January 2012
if there was a tree that had always been around and you found out that it was going to be cut down, would you climb it once for the first time before it was going to be cut down? or would you just never think about it again so that you wouldn’t miss it when it was gone?
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liminality:
Social Experiment: Will You Stop in the Name of Beauty?
That link reminds me of this passage from The Phantom Tollbooth:
“But, as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that. Then one day someone discovered that if you walked as fast as possible and looked at...
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“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...”
– Norton Juster (Phantom Tollbooth)
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jaemsjaems:
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“Yes I’m one of the slowest talkers you’ll ever meet but my head, when I have it...”
– Dave Eggers (via intotheobscurity)
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The first woman to circumnavigate the globe was a... →
And she was a bamf, apparently.
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“Sorry, non-Fringe fans. Not because you don’t get this comic, but because you...”
– Hikinks Ensue. The state of television today doesn’t deserve such high quality shows like Fringe. Like the quote above says, I admire that Fringe is not compromising who it is in favor of reaching a wider audience. I’d rather it leave on it’s own terms then on those of others (of course, I’d...
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i got out of lab early because they forgot to install the program we were supposed to learn how to use on the lab computers.
i am watching higurashi and i am waiting for my delivery indian food to arrive.
please get here i am so hungry oh mannnn
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xatuxatu:
clioooooo:
every episode of alcatraz so far has had a shot of the number 23.
in this episode it’s on the boat the guy’s in with the kid.
in the previous episode it was on a key someone was hanging up on the wall at a motel.
Woah you’re totally on to something. I’m going to credit you when they have a 23 related plot twist that defies any logic.
and they will, because jj abrams.
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“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious...”
– Albert Einstein (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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bethefoodoflove:
Universities have to pay thousands of dollars every year to read their own research online. Fuck JSTOR
sinidentidades:
Research compilation software like that is a huge business in academia. I attacked it several times in my publishing classes, which basically led everyone to believing I want to plagiarize everyone’s work and destroy America.
But really, what does it say...
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rossmcbitchface:
valkyrien:
fattiesinlove:
With ACTA threatening us on all fronts, our future will become a sordid blend of the two, with all channels of communication and information sharing controlled by the police state, and the mindless masses lulled into the false sense that nothing really so awful as full-scale censorship is going on because their soaps are still running.
All of...
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every episode of alcatraz so far has had a shot of the number 23.
in this episode it’s on the boat the guy’s in with the kid.
in the previous episode it was on a key someone was hanging up on the wall at a motel.
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Taste the Awesome, All Ye Who Enter Here: Social... →
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babblinganddoodles:
everydayimnerdfighting:
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thisisnteducational:
55(fear) + 38(avoidance) = 93 You have severe social phobia
Oh. Okay.
44(fear) +...
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cognitive dissonance.
this semester is overwhelming already.
i just need to not worry about anything.
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skyiswomb-shesthemoon:
“So maybe she was up in the room trying to discover what her new self was, for when you get in love you are made all over again. The person who loves you has picked you out of the great mass of uncreated clay which is humanity to make something out of, and the poor lumpish clay which is you wants to find out what it has been made into. But at the same time, you, in the act...
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“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
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IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!
End ACTA and Protect our right to privacy on the Internet
kosmonaunt:
Americans, this is a link to the White House petition to End ACTA and get the Obama Administration to withdraw its support! This petition needs 23,106 signatures by February 20, 2012! Please, Please take a minute to sign this petition!! So far it only has 1,904 signatures. :C
Please pass this along!!
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