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Watchnewyorker:
Cory Arcangel, who is profiled in this week’s issue, gives a tour of his Brooklyn studio and his artwork as he prepares for his show at the Whitney.
I ♥ Cory Arcangel and all his friends. It’s nice to see him become rich and famous.
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I just watered some new plants in our backyard. A hummingbird followed the water from my hose, hovering around the edges of the spray. Then he would take little breaks, perching on the thin boughs of a small pine tree, stretching his wings and washing his face.
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Guide to iTunes U
crookedindifference:
From the Do It Yourself Scholar:
At last count there were more than 150 colleges and universities featured on iTunes U, the section of Apple’s iTunes music store devoted to higher education. There’s great free downloadable content here — lots of lectures and entire courses, but sorting through all this material can be daunting.
Some of the highlights:
Massachusetts...
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Roman Numeral Ten Thousand
codepoint:
Sometimes 500, usually D, was written as I followed by Ɔ, while 1,000, usually M, was written as CIƆ. Sometimes CIƆ was reduced to a lemniscate symbol (ↀ) for denoting 1,000. Similarly, 5,000 (IƆƆ) was reduced to ↁ; and 10,000 (CCIƆƆ) was reduced to ↂ.- Wikipedia
I had no idea.
FCC’s Baker Defends Decision to Be Comcast... →
Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker defended her decision to leave the agency for a lobbying job at Comcast Corp. Friday, saying she has complied with ethics laws.
Related:
…a normal person, functioning well on the upper levels of a prosperous, industrialized society, can hardly hear [her] conscience at all.
— Vonnegut
kateoplis:
crookedindifference replied to your post: jedsundwall replied to your photo: V is for…
what is your wwf user name?
katetropa. bring your A game.
She’s not kidding about the A game. Oof.
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Watchshootinggallery:
Tim Hetherington talking about subjectivity in photojournalism (2011)
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Restrepo broke my heart and made me more of a pacifist than I was before.
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Tibetan Mark Gug Rtags Gyas
globalspin:
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With ༺, a bracket. - Unicode.org
Wait, really? I wonder what gets bracketed by these. It looks like the kind of thing that you’d read with fanfare, like:
༺This character is too awesome for words!༻
Dun-da-dunnnnn!
༺CHRIS RADCLIFF༻
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“I forbid you from working for al-Qaida.”
– Osama bin Laden, to his kids, via his will.
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“One of the many things that fascinated Freud about jokes was that they passed...”
– Tim Carmody on Kottke: Giving our feelings a name
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you...”
– Ken Kesey
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When I lived in Venezuela, someone told me the story of a farmer who was bitten by a snake while working in the field. Enraged, he ran after the snake instead of tending to his wound, hacking at the tall grass with his machete until he found it and killed it. By that time, however, the snake’s venom had spread throughout the farmer’s body, killing him in turn.
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We got our snake. I...
10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths &...
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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers…. Each one owes infinitely...”
– François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, French archbishop and author (1651 - 1715) in Dialogue des Morts, “Socrate et Alcibiade” (via mohandasgandhi) 