January 2012
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It becomes a tragic period in our nation when we equate dissent with disloyalty....
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make...
– Brian Eno (via shelbot)
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My Year in Cities 2011
Naples, FL
North Kingston, RI
Las Vegas, NV
Yountville, CA
Barcelona, Spain
Bogotá, Colombia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
London, United Kingdom
Whistler, British Colombia
New York City, NY*
Ocean City, NJ*
Philadelphia, PA*
* indicates cities visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.
On the horizon for 2012: Jamaica, London.
Entirely ripped-off/inspired by kottke.org.
December 2011
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My first objection about mobile phones when they got popular was that everybody...
– Merlin Mann on mobile phones (via Roderick on the Line)
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Lists of Note: Take What You Need →
youmightfindyourself:
Baseball player Don Carman had grown so tired of mundane post-game interviews by 1990 that he decided to forego them altogether, and instead attached a handwritten list of stock responses to his locker along with a message to reporters: “You saw the game. Take what you need.” The list read as follows:
1. I’m just glad to be here. I just want to help the club any way I...
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Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Talent will not;...
– Calvin Coolidge (via monamade)
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November 2011
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As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot...
– Julio Diaz, in a 2008 story about taking his would-be-mugger to dinner.This entire story was copied and pasted in its entirety to Tumblr, and reblogged over 60,000 times. I’m posting it again, with just a teaser, to properly attribute it back to NPR, where it originated. Please, don’t copy and paste...
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I don’t write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
– Joan Didion last night at the New York Public Library
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up. If it’s...
– Ai Weiwei
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Reggie Watts covers Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town”