October 2011
64 posts
Oct 30th
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“Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind. (via ruineshumaines) [side note: I HIGHLY recommend this book;  Zafón’s language is gorgeous & insightful.]
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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“You’re blowing it with Fox News,” [Steve] Jobs told [Rupert Murdoch] over...”
– Huffington Post: Steve Jobs: Fox News ‘A Destructive Force In Our Society’
Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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“But wait!” I can hear you wail. “We’re Americans! We love nothing more than to...”
– Hurry up, get more done, and die – Mark Morford on the perils of perpetual busyness and productivity-culture.  (via curiositycounts)
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 24th
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs in a 1995 Wired interview, one of 200 profound, inspirational, insightful quotes in I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (via curiositycounts)
Oct 23rd
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Oct 22nd
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It's time to Occupy Hollywood  →
A condensed accounting of the more poignant points: We like to think of the 1 percent as evil bankers — oh, and they totally are. But it is also our movie stars and television icons, and their fans are making that inequity possible. I don’t want Johnny Depp (who brought in $50 million last year) to stop making movies, or Lady Gaga ($90 million) to stop banging on the piano. But at a certain...
Oct 22nd
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“Wilco or Die”
Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
“I’m a big believer in boredom. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, and...”
– Steve Jobs (via mlarson: “Sort of paraphrasing here”)
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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bringing the laws of gaming to life
Oct 20th
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This Be The Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And...
Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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I like when the music happens like this: Something in His eye grabs hold of a tambourine in me, then I turn and lift a violin in someone else, and they turn, and this turning continues; it has reached you now. Isn’t that something? ~Rumi
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 12th
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