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“People take life at different speeds and one way is not necessarily superior to...”
– DailyOM (via blissfulself)
and another thing ...: 235. San Antonio, Texas... →
romanticplaces:
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I went there about 3 years ago and it will alway be ingrained in my memory. They have a very historic riverwalk that’s so beautiful pictures don’t do it justice. I went there during the week of Halloween and got to…
“It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction...”
– Albert Einstein (via revolutionnow)
NYC Digital: “…high-tech employment in New York... →
nycdigital:
“…high-tech employment in New York is, much like Yipit, on the move, shooting up by 30 percent in the last five years, at a time when overall private-sector employment has decreased. New York recently surpassed Boston in the amount of venture capital invested in Internet start-ups, and lags…
“most people ignore opportunity. it’s usually dressed up in overalls and looks...”
– thomas edison (via journalofajournalist)
“Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely...”
– Alice Hoffman, Blackbird House (via bookoasis)
All The Angry People →
peterwknox:
Kachel had four hundred and fifty dollars from the sale of his copy of Final Cut Pro. For two hundred and fifty, you could travel to New York City on a Greyhound bus. He had never been farther east than Dallas, but New York City was so dense and diverse, and so full of ideas and ways to make money, that if he could learn to exist there he could surely find a place to exist. On the...
“Now that the news ecology has turned from verdant to desert-like, particularly...”
– Tom Stites argues that a co-op model may be an answer for journalism in the US. This is the third article in a three part series for Nieman Journalism Lab on where web journalism stands today.
Read the full article: Might the new web journalism model be neither for-profit nor nonprofit? (via...
“But sometimes a customer will pick up a book, examine it, maybe read the first...”
– Browse at a Bookstore, Buy at Amazon: The Evil of Showrooming | Entertainment | TIME.com (via peterwknox)
A Message To Women From A Man: You Are Not “Crazy”... →
debaucheryandthings:
“YOU’RE SO SENSITIVE. YOU’RE SO EMOTIONAL. YOU’RE DEFENSIVE. YOU’RE OVERREACTING. CALM DOWN. RELAX. STOP FREAKING OUT! YOU’RE CRAZY! I WAS JUST JOKING, DON’T YOU HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR? YOU’RE SO DRAMATIC. JUST GET OVER IT ALREADY!”
READ THIS ARTICLE RIGHT NOW!
“Well, the story of all my addictions is that I sort of get just far enough down...”
– “Real America is Ikea”: The TFT Interview with ‘Field Guide to the North American Family’ Author Garth Risk Hallberg « Faster Books (via peterwknox)
Watchonaissues:
UNC students working with News 21 have created an intereactive interface exploring America’s relationship with coal for this year’s Powering Our Nation. Coal: A love story features videos, graphics, and a handful of learning resources, including how to calculate your coal use. It’s worth clicking around to see top-notch student work.
The video above, Born into Coal, was created by...
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
– Muthafuckin’ Yoda (via nathanielswhite)
“Part of the issue here is the cult of the presidency. We hold the president...”
– Jonathan Chait
The Two Crises And The Triumph Of Magical Thinking | The New Republic
In complete agreement here.
(via think4yourself)
A.M.KRAUSS: “I’m not telling you to make the world... →
71revisited:
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To…
“The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by...”
– Paul Myers (via caitie-did)
“I know well many of the mega-rich and, by and large, they are very decent...”
– Warren Buffett • Arguing in an editorial for the New York Times (titled, fittingly, “Stop coddling the super-rich”) that Congress needs to raise his taxes and those of people with incomes topping $1 million. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress,” he...
Library Bars! →
ilovereadingandwriting:
Several drinking establishments have lined their walls and shelves with everything from hardbound classics and modern novels to law encyclopedias and philosophical tomes.
(Go to the site to read more about it!)
