November 2009
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“… the era when everyone’s money was equally green is ending; technology...”
– “Value Crisis, Immaterial Labor and Monetized Selfhood,” Generation Bubble
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“Charisma is a personal characteristic like intelligence. A place, an idea, even...”
– Glamorous or Charismatic? Deep Glamour
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“We grew up on these sites, far before they became the trendy places to “reach...”
– A/S/L « Our American Shelf Life (via nicolesanberg)
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“Soooo…what’d I miss while I was gone? It doesn’t make much...”
– Tavi, “home!” style rookie
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No More Photos
No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I’m watery, I ripple,...
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Jarvis Cocker, “One hell of a party.”
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“If this is her game of Scrabble, you can only imagine what her foreign policy...”
– Tyler Cowen breaks down Sarah Palin’s scrabble strategy, as revealed in “Going Rogue.” Marginal Revolution
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“Music for bus journeys is different to music for driving; sitting behind the...”
– I like my bus journey songs to have a narrative; ‘cinematic mini-epics’ by Laura Barton (via flourhoneymilk)
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“As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science...”
– President Barack Obama, speaking to Washington DC schoolchildren (BotJunkie via clembastow)
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“We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able...”
– Brian Eno, “The death of uncool” Prospect Magazine
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100 Notable Books of 2009 →
The New York Times
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“Now this has now become a question not simply of the environmental...”
– Malcolm Turnbull
The hottest people on the internet in China in... →
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“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is...”
– Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect,” from Slouching Towards Bethlehem (via britticisms)
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“People often take to complaining about how people dress, when they’re actually...”
– Morehouse’s New Dress-Code - Ta-Nehisi Coates (via britticisms)
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“Natalie Portman popped headphones onto Zach Braff’s head and said flatly, “This...”
– How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music PopMatters
A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for... →
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“Is there a bifurcation of self?- is there, can there be, a self that exists...”
– wrote Meaghan O’Connell
Yes.
Because the present me is horribly different from the past me (which is why I’m glad I torched my old blogs and retain the barest scraps of old journals), the future me will be horribly different from the present me (and I already resent him and he will resent me for...
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Swiss chard and sweet potato gratin recipe →
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“On one side, people are speaking the language of efficiency: of online networks,...”
– If you listen closely, you’ll discern that this question is tearing apart the entire marketing-media ecosystem, with combatants staking out positions on either side of an increasingly great divide via I, A Bee
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In China, Obama’s Umbrella Habits Set a Standard →
via Charles Frith
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“Take the dandelion: a single dandelion may produce 2,000 seeds per year,...”
– Cory Doctorow, Think Like a Dandelion
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“The net is an unending NOW of moments and distractions and wonderments and...”
– Cory Doctorow, Think Like a Dandelion
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