January 2011
8 Alternatives to College →
“Seriously, you could walk around and say, “Jesus never lived,” and people nod...”
– James Altucher
“I believe that people should honor the commitments that they make. I’m not...”
– Dan Savage Interview, Part 4
Reblog if you thought the lyrics to the song "I'm...
smokemeimdope-:
when the lyrics really are: “I’m blue if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die, if I was green I would die”
“Who, alive today, will still be famous in 500 years? It’s the kind of question...”
– Fame: Who’s going to live forever? - By Samuel Black - Slate Magazine (via ayjay) Of course they were contemporary. The quattrocento was an amazing time. Reminds me of an argument in The Barbarian Invasions (the best movie ever, btw): genius is usually thought of as a (if not the) individual...
“Such wistful desire to evade responsibility exposes the childishness of the...”
– The New Atlantis » Slacking as Self-Discovery (via ayjay)
“I wish I could be more enthusiastic about the events in Egypt and Tunisia – but...”
– A Wind of Change down Arab Street? | The Spectator (via ayjay)
“Egypt, like many Arab societies, has a wealthy and well-armed elite at the top...”
– The stability we have embraced and encouraged in the Arab world isn’t really stability—it’s repression (via ayjay)
The Sock Gap
Jeff: Okay. Have you thought through your foreplay?
Steve: What do you mean ‘foreplay’?
Jeff: What do you think I mean? I mean when exactly do you take your socks off! My advice is to get them off right after your shoes, and before your trousers. That’s ‘The Sock Gap’! Miss it, and suddenly you’re a naked man in socks.
— Coupling, season 1, episode 2
PEG: Honestly? Best sex advice I've ever gotten off the TV.
“I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent...”
– Obama’s 2009 Speech in Cairo (video)
Nokia Android Phones Or Nokia Windows Phone... →
parislemon:
My guess would be for Nokia partnering with Microsoft to build Windows Phones rather than with Google to build Android phones.
Obviously, a big part of that is Elop’s Microsoft ties (and the fact that he is said to have stayed on a bit longer after making his move known within Microsoft — something which probably wouldn’t have happened if it was considered at threatening move or...
Particularize →
ayjay:
As I mentioned the other day, the Shirky/Doctorow thesis is that the internet in general and social media in particular tend to generate political freedom; the Evgeny Morozov thesis is that those…
Yes and no. Overgeneralization is clearly a form of stupidity, but so is getting lost in minutiae, and perhaps a more perverse one at that, since it’s easier to masquerade as insight....
Watchort:
Jake Shimabukuro plays “Bohemian Rhapsody” on TED.com
(via @matthewslutsky)
“To play Angry Birds, you must use a catapult to lob little birds at structures...”
– “Angry Birds and the Evolution of Man” par Matt Ridley dans WSJ.com (January 15th, 2010)
The Plinkett Review for Revenge of the Sith is... →
E-wooed gals say yes to sex. →
mandalay:
sherry:
Love Potion No. 9 has nothing on your smartphone!
Nearly 40 percent of women say that social-networking media, such as text-messaging and Facebook, are causing them to jump into the sack faster with partners than they would have in the past, according to a poll by Men’s Fitness and Shape magazines.
“The texting and all the social networking that’s happening … creates...
“Late last year there was a confluence of critical opinion in America the likes...”
– Everyone’s a critic now.
Every now and then I see this kind of story about America in the Brisith papers: the kind of story in which a critic says quite absolutely that something is true that is in fact, not at all true. Critical opinions about Franzen’s novel were seriously divided. For instance,...
“The big difference Facebook and, especially, Twitter has made is that it is...”
– Is the Age of the Critic Over? (via ayjay) Right. This is totally different from before e internet, when writing for The Guardian meant writing for a broad, global audience, and not a tiny, ideologically and sociologically homogenous clique on an island.
“We are unique as a species in our ability to point meaningfully. Chimps may draw...”
– review: Michelangelo’s Finger (via ayjay)
“The great thing about art is that it’s there whether the academic humanities are...”
– Erin O’Connor (via ayjay)
“Unfortunately, however, traditions that are not passed on from one generation to...”
– Views: Sorry - Inside Higher Ed.
I like much of this, but it is very, very wrong to suggest that there is a Western tradition — there is not even a Christian tradition. Western culture is largely a series of arguments conducted by proponents of different traditions that had their origin in or near...
“After Sadat’s death, Egypt’s foreign policy reverted to something of a nullity....”
– Noah Millman in fine form. (via mwfrost)
“Way back in the 1970s, hardware-hacker hobbyists built kit computers like the...”
– When The Drones Come Marching In
“CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good...”
– Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“Design an interface that communicates appropriately for that audience, not one...”
– Quora: What was your philosophy when designing the (awesome) interface for Mint? (via gtmcknight)
“America doesn’t have friends. America only has interests.”
– Henry Kissinger
Egypt: Mubarak’s Defiance Makes Life Harder for Obama - TIME (via mikehudack) Ha! That quote is usually attributed to de Gaulle about France.