February 2012
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January 2012
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“I am a woman going mad. I am a woman hallucinating. I imagine I am huge, raw, a...”
– Excerpt from Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry. pp. 121 - 123.
She wrote this in 1989, but Jeanette Winterson was way ahead of her time. Love this passage from Sexing the Cherry, an altogether wonderful, amazing book.
“The Pirate Bay is truly an international community. The team is spread all over...”
– still upside down:
“I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the...”
– Jeanette Winterson - ‘Sexing the Cherry’
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December 2011
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The Habits of Creative People →
The No. 1 Creative Habit In a word: solitude. Creativity flourishes in solitude. With quietness, you can hear your thoughts, you can reach deep within yourself, and you can focus. Of course, there are lots of ways to find this solitude. Felicia Day—actress (…) Day says makes “sure to be creative first thing in the morning, before doing anything for the outside world, really sets the day...
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“Sometimes I look through my news feed and imagine all the wonderful people...”
– Facebook status update by Alfian Sa’at
And yet, things seem more hopeless and bleak than ever.
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“Call me what you wish
and no matter what that is
I will call you home.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
What a beautiful haiku. :) Reminds me of the ocean.
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy (via thenewavengers, angwe & moorehn)
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November 2011
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“I don’t think there will be anything else that I do in my life as important as...”
– A personal appeal from Wikipedia programmer Brandon Harris
I think this is so wonderfully phrased. Gonna donate some money to Wikipedia when I get home - I wiki stuff at least 3-5 times every day, it’s the least I can do. Also, go him for focusing on the why!
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The Places You Don’t Walk Away From →
I started out making this post in the quote category, and then realised I had pasted more than half the article into the quote field. This is a wonderful, heartfelt piece on losing ourselves to the daily grind, and having the courage to let go and walk away from that. It very nicely expresses how soul-killing losing yourself to work can be, and even though it’s terrifying, how reviving it...
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“Extreme disparity and deep inequality generate a double standard with profound...”
– Nature is the 99%, too
“For years, I thought I knew vaguely who I was, and the kind of things I liked....”
– Charlie Brooker: I have been murdered and replaced with a suspicious facsimile. In running shoes
An extremely hilarious take on finding yourself suddenly liking exercise. I’ve realised that I enjoy running slightly, but I can only hope to find myself this obsessed with running a few months...
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Dumping your iPhone and not looking back →
“One of the hardest things to get used to was being unable to instantly share my awesome and horrible experiences with my friends online. Now, I write down my impressions in a notebook, and by the time I get back to a computer, they rarely feel like must-tweets. I’m forced to slog through the tedium of waiting, to wrestle with dull passages and slow scenes, to grapple with confusing and...
October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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“This is what modern water conflict looks like: neighbors fighting with...”
– Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte; p. 17
The Rape of Men →
It reminds me of a scene described by Eunice Owiny: “There is a married couple,” she said. “The man has been raped, the woman has been raped. Disclosure is easy for the woman. She gets the medical treatment, she gets the attention, she’s supported by so many organisations. But the man is inside, dying.” “In a nutshell, that’s exactly what happens,”...
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““I bedded a fishmaid once who told me the lowborn have a choicer way to put it....”
– Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
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June 2011
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“As China moves to become the world’s largest economy by 2025, and as its leaders...”
– Vincent Wijeysinghe’s planned speech at the Liberal International’s 57th Congress
May 2011
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Rewired
I think working life has rewired me to be happier on work days than on “unofficial” days off. I realized this when after having been on medical leave yesterday, and felt really twitchy and weird an even apprehensive about the day ending about the day ending without me having done any work.
In contrast, I felt a lot calmer when walking out of work today, knowing I had gotten (some)...
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“Let us shake off this oppressive shroud of sycophancy and unquestioning homage...”
– Lee Kuan Yew (New Year’s Day message, 1965)
April 2011
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Dave Hakkens →
I love his business card idea. :) So simple yes so brilliant!
March 2011
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February 2011
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Dirty.
I think everybody should watch this talk. More importantly, I just read an article on the New York Times that made me realise that key decisionmakers in companies like BP should be strapped into painful, uncomfortable chairs, have their eyes forced open with rusty nails and be made to watch this talk over and over until they cry for their mothers. And then some.
The article I read was about...
