February 2010
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“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinborough (via pacificcru) (via kendalllouise) (via nihilnoetia) (via libraryland) (via huliwuxian)
January 2010
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I miss my Care Bear days.
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what if...
blinksoflife:
I know this is random…but it’ll be fun to discover what people would do given a situation.
This could either ruin your days, or you might discover hidden dreams you have inside all these while. So let’s play a “what if…” game.
We all have heard about the mayan prophecy of 2012, or the so called Nibiru planet that will hit Earth, and others like it.
Some of us think that this is...
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Winter Restaurant Week Returns to DC!
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grumpypantalones:
In my own words, this is Restaurant Week:
What: Exploring food at “the best” restaurants in DC [to figure out if they’re really one of the best without spending too much of your hard earned Jackson, Grant, and Franklin’s].
When: January 11 - 17
Where: At the top of my the list as one of the best Urban places to live, DC
To read about it from an actual...
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (via creativelymaladjusted)
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… The real issue is not consumption itself but its patterns and effects.
… Inequalities in consumption are stark. Globally, the 20% of the world’s people in the highest-income countries account for 86% of total private consumption expenditures — the poorest 20% a minuscule 1.3%. More specifically, the richest fifth:
* Consume 45% of all meat and fish, the poorest fifth 5% * Consume 58% of...
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crashinglybeautiful: myserendipities:
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson
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“When we started out we were afraid of sounding like other artists,” Erlend says. “But now we feel pretty much alone.” But the most striking thing about this album is how powerfully it reminds you that making music together is not a game, it’s not something to be undertaken lightly, this record is part of a much larger picture, a long and involved relationship that has had its good and bad...
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
— East of Eden, John Steinbeck
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