January 2009
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All the Good Things →
I asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish the assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed me the papers. That Saturday, I wrote down...
“This is why our problem is not just economic; it’s spiritual. We have mistaken...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (via lilyb) (via steph)
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Hem - Leave Me Here
“I have been here...
“You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”
– Natalie Babbit’s Tuck Everlasting (via littlemiss) (via funkylove)
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“Our president’s approval rating is somewhere between pictures of baby pandas on...”
– Rachel Maddow (via uoma) (via soupsoup)
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On one of the first pages in Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis is a line:
The Moon’s gone down, but Alone I lie.
Reading this threw me for a loop, since I had also just started reading The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck and I fully forgot which book I was reading. I wonder, and I think, that Orson Scott Card’s line from Ender’s Game:
the enemy’s gate is down
must...
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Peace, Fam?
simplyann:
Now, more than ever, communities are coming together to support each other and, most importantly, educate each other. Because the Lupoes should have had another source of income. Because the Lupoes should have had some way to weather economic storms. Because these secrets of wealth and financial security shouldn’t be privileged information. And then, today, I learned that another...
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soupsoup:
“At a time when most of these institutions were teetering on collapse and were asking taxpayers to help sustain them and when taxpayers find themselves in the difficult position that if they don’t provide help that the entire system could come down on top of our heads, that is at the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful. We are going to be having conversations as we move forward...
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“=@ shall henceforth represent “I just licked the cake batter before the...”
– Tom via unalone
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Recipe Key →
soupsoup:
sporkorfoon:
My new favorite website. Thanks to AdamIss for sharing this with me!
The website has a virtual pantry where you enter all of the foods you have at home and it will find recipes based on what you have available. …if you don’t have everything, it will create a shopping list for you (and categorize the items so you can get around the supermarket easily).
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination...”
– A. Einstein (via tlow)
What real life bad habits has programming given... →
marco:
I temporize way too much in conversation. Things that anyone else would say as fact, I will still throw a “probably” or “perhaps” on, because I know there could always be that one edge case where a meteor strikes my neighborhood and I wouldn’t after all be able to make it out that day to Thanksgiving dinner.
Check out the later pages, too.
I throw my important documents into a...
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of...”
– Carl Jung (via reckon)
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“slogans are short stories for impatient hooligans like me”
– via cursivebuildings
Will the Obama Administration uphold the Rule of...
dahweh:
Many people are asking: Will the Obama/Holder Justice Department prosecute Bush Administration officials for their willful breaking of domestic and international law and their corrupt abuses of power?
…the Bush Administration set an incredibly bad precedent. What happens when the next time an American president wants to torture, or employ extraordinary rendition, or otherwise...
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Major Study of Chinese Americans Debunks 'Model...
spaceships:
vaughnshirley:
Chinese Americans, one of the most highly educated groups in the nation, are confronted by a “glass ceiling,” unable to realize full occupational stature and success to match their efforts, concludes a new study from the University of Maryland.
The returns on Chinese Americans’ investment in education and “sweat equity” are “generally lower than those in the general...
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“I said there is no justice
As they led me out of the door
And the judge said,...”
– [via Squeelypiggy]
Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor →
hello-therelove:
itsnotovertonight:
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bravery:
homecoming:New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.
who else has blue eyes?
i do
I don’t,...
George R.R. Martin, you are really hurting peoples’ feelings.
from the Amazon forum:
Ohio Snow:
2013 sounds about right; or possibly never. I heard one of his release dates was simply a cruel joke (April Fool’s). Well, I have to say that I gave up a few hundred dollars in work I could have been (and should have been) doing for the sake of buying his book and taking the rest of the...
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In Tumblr I cannot use any <DIV>s or apply <ACRONYM>s in any of my posts, nor may I include headers or descriptions with conversation posts. This is highly displeasing.
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Bush War on Roquefort Cheese →
[link via Emily]
The United States, it turns out, has declared war on Roquefort cheese.
In its final days, the Bush administration imposed a 300 percent duty on Roquefort, in effect closing off the U.S. market. Americans, it declared, will no longer get to taste the creamy concoction that, in its authentic, most glorious form, comes with an odor of wet sheep and veins of blue mold that go...
“Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.”
– Lisa Hoffman (via kari-shma)
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