December 2009
46 posts
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Dec 29th
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“« Il arrive que des pourparlers durent si longtemps qu’on ne sait plus...”
– Gilles Deleuze quoted in 365 jours ouvrables: Glouare au basterd !
Dec 29th
“I wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can only...”
– Schneier on Security (via pegobry)
Dec 28th
“It is a mark of fundamental human decency to feel ashamed of living in the...”
– Elias Canetti quoted by Simon Leys in The Monthly
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Dec 27th
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“At the moment of giving up the ghost on a hospital bed, the colourful Irish...”
– Tell Them I Said Something | The Monthly (via Instapaper)
Dec 27th
“It is not the words themselves, but the circumstance and manner in which they...”
– Tell Them I Said Something | The Monthly (via Instapaper)
Dec 24th
Dec 24th
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Urban Dictionary: santaclausification →
The portrayal of a confrontational, angry, violent, radical, or otherwise potent person as if he were harmless and benevolent
Dec 24th
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author →
Jonathan Safran Foer 30somethings who were cool when they were 20something. Haruki Murakami People who like good music. Ralph Waldo Emerson People who can start a fire. George Orwell Conspiracy theorists (too easy). Aldous Huxley People who are bigger conspiracy theorists than Orwell fans. J.D. Salinger Kids who don’t fit in (duh). Thomas Pynchon People who used to be fans of J.D....
Dec 23rd
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““I’m starting to think that all the world’s problems could be solved with either...”
– Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies in the Kitchen: Food + Cooking : gourmet.com (via Instapaper)
Dec 20th
“nontroversy n. A false or non-existent controversy.”
– Word Spy - nontroversy
Dec 20th
“Prince de Ligne : « Je ne me révolte jamais en hiver. »”
– via Revue des deux mondes
Dec 20th
Totem » Blog Archive » J’aimerais que Google rende... →
Dec 19th
Dec 19th
“Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes.”
– Thoreau (via early-onset-of-night) (via fuckyeahthoreau)
Dec 18th
“Americans have succumbed to rampant consumerism. Go back to a home built before...”
– Predictably Irrational (via marco)
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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“I think it was Faulkner who once said that when you strike a match in a dark...”
– Javier Marías, interviewed here. - via thebronzemedal (via walkwhilereading)
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
“Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.”
– Paul Samuelson
Dec 16th
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via mariecriedwolf) (via suzywire) (via notso)
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
December is the darkest month of the year. So why... →
Because water retains heat. Between 70 percent and 75 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in oceans, rivers, and lakes. (There’s even more water vaporized in the air or stored in the ground.) During seasons of longer days and more sunlight, these geographical features are able to store up and retain heat over long periods of time, before emitting it as the days get shorter. A...
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“Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time...”
– Francis C. Farley (via atestu)
Dec 11th
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“Up until sometime in the 1800s, though, lobster was literally low-class food,...”
– Consider the Lobster (D.F. Wallace)
Dec 10th
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Why we use cookbooks →
Mark Peel, in his Campanile cookbook, comes near to giving the game away: “We chefs all lie about our mashed potatoes,” he admits. “We don’t tell you we’ve used 1½ pounds of cream and butter with 1¾ pounds of potatoes. You don’t need to know.” (Joël Robuchon, the king of his generation of French cooks, first became famous for a purée that had an even higher proportion of butter beaten into...
Dec 8th
“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the...”
– Freya Stark - French adventurer and explorer 1893-1993 Via turneminsideout (via travelhighlights) (via pegobry)
Dec 7th
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Dec 2nd
“#5 “There’s no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure”....”
– Meilcour.fr » Les dix commandements de Jay Rosen
Dec 2nd
sarahbelfort: The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child…[The creative author] wishes to create a comic story before he has thought of a single comic incident. He desires to write a sad story before he has thought...
Dec 2nd
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“- Le débat sur l’“identité nationale”, ça t’évoque quoi ? - Jamais je ne...”
– “L’identité nationale c’est un problème de riche”, Kool Shen : LesInrocks.com
Dec 1st