January 2012
35 posts
Pixies, Where Is My Mind
“I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human,...”
– n+1, sad as hell (via ninakix)
Nicolas Jaar, And I Say ft. Scout LaRue &...
Pentagon Scientists Use 'Time Hole' to Make Events... →
What?
The Rapture, Sail Away (Cut Copy Remix)
25 Teeny Tiny Ways To Be A Lot More Fabulous →
Joe Tex, The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)
The 45 Places to Go in 2012 →
This is one reason Mr. Brûlé has no plans for a Monocle magazine app yet: on an iPad, no one can see you reading Monocle.
“So many media companies these days forget the power of the brand, of people actually displaying, and wearing, the media brand,” he said. “In public circumstances where you have to choose a seat, you can look at a person’s shoes, you can look at their luggage, and oftentimes,...
it’s like a jungle sometimes.
“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are...”
– “Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue | [via thatluciegirl]
“Masculinity” is as damaging to men as “Femininity” is to women. Neither is something to aspire to. Women who understand this are called feminists. Men who understand this aren’t called anything yet, but maybe they can just be called feminists too.
- This Record, In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any Boys’ Club
As though I didn't love 'Haiku for the Single... →
“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational,” he wrote in an e-mail. “It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.”
- David Carr, The Danger of...
The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is...
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words...”
– T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
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December 2011
36 posts
eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life other expected of me.
I wish I didn’t work so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I’d stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
“Be always at war with your Vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New...”
– Benjamin Franklin
6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011 →
wait what, Take Care of You (Drake vs Gil Scott...
Shouldn’t we have a category for endangered words? Perhaps we need a system of adopting words to keep them safe and well, the way people adopt favourite stretches of highway. We would sign up, promise to use our chosen words as often as possible and of course object when they are misused or threatened with abandonment.
I wouldn’t choose anything unspellable or obscurely classy, like...
Lisa Mitchell, Neopolitan Dreams
