February 2012
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CNN:
At $500 billion, Apple is worth more than Poland
Business Insider:
Ugh, No, Apple Is Not Worth More Than Poland
Remind me why we pay attention to CNN?
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Words I can't spell without spellcheck
Hierarchy
Privileges
Bureaucracy
Thorough
Caffeine
Medieval
Guarantee
Village
Questionnaire
Relevant
Caesar
Frustrated
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Sabotage
“Romney won Mackinac County by 1 vote. 667 votes to Santorum’s, wait for it, 666...”
– Chuck Todd (via captainrobocop)
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ordinarypolarity asked: I would love to use one of your Arendt quote designs as my Facebook profile picture or cover pic. I will absolutely not do this without your explicit permission, as your name is not directly on the image, but I was wondering if you would mind? I would cite your tumblr underneath the photo if you granted permission. (These really are excellent designs)
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“The Republican brand is in a state of collapse – over 50 percent of voters give...”
– Democracy Corps
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“President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college, what a snob.”
– Rick Santorum
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“I believe and I think that the right approach is to accept this horribly...”
– Rick Santorum, explaining why he favors laws forcing rape survivors to have their rapist’s baby
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“Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has...”
– Rick Santorum (via spytap)
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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will...”
– Margaret Atwood (via justaturnofthedial)
smanifesto:
We’re writing today to ask you to please boycott all Streetlight related items by not purchasing any of our records or merchandise from Victory’s website, any traditional CD stores, online third party retailers or any digital distribution service (iTunes, Amazon etc). Victory has a long-time reputation of pocketing all of the proceeds from a band’s music and merch, with shady...
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“Cards Against Humanity was a Kickstarter project created by Chicagoan Max...”
– Dude I Want That
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“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright,...”
– Banksy
Jazz musician Dave Golberg, An open letter to L.A. club owners:
But lets think about this for a second and turn this around a little bit.What if I told the wine bar owner that I have a great band and we are going to play at my house. I need someone to provide and pour wine while we play. I can’t pay much, just $75 and you must bring at least 25 people who are willing to pay a $10 cover charge at...
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Janette: Could you cut me a break, please?
Road Home Official: I cut you one, I have to cut everyone else one too, and then where would we be?
Janette: I don’t know. We’d all get a break, then?
Matt Groening on fighting with FOX for creative control over Futurama:
You can’t believe what babies people are. It’s really like being in junior high school. [With] the bullies, and every step of the way, any time I’ve been gracious, that has been — it’s seen as a sign of weakness. And every time I’ve yelled back, I’ve been treated with respect....
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Saving Zelda
Tevis Thompson:
If Zelda is to reclaim any of the spirit that Miyamoto first invested in its world… it needs to make most of the map accessible from the beginning. No artificial barriers to clumsily guide Link along a set course… Link must be allowed to enter areas he’s not ready for. He must be allowed to be defeated, not blocked, by the world and its inhabitants.
This world,...
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“Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it. In...”
– Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
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Goose Island brewery in Chicago has a “beer-fed pork” program:
When we finish brewing a batch of beer, farmers come and take our left over spent grain to feed their pigs. We then buy those pigs and serve them to you alongside your beer. Recycling has never been more delicious.
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“Yes, the government can help, but the idea that the federal government should be...”
– Rick Santorum, calling for the abolition of public schools
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Republican sex scandals of the week:
Rising Republican star Sheriff Paul Babeu threatened his Mexican boyfriend with deportation to conceal their relationship
Local Tea Party co-founder arrested in prostitution sting
Futility Closet:
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the tiny town of Vernon in Florida’s panhandle gained a disturbing reputation for insurance fraud. Only 500 people lived in Vernon, but fully 10 percent of these (all men) reported they had lost arms, legs, and fingers. For a brief period this region of Florida accounted for two-thirds of all loss-of-limb claims in the United States.
“Somehow...
“In Nyasaland, Africa, a native tribe got into the custom of taking names from a...”
– Mario Pei, The Story of Language
“How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200...”
– Charles de Gaulle
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Since 1969, Daniel Dennett has turned philosophers’ names into usable words in the Philosophical Lexicon. Some of my favorites:
buber, v. To struggle in a morass of one’s own making. “After I defined the self as a relation that relates to itself relatingly, I bubered around for three pages.” Hence buber, n. one who bubers. “When my mistake was pointed out to me, I felt...
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over,...”
– Matt Groening (via bensgrabbag)
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