September 2011
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“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions,...”
– John F Kennedy
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If I was a teacher, I would make a test where all...
suzannexie:
The kids would all be like:
“What is going on here?”
hahaha, that’s good.
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Refusing to Kill Daughter, Pakistani Family Defies... →
Awful.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
I’ve been thinking a lot about Orwell’s 1984 and Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. In particular, this quote from Amusing Ourselves summarizes a lot of my trepidations:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive...
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Los Campesinos!
Terrific song. Lyrics here.
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All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed... →
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Law-breaking particle at CERN exceeds the speed of... →
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Troy Davis maintains innocence in final words -... →
Chilling:
“I’d like to address the MacPhail family. Let you know, despite the situation you are in, I’m not the one who personally killed your son, your father, your brother. I am innocent. The incident that happened that night is not my fault. I did not have a gun. All I can ask … is that you look deeper into this case so that you really can finally see the truth. I ask...
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Why People Fall Out Of Love With Each Other «... →
It’s because they don’t want to know the truth, which is people can be cruel and falling in love can be just as random as falling out of love. We don’t want to think of ourselves that way, don’t want to admit that we have the capacity to be so fickle and heartless. But we do. It’s not our fault. It’s how we’re wired. If you want to blame anyone, blame whatever created us. “Hey you! Why did you...
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Euthanasia Coaster - Wikipedia, the free... →
The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.[1] In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria”.[2] As for...
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“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if...”
– Muriel Barbery in The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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An Open Letter To The People Who Hit ‘Reply All’ «... →
#firstworldproblems.
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Netflix Doesn’t Own the Qwikster Twitter Feed.... →
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Defence in Depth: Cracking OS X Lion Passwords →
[via @AnonymousIRC]
It appears Directory Services in Lion no longer requires authentication when requesting a password change for the current user. So, in order to change the password of the currently logged in user, simply use:
$ dscl localhost -passwd /Search/Users/bob
Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - CNN.com: Are... →
Very interesting read. (via q-combinator)
The Industrial Age was largely about making those jobs as menial and unskilled as possible. Technologies such as the assembly line were less important for making production faster than for making it cheaper, and laborers more replaceable. Now that we’re in the digital age, we’re using technology the same way: to increase efficiency, lay off...
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Funk. Damn it.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-071 - Important :... →
Apparently, you can’t even open a .txt on Windows without getting pwned.
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Daft Punk is my jam.
Alive 2007 is amazing.
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Totally just decided on another of my (hypothetical) dogs’ name: Kirby.
Which means, I have: Calvin (westie), Hobbes (pug), Asterix (husky/corgi), Kirby (beagle), and Humphrey (St Bernard).
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I Want To Snuggle With You « Thought Catalog →
I love love love love love Thought Catalog.
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Introducing the Subscribe Button →
Oh Facebook.
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Doorknockers: Rough Sex: Normalizing Violent... →
This.
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Yes, my friends are weird. From an email:
also, thought experiment: if you could experience someone naked in a bathtub with you without wanting to have sex with them. who would it be?
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Programming, Motherfucker →
We are tired of XP, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Software Craftsmanship (aka XP-Lite) and anything else getting in the way of…Programming, Motherfucker.
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Do You Like Me?... →
“I like you–-not in a search-optimized way, but in an old fashioned, authentic way.”
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“#1 Be healthy. Are startups all about pulling all nighters and eating ramen...”
– Five Skills You Need for Startup Success, According to Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe
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“Hope is the way we overcome the lurking suspicion that all of our getting...”
– @kris
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The costs of America's choices - The Boston Globe →
That such a decade leaves Americans increasingly pessimistic about ourselves and our future is not surprising. American history, however, is a story of recurring, impending catastrophes from which there is no apparent escape - followed by miraculous recoveries. At one of our darkest hours in 1776 when defeat at the hands of the British occupying Boston seemed almost certain, the general...
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Desensitized →
I don’t think our problem as a society is being oversexed or undersexed, exactly. I think our problem is valuing the frisson over the ability to keep ahold of our shit. We value passion over companionate love, and wonder why relationships always seem to go cold. We value spontaneity over clarity, and wonder why our sexual communication and safety suck. We value innuendo over education, and...
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Never give all the heart
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and...
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“A heavy weight of hours has chain’d and bow’d
One too like...”
– PB Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
Wait, wasn’t Twitter supposed to be dead by now? –... →
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Sitting in the quad lawn in beautiful weather with the moon peaking out below a clear blue sky while playing with three different dogs. I think this wins the “perfect moment of the day” award.
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“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the...”
– Albert Camus
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The Things You Can Expect When I Fall In Love With... →
Cute.
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Twitter Blog: One hundred million voices →
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