August 2010
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Beatles - Real Love - Anthology
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There’s nothing more passive aggressive than Tumblr. Well, there’s the silent treatment, sure. But then there’s Tumblr.
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“According to surveys by the Codex Group, a consultant to the publishing...”
– A ridiculous Times article outlining the case for YA because pseudo-hip adults just love to justify what is clearly a literary case of laziness, stupidity and denial.
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Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again
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“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of...”
– Diary, Chuck Palahniuk (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
– Roseanne Barr (via sarahkunst)
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“It’s of some interest that the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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How Google Could Build a Better Social Network →
soupsoup:
Rumors that Google was starting a Facebook competitor named “Google Me” first surfaced in June, right after the latest wave of anti-Facebook furor. Clearly, there is an opportunity to challenge Facebook for the social networking title. If Google is in it to win it, however, the company has to do a few things that Facebook isn’t doing—as well as a few things that Google has failed at...
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Nightclub
You are so beautiful and I am a fool
to be in love with you
is a theme that keeps coming up
in songs and poems.
There seems to be no room for variation.
I have never heard anyone sing
I am so beautiful
and you are a fool to be in love with me,
even though this notion has surely
crossed the minds of women and men alike.
You are so beautiful, too bad you are a fool
is another one you...
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“The article mentions the bad economy only twice, both times by dismissing its...”
– Derek Thompson — The Atlantic — What’s Really the Matter With 20-Somethings
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don't blame it on the a-a-a-a-al-co-hol
jennydeluxe:
A British researcher may have unlocked the mystery of the effect known in unsubtle circles as the idea that the more you have to drink, the more attractive those around you become.
Halsey found that as we drink, we lose our ability to perceive asymmetry. Essentially, the drunker you get, the more attractive everyone around you gets.
“All people have some asymmetry,” said Halsey....
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plittly:
My dad wants to buy a motorcycle, apparently.This could end either horribly or hilariously.
When my dad had his mid-life crisis, he bought a bar. I just turned 21. It turned out awesomely.
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This is not our regularly scheduled rant!
soupsoup:
langer:
Meanwhile, outlets like The Paris Review and The Economist are making no attempt whatsoever to engage an audience, using their Tumblrs instead as just another channel for inbound links to their existing websites. Which is fine! Until, of course, that sort of good old fashioned link-whoring gets billed as the second coming of journalism.
Come down from your ivory towers,...
“It’s not really a new scam, it’s sort of the oldest scam in the world in which...”
– Alex Pareene (via soupsoup)
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(Here’s another song about a gender...
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Places We Used To Go: Quick survey: are the AM NY... →
placesweusedtogo:
lindsaykap:
Quick survey: are the AM NY people as aggressive at your subway stop as they are at mine? Actually, I’d say 80% of my followers work from home so maybe this isn’t a great group to survey. I genuinely think the AM NY people at the A/C/E at 34th and the B/D/N/Q at Herald Square are safety hazards…
Yes! What is up with these dudes? How does anyone resist the urge...
Places We Used To Go: Quick survey: are the AM NY... →
Quick survey: are the AM NY people as aggressive at your subway stop as they are at mine? Actually, I’d say 80% of my followers work from home so maybe this isn’t a great group to survey. I genuinely think the AM NY people at the A/C/E at 34th and the B/D/N/Q at Herald Square are safety hazards…
Yes! What is up with these dudes? How does anyone resist the urge to dump all those papers...
“After all, if you had to wait until you were perfect to fall in love, there...”
– Jacob Clifton, Television Without Pity (via meanttobefree) (via girlwithlandscape)
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