December 2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Muse (30)
Stars (22)
Sébastien Tellier (12)
Amy Macdonald (10)
Au Revoir Simone (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“One wild card is how angry the American people might get. Unlike the 1930s, we...”
– James Howard Kunstler (via azspot)
“The mass media of the 20th Century were based on control: monopolistic and...”
– Dan Gillmor (via azspot)
“The whiteness is like the soul, people say; it should not even be stained with...”
– Rice in Japan: You are what you eat | The Economist (via evangotlib)
“Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and...”
– St. Augustine (via azspot)
The Empty Bits of Life →
jingc:
It’s great to have a smartphone that can keep you occupied during those mindless waiting times. On the other hand, there is this downside:
The serendipitous gaps that used to be part of even the most hectic modern life can now be reduced to near zero. The emotional muscles stretched by those moments of emptiness — the ability to tune into one’s self, to tolerate the anxieties that swim...
“Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things...”
– Brian Eno (via azspot)
“Once poverty is gone, we’ll need to build museums to display its horrors to...”
– Muhammad Yunus (via brettjohn, caraobrien & tameourways & jesuisperdu) (via dubliner)
Watchjingc:
How to properly heat a pan (via Metafilter)
You would think this video would be boring with a title like that, but it’s quite fascinating. The idea is basically this: the pan is the perfect temperature when you drop a teaspoon of water in and the water skates around the pan in a perfect sphere. The accompanying article goes into great depths about the physics behind this phenomenon as...
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
– Michel de Montaigne (via somethingintellectual)
“Like Tinley, Carr is what his former kennedy School professor Herman (Dutch)...”
– A Reporter at Large: The Monkey and the Fish: The New Yorker (via evangotlib)
“The thing I never stop marveling over in Africa is the economic scale,” he said....”
– A Reporter at Large: The Monkey and the Fish: The New Yorker (via evangotlib)
shaneblog:
Empire State of Mind (Ft. Alicia...
