December 2010
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“What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private...”
– Bill Hader as Julian Assange (via unloved, sebastianwaters, putitperfectly)
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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via sothenshe)
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Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die by Patton... →
We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever.
I know it sounds great, but there’s a danger: Everything we have today that’s cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past…
Etewaf doesn’t produce a new generation of artists—just an army of sated consumers. Why create anything new when there’s a mountain of freshly excavated pop...
My ability to turn bright red when drunk is "a red... →
ernie:
Well… that certainly makes the whole Asian red-face drinky thing less funny, doesn’t it? Oy. (Thanks for the link, Lil)
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A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years →
“In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.” - Douglas Coupland
Via Derek Powazek.
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Trauma: How We've Created a Nation Addicted to... →
From disease to addiction, parenting to attention deficit disorder, Canadian physician and bestselling author Gabor Maté’s work focuses on the centrality of early childhood experiences to the development of the brain, and how those experiences can impact everything from behavioral patterns to physical and mental illness. While the relationship between emotional stress and disease, and mental and...
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America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane →
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David Mitchell under the spotlight →
What is it that you most love about Britain? Katherine Curran, Dublin
I think the thing I’m most fond of is our self-criticism. Whenever people say: “We don’t like winners in this country…” I think: that’s great – it puts life in balance. They’ve got their winnings; why do they have to have the adulation as well? In America you have the relentlessness of a...
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via superdilletante)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Wipers (97)
The Dears (15)
The Beatles (13)
Catherine Wheel (12)
Hole (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Take a step back, though, and what Groupon represents is something far bigger....”
– Bargain Junkies Are Beating Retailers at Their Own Game
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Tron Legacy is a colossal failure of movie-making →
Ouch. “Jeff Bridges has a few thousand scenes where he rambles about the cyber equivalent of Yerba Mate and how it’s improved his cyber-digestion.”
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The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not... →
Long read, but worth it.
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“Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the...”
– Alfred North Whitehead, “Religion and Science” (The Atlantic, August 1925)
Read the full article here.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
The Cure (39)
Daft Punk (25)
Ra Ra Riot (16)
Pixies (14)
Joy Division (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“In a few years, people will learn to reduce their message sending, the same way...”
– Bill Nye
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“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Twin Shadow (25)
Vitalic (22)
The Apples in Stereo (16)
Crystal Castles (16)
The Smashing Pumpkins (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“A less-discussed legacy of Prohibition is its dumbing down of the American...”
– The Wet, the Dry, and the Ugly
Prohibition is alive and well…in the crush of bad booze out there.
By Kevin Kosar
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Where Are America's Corner Pubs? →
After a trip to England, Ryan Avent pines for an American equivalent to the British pub. Why it doesn’t exist…
Via The Atlantic.
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