →
(via librarianista)
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meet the interrobang.
“the interrobang symboly of wtf culture” via theatlantic
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already an advocate for instapaper? well, instapaper has some sister sites. *i am not sure they are related. give them a try and see how many more articles you end up having in your instapaper queue.
givemesomethingtoread
longform
on either site just click on the read later button next to an article and it goes toinstapaper.
the difference between the two sites? longform is on tumblr and...
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"the best magazine articles ever" →
kk has some very interesting finds when you have the time, or even when you dont and just desire a distraction (try not to get lost in there). i came across the “best magazine articles ever” :
* Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”, Atlantic Magazine, July 1945
* Norman Mailer, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” in Esquire, November 1960
* Tom...
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i am not a moleskine
i am postalco and i come in color
"how to cuddle with an elephant seal" →
i am not one for opening forwards but this one….worth it. let it load.
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Watchlookwork (by ben pieratt)
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ohnotheydidnt: 25 Female Characters That Kick... →
ontd goodness
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found out about @posterous from @pinterest both are amazing. if you are not using them you are missing out
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Did you hear about the polygamy legal drama? How...
Did you hear about the polygamy legal drama? How is “polygamy” different from “bigamy,” “polyamory,” or “monandry?” via The Hot Word Blog by Hot Word on 7/27/10 Sex, marriage, and the law. Always complicated. That’s why there are so many words to describe how two people (sometimes more) live and love together. Like polygamy. Do you remember the 2007 arrest of Warren Jeffs, a religious leader and...
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Download now or listen on posterous 03-Winter Winds.mp3 (8625 KB) listening to mumford & sons
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screenshots from doittomorrow
via notebookstories
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screen shots from egretlist which syncs with evernote
a most impressive interface that looks like a desk but acts like an app. i wish this was an actual theme for evernote. if it was i would use evernote more often, or at all.
via notebookstories
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i wish this synched with evernote, simplenote, notes, or a filing cabinet
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chez julia →
julia child’s house in august 1976 architectural digest
cookedbooks
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"write by hand on the computer" →
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“do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to...”
– derek sivers via bobulate
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“Nerd!” “Geek!” Do you consider these words... →
the hot word blog, perfection.
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bobulate:
As you think you travel, as you love, you attract. You are today where you thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts. but you can endure and lean, can accept and be glad. You will realize the vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will...
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grace paley: collected shorts trailer →
great poet. should be an interesting documentary.
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mark twain in the lab of nikola tesla : brad maier →
the content in his blog makes my grey matter drool.
brad maier blog
@bradmaier twitter
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“I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of...”
– Go To College / Be Sure You Make Things : Brad Maier
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textures of time: a vanishing america told in... →
Color is a major factor in each of the shots, with the impeccable compositions being the next most noticeable element.
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still wishing there was a letterpress generator like there is a ransom note generator http://ransom.sytes.org/
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i had 692 new items in my google reader at 11:47pm.
i starred and liked 12 items.
i clicked on 6 items and read the articles.
where are the darias? from the paris review daily blog
a day with chefs, children, and michelle obama from the atlantic
365 journal entries from notebook stories blog
users on twitter from philofaxy
consider what your top idea is making you do from lifehacker
i...
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the value of tardiness →
One day in 1939, Berkeley doctoral candidate George Dantzig arrived late for a statistics class taught by Jerzy Neyman. He copied down the two problems on the blackboard and turned them in a few days later, apologizing for the delay — he’d found them unusually difficult. Distracted, Neyman told him to leave his homework on the desk.
On a Sunday morning six weeks later, Neyman banged on...
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four fish: a book for anyone who eats seafood →
Unlike other diatribes bemoaning the sad state of seafood, Four Fish ends by proposing workable solutions to the problems—all proven to be successful in isolated cases.
well that would be a first.
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“write your ‘to be’ list before you write your ‘to do’...”
– monica berg
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