September 2012
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spiritual atheism: buffy, angel, house and doctor... →
“If there’s no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters … then all that matters is what we do. ‘Cause that’s all there is. What we do. Now. Today. I fought for so long, for redemption, for a reward, and finally just to beat the other guy. Because, if there’s no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.” — Angel, “Epiphanies”
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(Paul) Ryan's VP Spin →
lies, damn lies!
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Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and... →
Here’s how Romney would go about “liberating” a company: A private equity firm like Bain typically seeks out floundering businesses with good cash flows. It then puts down a relatively small amount of its own money and runs to a big bank like Goldman Sachs or Citigroup for the rest of the financing. (Most leveraged buyouts are financed with 60 to 90 percent borrowed cash.) The...
August 2012
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“How can managers create a work environment that generates happier (and therefore...”
– Well, when you put it like that. …
It is not like I am TRYING to put a stone in anyone’s path to happiness, you know, Times Magazine.
Secrets from the World’s Happiest Workplace | Business | TIME.com
(via icelandwantstobeyourfriend)
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randsplaining. verb. the act of a rich person... →
motherjones:
That’s the word we coined for this:
Billionaire heiress tells non-rich people they should spend “more time working” to get rich
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Drake equation: How many alien civilizations... →
“In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation to estimate how many detectable civilizations might exist in our galaxy. Each variable, visualized below, is a crucial factor for developing such a civilization.”
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missing woman searches for self →
“A search and rescue operation was underway near Iceland’s Eldgjá canyon last Saturday when a woman did not return to her tour bus. Turns out, the woman had in fact returned to the tour bus and had actually helped try to find, um, herself. According to Iceland Review Online, “Before reentering the bus after the stop at Eldgjá, the woman had changed her clothes and freshened up,...
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“All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for...”
– Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) Via Biblioklept (via criminalwisdom)
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“The obstacle is the path”
– Zen Proverb
(via thesweetestspots)
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How Americans in the Great Lakes Region Are...
mentalflossr:
“In 1972, three linguists christened the phenomenon the Northern Cities Vowel Shift or, more simply, the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). What they observed may be the most important change in English pronunciation in centuries.”
More: How Americans in the Great Lakes Region Are Revolutionizing English
[via Slate]
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best tumblr of the election year?
littlefacemitt:
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“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine...”
– Steve Maraboli, “Life, the Truth, and Being Free”
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shame! shame! shame! →
“UPDATE 9:55 am: All three women have been sentenced to two years in prison, starting from the date of arrest in March. Shouts of “shame! shame!” could be heard in the courtroom.
The three long-detained members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” following a five-month case in Moscow that had become...
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pomegranate
I go for night walks. I’ve done this since puberty. this is a thoroughly entrenched sort of behavior. like how I twirl my hair. I’ll die but be sure, the night before I walked. so I go for night walks.
now though, through the hills of echo park. lush with green and bursts of flowers and fruit. the teeny, precious lights of downtown shining down the hill. a view. not comparable to any...
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“If you’re not with us, you’re a fist
and if you’re a fist, you can’t reach ...”
– Jenny Browne, from “The Cry Bone’s Connected to the Why Bone” (with thanks to vlorin)
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sometimes they fight back →
“BHOPAL: A bull bided its time and gored an old man to death when an opportunity came a day after the latter had thrown hot water on it. The bull followed the man when he was being taken to a hospital and later reached the crematorium during his funeral in little-known Deori Township in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh.
The bull apparently kept a watch on the frail Bhoop Narayan Prajapati...
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mental_floss on tumblr: 19 Old-Timey Slang Terms... →
mentalflossr:
I recently picked up a copy of the Dictionary of American Slang (1967), and I can’t put it down. Here are some of the words and phrases I’ll be awkwardly shoehorning into conversation.
1. In the ketchup: Operating at a deficit * 2. John Hollowlegs: A hungry man [hobo use] * 3….
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“We once had a chimp who could sort photographs of apes and human beings into two...”
– Dr. Geoffrey H. Bourne, Yerkes Primate Research Center. Bartlett’s Unfamiliar Quotations by Leonard Levinson, 1971. (via ingridrichter)
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“On Tuesday, Gawker’s Cord Jefferson, attempting to illustrate the vast disparity...”
– Real talk: Stop saying Chicago is more dangerous than Afghanistan. It’s not. (via motherjones) 