February 2009
15 posts
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Wireless Carterfone The Atlantic Online | March 2009 | How the Crash Will Reshape America | Richard Florida Welcome to biblediagrams.com The Technium: The Unabomber Was Right How to Cook Everything Vegetarian … - Google Book Search (breakfast burrito) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The free arts and the servile arts Anatomy of a crash - www.drive.com.au
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Feb 23rd
On getting stuff
magicmolly: A small box on the first page of the last Whole Earth Catalog includes this vital information: The Catalog will bankrupt you if you can’t distinguish between what you need and what you wish you needed. Start extravagant, and you’ll never finish. Get the cheap tool first, and see if it feeds your life. If it does, then get a better one. Once you use it all the time, get the best....
Feb 22nd
Sense of Direction
This time two months ago, I’d gotten back from my trip to Europe. I’d done a bit of work for the PCF, and was enjoying settling back down to a stable existence. I had an idea of what I’d be doing for the next 6 months, and felt that I could see vaguely what would happen in the future. Now all of that’s changed. I’m not sad: I still love working for the PCF and...
Feb 20th
Petzal: The Rules of Gunfighting | Field & Stream →
Feb 14th
Mindfuck Movies by Matthew Baldwin - The Morning... →
Of these, I’ve seen 2001, Dark City, Memento, Donnie Darko, and Primer. Now I’ve got some more videos to put on my Netflix Queue.
Feb 13th
Chili
As an apartment-warming gift, my mom got me a crockpot. Yesterday, also using a recipe from her, I made some chili. I think I used the wrong kind of beans, and I forgot the veggie crumbles for about half the cooking time, but it seems to have turned out okay. I’m not sure if it even tastes like real chili, but I enjoyed having it. As my friend Ellie said, “you put shit in and food...
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“I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of...”
– John Cole (Balloon Juice via Ezra Klein)
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“Adults can sex each other up, but can also put so much meaning and pour so much...”
– Utahraptor (via dinosaur comics)
Feb 2nd
Principles of the American Cargo Cult →
“Certainty is strength, doubt is weakness” we have always been at war with Eastasia
Feb 1st