November 2009
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Lula warning over no deal at Copenhagen →
Not heard much about this Lula guy before, but I like his attitude.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
The Holloways (21)
The Wombats (7)
Milburn (6)
The Kooks (5)
Little Man Tate (4)
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I don’t live in poverty, I got a little bit of money and I’ve got a...
– Generator - The Holloways
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If you want to know what Utopia is like, just look around - this is it
– Prof. Steve Jones
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Arctic Monkeys (8)
The Wombats (6)
The Fratellis (4)
The Holloways (4)
Lily Allen (3)
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You’ll either make the choice yourself or the universe will make it for you. So...
– via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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Christmas is the season of awful adverts →
Charlie Brooker is not amused
A lesson on how to debate in Internet forums
“This Monboit bloke is sounding more bonkers by the minute. “
To be fair, he quotes other sources.
So it’s like accusing him of being bonkers for believing what that dude Darwin wrote. Or that knob Newton. Or that ratfink Einstein.
You - and other randoms on the internets - need to find credible sources that prove who Monbiot quotes is wrong, is all.
As an example, if...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Florence and The Machine (13)
Eric Hutchinson (10)
Matt Wertz (3)
Mat Kearney (2)
Marc Broussard (2)
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… the ‘rigorously scientific’ method of predicting the future...
– Alan Watts
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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but [rather] not to be deceived by...
– Allan Watts
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PMQs at Prime Time
From the BBC:
“The skies are darkening at Westminster after an unusually late running of PMQs. The authorities have moved it back three hours, and the Daily Politics computer is suffering problems from a huge surge in emails. Might a permanently later time be more popular with the viewing public? Could Parliament go even further, one wonders, maybe even scheduling PMQs for peak-time...
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
– Jonathan Swift (via reluctantbuddha)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Zach Gill (1)
Donavon Frankenreiter (1)
Joshua Radin (1)
The John Butler Trio (1)
John Mayer (1)
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A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families →
nickdouglas:
Four kids name several Lego pieces. Scroll down the the chart.
Lego has got far more advanced than when I were a nipper. Far fewer names needed back then…
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? … Love is...
– Yann Martel - Life of Pi
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If we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs now,...
– Thomas Sowell : The “Costs” of Medical Care: Part III - Townhall.com
[via carpe diem h/t devin]
(via hilker)
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The bike tree: The 21st-century bike rack →
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If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your...
– Maya Angelou (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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Johnson saves woman from 'oiks' →
Whatever his politics may be, Boris is awesome
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
Florence and The Machine (13)
Paolo Nutini (12)
Ian Brown (10)
Florence + The Machine (6)
Deadmau5 (6)
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Sharif University Student to Khamenei: Why Can’t... →
southpol:
This is great.
“Rumors say that the student has been arrested.”
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Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your...
– Ernest Hemingway (via jesuisperdu)
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...
– E.B. White (via quote-book)
October 2009
16 posts
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
– Alexandre Dumas
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And then I realise, wait a minute, I’m leaking methane. I’m my own...
We are pretty much the same as we were twenty thousand years ago. We have in the...
– Aldous Huxley
via Tinkering till the end of time
(via zachklein)
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It’s a journey – and I’m just happy with the stretch of road...
– JW