July 2010
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When Classical Music Sends Chills Down Your Spine →
The sixth in a series of posts by The Atlantic about appreciating classical music. Catch up on the first five parts of the series here, here, here, here, and here.
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“… we want our identities—our cultural investments—recognized; we want to...”
– Information Processing and Pleasure, PopMatters
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“I generally begin working on a story in total ignorance, which I think is the...”
– Mark Bowden on discovering narrative and the value of beginner’s mind, Nieman Storyboard
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Reading as a Luxury Good →
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“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
– Andy Warhol (via fluffynotes)
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“The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest,...”
– Clay Shirky The Guardian via Russell Davies.
93% of the world’s population is not on Facebook. →
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“The Internet is great. I like the Internet. I like feminism, and I’m glad the...”
– Sady Doyle, part of her response to Young Feminists to Old Feminists: If You Can’t Find Us, It’s Because We’re Online.
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The Top Idea in Your Mind →
…it’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.
“1. Are there two or more women in it that have names? 2. Do they talk to each...”
– The Bechdel Test for women in movies, via Boing Boing.
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“For marketers, memes sound-check the microphone and PA system of the internet in...”
– Memes and marketing PopMatters
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Slow and... →
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“…this is why we should all follow strangers on Twitter. We naturally lead...”
– Twitter Strangers The Frontal Cortex
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“One of the best things about Twitter is that, once you’ve populated it...”
– From the interesting, though-creepily-titled, Why I Stalk a Sexy Black Woman on Twitter (And Why You Should, Too)
“I had a bag of mushrooms in my refrigerator. My cat used to sneak into the...”
– Nicolas Cage Does Shrooms With Cat
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Le Tigre - Get off the Internet
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How well do you know your friends’ political... →
Study: When friends disagree on a political issue, they are unaware of that disagreement about 60% of the time. Even close friends who discuss politics are typically unaware of their differences in opinions.
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“Neuroticism correlated with use of ‘irony’ and negatively correlated...”
– BPS Research Digest: The links between bloggers’ personalities and their use of words
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How behavioral economics is being misused by... →
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WHAT'S WITH STEAMPUNK? | More Intelligent Life →
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by... →
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From "Love" by Clarice Lispector
“Deep down, Anna had always found it necessary to feel the firm roots of things. And this is what a home had surprisingly provided. Through tortuous paths, she had achieved a woman’s destiny, with the surprise of conforming to it almost as if she had invented that destiny herself. The man whom she had married was a real man, the children she mothered were real children. Her previous youth now...
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The Beach Boys, “Don’t Talk (Put Your...