January 2011
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Kindle e-books have overtaken paperback books as... →
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“Always read with a pen in hand. The pen should be used both to mark the text you...”
– Mandy Brown, “Ways of reading” (via austinkleon)
I rarely write on books; it seems like I’m defacing something too valuable. Still, I love this idea and perhaps I will start…
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How Handwriting Boosts the Brain →
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WatchHow to report the news. Wish they taught this at my college.
Annie's cute boy who goes to Greendale isn't
inothernews:
the Russian guy who looks like a short Johnny Depp
the guy who looks a little like Vince Vaughn, but smells a lot like fish
the guy who looks like Anderson Cooper, but with a soul patch and a ponytail
the black Michael Chiklis
the white George Foreman
Fat Neil
Blue Streak
Optimus Prime
Jean-Claude Van Overbite
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“Waking dreams are the ones that are important, the ones that come when I’m...”
– David Lynch (via nighthawking)
Love.
“Sad things can happen when an author chooses the wrong subject: first the author...”
– Wilfrid Sheed. We’ll remember his wit and writing on tomorrow’s Fresh Air. (via nprfreshair)
“Books about suicide make lousy gifts”
– Wilfrid Sheed. (via National Book Critics Circle)
“They hired me for a job. If they didn’t want me, they shouldn’t have hired me… I...”
– Ricky Gervais, defending his performance at the Golden Globes to Piers Morgan. The interview airs tonight. (via entertainmentweekly)
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We'llBeBackShortly.com →
“Writing about Hollywood is like being a reporter at Disneyland. At first, you...”
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Former NEWSWEEK film writer Sean Smith, on his decision to quit journalism and join the Peace Corps. (Ouch.)
Best of luck to Sean, our former L.A. bureau chief, who’s heading to South Africa as an HIV/AIDS outreach volunteer. As he told EW Managing Editor Jess Cagle, “I know that I’m pointed in...
“Anyone from anywhere can be cruel, anyone from anywhere can be witty, but there...”
– As Ricky Gervais discovered this week, British banter - that playfully barbed conversational style used up and down the country - can baffle and perturb foreigners. America is a land of Regency etiquette in comparison. (via theeconomist)
I think the Hollywood elite need to calm down. They can dry...
Build Your Own Timeline on LIFE.com and Win... →
I need to take more photos. This could be fun.
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Philadelphia doctor accused of murdering patient,... →
This article is depressing. I read it at work and realized my mouth was gaping open from shock and disgust.
I fear that anti-abortion groups may use this to fuel their fire, but in my eyes it should be the other way around. Barriers to abortion health care can make women vulnerable to people and situations like this. Ignoring the earlier outcries from impoverished, minority women perpetuates...
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The power outlet of the present is here
go:
Yay. It’s about time…
reblogged via cnnmoneytech:
I don’t know why it took so long for manufacturers to create something like this, but Fastmac has finally found a way to free up your power outlets while still charging any of your devices that connect via USB (tablet, phone, blackberry, flipcam, etc.). Genius. -Matt
Screenshot: CNNMoney
I want.
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Whiteboard Accounting →
austinkleon:
viafrank:
It’s not ground-breaking, but it’s a way to make numbers a bit friendlier for visual folks like us who shriek in terror at the thought of books.
Must-read for freelancers. (And those of us with full-time day jobs can benefit from some visual thinking about money, too.)
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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters (via euphoriaaaa)
“The director was unable to work with Nicolas Cage, the film’s original villain....”
– From Frank Lidz’s story in The New York Times on the making of The Green Hornet (via gq)
That quote is pure gold.
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“Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between...”
– Terry Gross (via anthophobia)
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“If you can’t explain what you’re doing in plain English, you’re probably doing...”
– Alfred E. Kahn (via austinkleon)
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“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say...”
– Fred (Mr.) Rogers (via apsies)
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Using Storify To Cover The Giffords Shooting
npr:
For those of you interested in the tool Storify.com, I tried using it this afternoon for documenting what was going on today regarding the shooting of Rep. Giffords. Please let me know what you think of it. - @acarvin
Great way to catch up on this breaking story from all angles. I first heard about it through social media, so this format seems fitting.
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The Handwritten Letter, an Art All but Lost,... →
A lovely New York Times article about the ability of print media to bring some purpose and dignity back to the incarcerated.
Country Weekly regularly receives songs from a prisoner in Texas who has ambitions of being a country star.
Here is a related post from a blogger I follow about the rewards of writing to prisoners. She has even started a project for those who would like to write...
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20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
I abbreviated it to some of my favorites
condenasttraveler:
youmightfindyourself:
2. Mamihlapinatapei
Yagan (indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego) — “the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start” (Altalang.com)
3. Jayus
Indonesian — “A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh”...
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“CONSIDER THE ARC of the standard debauch. The hero (you) starts off from home on...”
– Wayne Curtis reviews alleged hangover cures, ancient and modern (via theatlantic)
I just love the tone of this piece.
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“Earlier this week, there was an uproar over a publisher’s plans to release an...”
– The Plum Line - Huck Finning the Constitution
This. This. THIS.
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ADAM SERWER WINS THE DAY.
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Absolutely.
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WatchGood Day Today. Song by David Lynch, video by Jethro Massey.
Fan created music videos for David Lynch’s new songs.
Compare this one to the winner; it’s amazing how this song can have such a different mood depending on the chosen visuals.
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Cyberspace when you're dead →
Who has figured out what will happen to all of their digital livelihoods after dying? I need to appoint a digital executor….
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“When Lacey began these computations, her toe crossed ground from which it is...”
– An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman, 2001 (via austinkleon) 