January 2012
1 post
519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an...
December 2011
1 post
kathleenjoy:
MATING RITUALS CONDUCTED ENTIRELY THROUGH LIKE, STAR, RETWEET AND CLICKING AN ICON OF A HEART.
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
2 posts
If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which WEALTH, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while POWER remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the...
September 2011
2 posts
She’d thought of that as going with the flow, but maybe, she thinks now, it had really been the path of least resistance. What if that flow naturally tended to the path of least resistance? Where does that take you? “Down the tube,” she says aloud, causing a very good-looking young Asian man, walking parallel with her, to start, and look at her with brief alarm. She smiles in reassurance, ...
August 2011
1 post
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July 2011
2 posts
“Passive Aggressive emailing tip:
if they piss you off, spell their name wrong.”
– via lants
June 2011
2 posts
poetic Tumblr: 'Aubade' by Philip Larkin →
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Arid interrogation: yet the dread Of dying, and being dead, Flashes afresh to hold and horrify. The mind...
May 2011
2 posts
yes or no?: the grind →
yesnoerica:
I remember a time when I found the daily commute dehumanising.
I was one of millions who’d scrabbled out of bed, bloodshot and gasping, undertaking a circadian ritual of wash/brush/swallow before dragging my under-nourished carcass to my local railway station to fight with the other millions for one uncomfortable seat. We’d sit there, judging each other by our choice of author,...
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10 albums
Don’t take too long to think about it. Ten albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first ten you can recall in no more than ten minutes.
► rage against the machine - rage against the machine (1992) super passionate political rock. stand-out tracks: -bombtrack -know your enemy -freedom
►karnivool - themata (2005) australian prog metal, an instant...
April 2011
5 posts
“While people were lining up for a few handfuls of rice in less fortunate...”
– the punch
March 2011
2 posts
The truth of liberal democracies is that their existence has been dependent on the deprivation of citizens elsewhere in the world. That it has celebrated freedom at home while effectively supporting repression abroad. This is an inconvenient truth that has been carefully kept out of the mainstream ‘conversation’, which, when questioned at all has been deflected with the tired argument of all...
“You think you’re special? You’re not. Everyone’s the same, everyone lies,...”
– Izaya Orihara (via shadan)
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
2 posts
December 2010
2 posts
“If physical life was your sole purpose, a mere existence would be satisfying.”
– ungerik
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a...”
– Dennis Wholey (via jmarie3)
or…. why do bad things happen to good people?
bad things happen to everyone, deal with it and move on.
November 2010
4 posts
“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”
– Oscar Wilde / via nevver /(via theopie)
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
3 posts
“Let’s take Facebook as an example. Currently it’s valued at ~$25 billion by the...”
– COGNITIVE SLAVES - Global Guerrillas (via m1k3y)
it depends if the value is really in the content… or if it’s in the connections. similar to the value of some businesses is in their reputation, contacts and client list. intangible assets, are extremely hard to value, so it goes with...
August 2010
3 posts
…how darkly the dark hand met his end, he was withered and boney, exposed for a phoney, but we heed the last words that he penned, “haste to disgrace the traitor, do not wait til later”. I don’t think that you’ve got to pretend, I see God in birds and Satan in long words, but I know what you need in a friend, so now when I leave you, I hope I won’t see...
July 2010
5 posts
The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its “copyright infringement” claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000.
via
Prof Tim Jackson on “Prosperity without...
June 2010
4 posts
“never allow anecdotes to masquerade as principles”
– the ad contrarian
re: imogen heap
…”With few album sales there’s little to pay for the tour. I can’t sustain it. Time to rethink!”…
Lefsetz comment:
…”If it’s money Ms. Heap wants, she can sell out. She can be a songwriter for hire, do endorsements, take all offers. But she wants to be an artist. That’s admirable. But she’s not entitled...
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives...”
– Thomas Paine (via rocketjumper)
May 2010
5 posts
