September 2009
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“In the 1920s, if people had a party, they had an extraordinary theme. You know,...”
– Stephen Fry (via myownprivate)
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The Unfollow Manifesto
I recently did some unfollowing on web services I use that have a follow function and it got me to thinking about the reasons why I choose to do such a thing.
On either Twitter or Tumblr, I do not mind following people who post A LOT. I really don’t. I don’t mind if you fill up my dash or my index page… AS LONG AS IT’S INTERESTING.
Not even funny. Just interesting. Here are some things that...
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway in Esquire, December 1934 (via jessicalindsey: mikhailovna: sabine:asprettyasasong)
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“President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call...”
– The West Wing (via lrusso) love Sorkin’s writing (via peterwknox)
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“Into a pint glass, doubles of the following are poured: gin, whisky, rum, port...”
– Anthony Burgess’ Hangman’s Blood cocktail, via Clem
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Lonely Japanese find solace in 'rent a friend'... →
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Watchtumbletogether:
I haven’t updated my Wordpress blog Come Together as often as I’d like, not because I don’t feel like I have things to write about but because I’m struggling to find the time to write about them in ways that others might find either entertaining, instructive or insightful.
So I’m going to be using tumble together like a little sketchpad, a space to think out loud about community...
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“Twenty years ago, I’d have been booked in at the Ritz with five grams of cocaine...”
– Lily Allen on the recession (via semisetadrift)
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“Show us too many sick kids, unfair imprisonments or burned bodies and you...”
– Seth Godin on the enormity of social problems paralysing people rather than spurring them on to act.
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“… the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call...”
– Andrea Lunsford, professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing. “I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. Via Wired
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The Queensland Opposition Leader carried a teddy... →
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“The savvier consultants and their clients understand that the basis of the...”
– “Masters of illusion: The great management consultancy swindle,” The Independent
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Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences →
via @lukeayresryan
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“Since Kanye West is a ‘cool black person’, Taylor Swift probably thought he was...”
– Hipster Runoff on Kanye West