January 2011
52 posts
I’m going to start wearing a sign that says, “What do you want from me?”
Study: Four seconds is all it takes for silence to... →
today:
Researchers, hard at work.
“A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has...”
– Five Emotions Invented By The Internet « Thought Catalog (via interestingsnippets)
“Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll take a shot....”
– Will Hunting (via ryking)
“You know, I want to just advise people watching at home playing that now popular...”
– Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, ranting during this week’s House debate on the repeal of the health care reform bill. (via officialssay)
At least someone in Congress gets it.
Forty Years Later: How 'Oregon Trail' Was Born →
theatlantic:
longreads:
For the next two weeks, Dillenberger and Heinemann spent each night wedged into a tiny computer office—a former janitor’s closet at Bryant Junior High School—tapping code into a teletype machine. The teletype was a screen-less, electromechanical typewriter connected via telephone to a mainframe computer that could issue prompts, receive commands, and run primitive...
slowlybecoming:
Noah And The Whale - Give A...
Literally, one thing went right today. One. That is all.
brooklynmutt:
Empire State of Mind, Jay-Z,...
Deep Blue Something - “Breakfast at...
And speaking of XTina: O-Town band members tweet... →
timeoutnewyork:
entertainmentweekly:
The 13-year-old girl inside of us is hyperventilating and rending her garments. Remember that time you slow-danced to “All or Nothing” and it was the most romantic thing ever??
When we were 13, we were slow-dancing to “On Bended Knee” by Boyz II Men. Now we feel old.
In freshman year of high school, we were in some Survivor-style radio contest where the...
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a... →
joshgee:
YES
Ditto.
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
“Is it possible that Iran’s blustering president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, long...”
– Reza Aslan thinks the West may have Ahmadinejad all wrong.
Read the full article here.
(via theatlantic)
“We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat...”
– President Obama (via brooklynmutt)
“Intellectually, she seems not to be able to understand what’s going on here.”
– Rep. James Clyburn on Palin’s use of the term “blood libel.” (via brooklynmutt)
Dedicated to anyone who tries to, once again, make the argument that Sarah Palin is smarter than we give her credit for. Give me a friggin break.
“It would be really nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn’t in any way...”
– Jon Stewart (via gbattle)
“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily -...”
– Robert Kennedy (via azspot)
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
Random, unnecessary thought of the night: Dashboard Confessional’s ‘The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most’ is still one of my favorite albums of all time.
I now give you permission to judge me.
