August 2011
61 posts
“Life is like sipping tea. With the first sip, joy; with the second, peace; with the third, inner love and satisfaction…and with the fourth, a Danish.”
—anon
“Don’t do drugs because if you do drugs you’ll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.”
—John Hardwick
“If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
—Winnie the Pooh
“I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.”
—Nicole Krauss
Know Where Your Thankfulness Lies →
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We all have moments when we’re grateful and moments when we’re not. Peggy McColl, author and inspiration coach, is the one of the few people that I’ve come across who doesn’t just advocate having…
This Could Be The Greatest Wedding Photoshoot Of All Time →
badassdigest.com
Julian Sunmi Park and Benjamin Jinsuk Lee got married and opted to take some of the coolest, dorkiest wedding photos possible. I like this because it’s a fun way to assert your nerdiness at your wedding without dressing up like a Klingon. It’s a perfect compromise!
13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence →
inhabitat.com
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As part of an experiment for my forthcoming book Brandwashed, I lined up 20 babies between the ages of 14 and 20 months. I then handed each one a BlackBerry. No sooner had their soft chubby fists reached out to take the phone from me than they touched the screen expecting it to light up. When nothing happened, a few stuck it in their mouths whilst others moved on to something more interesting.
These babies, all under two years old, have already been converted to the Apple brand.
” —What Apple Babies Reveal About Our Tech Routines — Fast Company
“There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing - for the same reason that we stand, hour after hour, gazing at the distant swell of the open ocean. There is something like an ancient wisdom, encoded and tucked away in our DNA, that knows its point of origin as surely as a salmon knows its creek. Intellectually, we may not want to return there, but the genes know, and long for their origins - their home in the salty depths. But if the seas are our immediate source, the penultimate source is certainly the heavens … The spectacular truth is - and this is something that your DNA has known all along - the very atoms of your body - the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on - were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you feel some ineffable tugging at your innards. We are star stuff. Keep looking up.”
—Jerry Waxman
“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement-always keep reaching - if you don’t try you can not know!”
—CatTechie
“I had to stop using Sunday Times front pages with pictures of Malema on the floor of my chicken coop. The hens have stopped laying.”
—Unknown
Why yo momma won’t use Google (and why that thrills me to no end) →
scobleizer.com
Google+. A social network for people who have to do more than pass their driver’s license to qualify :-)
Major Turnoffs →
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