March 2009
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“Take a picture/screenshot of the weather forecast, then take a picture of the...”
– With the aim of getting you to “do a new thing every day,” Tweak Today sets little missions like this and people share the result. Cute.
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“As a survivor of the postage-stamp era, college was my big chance to doff the...”
– The Way We Live Now - Growing Up on Facebook - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets) (via cityhall)
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McSweeney's: Secure Website Authentification... →
What is your mother’s maiden name?
What is your older sister’s favorite Monopoly game piece?
Who did your paternal grandfather vote for in the 1956 presidential election?
Why did you choose a liberal-arts degree when your entire family urged you to go into finance?
In what year did you begin working on your novel?
How many weeks away was graduation when you dropped out of college?
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“There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit...”
– John Gruber (via tmblg)(via monkeytypist)
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“The irrational exuberance that people felt about the stock market several years...”
– The best part of this Advertising Age article is his friend’s description of Twitter: “so easy to be maudlin, so easy to pollute.”
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“… rage is itself an attractive part of the process because it feels so...”
– Creative destruction
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“Why use a complicated tool that’s a hassle to clean when a simple one will...”
– Use a Rock to Crush Garlic. Lifehacker has officially jumped the shark.
buyhercandy: As a fellow wearer of red nail polish, I feel compelled to ask: what brand (and colour) is that?
It’s something I forget from OPI… but the best red nail polish of all time is Natio in Ruby for $9.95 at chemists!
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“I hope you will always remember to behave yourself with suitable decorum in...”
– From the letters of Evelyn Waugh, in congratulation to Lady Mary Lygon for her election to the London Library in 1946 (via Amy Eichsteadt) (via luminol)
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Internet 101
soupsoup:
Some folks, especially on tumblr, still do not realize the basics of the internet.
Never respond to trolls. They aren’t looking to debate with you, they’re looking to have you respond. They’re not interested in your response.
Take a deep breath, and realize that you cannot win an argument with a troll, they win the moment you’ve responded.
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“As cyberspace becomes a “layer” on top of the physical world and we spend more...”
– GOOD
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“It’s 140 characters. It’s so few characters. If you need a ghostwriter for that,...”
– Shaq on celebrities who use ghost Twitterers, in the NY Times (via nickdouglas)
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“Between 5 January 1991 and 2 November 1991, a 26-episode anime based on the St....”
– Cooool. Enid Blyton’s St. Clare’s series: Wikipedia
“Sometimes a sock on the floor is just a sock on the floor.”
– Psychology Today
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Real Love (cover of John Lennon) by Regina Spektor...
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