February 2011
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“Mellow Yellow,” Donovan.
Small changes. Happy results.
Before Christmas I made a few changes.
I now follow a maximum of 250 people at any one time on Twitter - and turned off retweets from anyone apart from my closest friends.
Separated my Personal and Work Google readers. I cut my Personal one to under 400 subscriptions. Most dramatically, I classify reading my pruned Work one as work (ie, though I would never time record, I count it mentally...
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Book Club for Life. "I'm 30. Each year until I'm... →
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The Loneliest Whale in the World. →
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“Monday, Monday,” The Mamas and the...
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“During the days and weeks that followed I brooded about what had gone wrong with...”
– Utterly gripped reading ‘An Evening with J. D. Salinger,’ Paris Review.
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“People have one great blessing - obscurity - and not really too many people are...”
– Bob Dylan’s Playboy interview, 1966.
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Monkeys trained to play computer games have helped... →
US-based scientists found that macaques will “pass” rather than risk choosing the wrong answer in a brainteaser task.
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We are agitated when the Internet doesn’t work but... →
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“In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show...”
– By ubergrid via Tomorrow Museum.
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“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“We are all tapping on the walls late at night waiting for answers from distant...”
– Cary Tennis answers a woman who asks Why do I blog?
Radiolab, 'Space.' →
“We begin with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, with a story about the Voyager expedition, true love, and a golden record that travels through space.”
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“Mavrik… is about the size of a Shetland sheepdog, with chestnut orange fur...”
– Only a handful of wild animal species have been successfully bred to get along with humans. The reason, scientists say, is found in their genes. National Geographic Magazine
"Men explain things to me, still. And no man has... →
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Why books do not prepare us for real love. →
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Tissue No 2, Philip Glass.
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Being Female | The Awl →
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Air and Simple Gifts played while Barack Obama was...
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“What should everyone know about paleontology?” by... →
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