July 2010
15 posts
Jul 27th
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“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they...”
– Henry David Thoreau
Jul 27th
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Jul 25th
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“Perhaps I look to books to protect me from life’s ultimate highs and lows; maybe...”
– Andi Diehn
Jul 25th
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"We Are What We Choose" — Jeff Bezos' Commencement... →
“What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.”
Jul 24th
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy
Jul 23rd
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Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn
Jul 21st
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Jul 20th
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Jul 20th
237 notes
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Jul 9th
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“Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get...”
– Jason Mraz
Jul 6th
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Jul 6th
June 2010
6 posts
Jun 13th
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Jun 13th
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Jun 9th
Jun 9th
Are you an Asker or a Guesser? →
Jun 5th
Jun 4th
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May 2010
9 posts
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
– William Wordsworth
May 30th
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May 28th
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May 27th
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“You define yourself by the people you love and that’s enough.”
– Jeff Tweedy
May 18th
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“It is all worth it. Every day, even a sad day blurred by headaches and filled...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
May 14th
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May 14th
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Strange Signs from Abroad →
Hilariously (mis)translated signage from around the world!
May 14th
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Letters to Fictional Characters →
Harper Perennial invites you to participate in its Letters With Character campaign, and to write a letter to a fictional character. The letters can be funny, sad, demanding, fanciful, declarative, or trivial. They can be about a novel, a short story, or a children’s book, works both literary or popular. There is only one requirement: They must be written by a real person and must also address an...
May 14th
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May 12th
April 2010
4 posts
Apr 30th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 9th
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March 2010
15 posts
Mar 28th
159 notes
1 tag
Mar 21st
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Mar 20th
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Mar 20th
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Books in the age of the iPad →
A well-written and nicely laid out article by Craid Mod.
Mar 17th
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“What are often considered the weaknesses of the old-fashioned book are in some...”
– William Powers
Mar 17th
Mar 12th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 10th
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Mar 9th
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Mar 9th
Obama requests Tufte transparency →
Obama appoints Edward Tufte as part of a panel to track stimulus transparency. Tufte on the appointment: I will be serving on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. This Panel advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds … I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in...
Mar 9th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 7th
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Mar 5th
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February 2010
5 posts
“For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons — which made us...”
– Brian Williams, A thank-you note to Canada (via)
Feb 27th