January 2012
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These (GOP) debates… they have jumped the shark. Because last night — I swear to...
– BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)
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I started to carry chalk around with me. I ride my bike a lot, so, I’d ride my...
– Jake Reilly, a 24-year-old college student who gave up his cellphone, email and social media for 90 days. He says that, among other things, the experiment taught him that some people he thought were close friends really weren’t that close after all, and he thinks it helped him get back together with...
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for sharing thoughts, no matter how banal (as every...
– Charlie Brooker on online sharing (via guardian)
Indeed. Never need quite understand the reasons why people felt it necessary to bare their entire lives on Facebook (more so because I don’t have an account myself). The cynical side of me always presumes that it is a matter of self...
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Pop Culture and the Third World: Rewriting The... →
popthirdworld:
Remember the scene in The Devil Wears Prada where Andy (Anne Hathaway) sniggers as Miranda (Meryl Streep) and her colleagues argue over which of two very similar belts match an outfit and Andy gets served? It always pisses me off. It goes like this:
Miranda Priestly: Something funny?
BAM.
Playing around with the themes. Still kinda fug, but it’ll do for the moment.
Resuming normal transmission now.
I wonder, what will happen now…
– Mushroom (2012)
Playing around with the HTML is fun! I wonder if this will actually work this...
– Mushroom (2012)
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NY TIMES: "Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made... →
Leave it to former Nike CEO Phil Knight, whose... →
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“I think people making five million dollars to 10 million dollars definitely don’t think they are making enough money,” she told me. “Wouldn’t it be nice to fly private? There are so many things you can aspire to, even making five million dollars a year. For the lower rung of this crowd, these people set up lives for themselves they can’t afford. They are...
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“Yes, they would finance anything to do with poverty alleviation, but inequality was an altogether different matter. Why? Because ‘my’ concern with the poverty of some people actually projects me in a very nice, warm glow: I am ready to use my money to help them… But inequality is different. Every mention of it raises in fact the issue of the appropriateness or ...
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[Healthcare] is about freedom.
– Santorum
AKA the freedom to get sick and die unless it’s my family or me getting sick and dying. (via mohandasgandhi)
Even though I’m not a US citizen, this depresses me so very much.
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It’s kinda strange researching about gap years/working holidays when most of the material online is aimed at people a decade younger than you are.
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