January 2011
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“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all...”
– John Steinbeck (via bunnymitford) (via earlyfrost) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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Israel allows Egypt troops in Sinai for first time... →
Strange happenings afoot.
kohenari:
Israeli officials say they have agreed to allow Egypt to move several hundred troops into the Sinai Peninsula for the first time since the countries signed a peace treaty three decades ago.
Under the 1979 peace treaty, Israel returned the captured Sinai to Egypt. In return, Egypt agreed to leave the area demilitarized.
With street protests threatening...
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lyingmanipulativebastard:
C.R.E.A.M. - Wu Tang...
'This is the Arab world's Berlin moment' →
“Reuters reports that protesters have set fire to the Tax Authority office tower near Cairo’s interior ministry”
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Interview: Marco Arment →
Great interview with Marco Arment (ex-Tumblr creator) about his Instapaper tool. One feature I never knew about — it can save content that is behind a paywall, through some complex techie jujitsu. Should keep that quiet really, don’t want Rupert Murdoch finding out.
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Artist takes a different drug every day,and draws... →
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discourse:
I always think I am pushing until i see that smile of self satisfied encouragement, then I wonder if I am, instead, being drawn along…
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where the witches dance: The Black Swan →
wherethewitchesdance:
I way really waiting for that one to come out in the UK. And Aronofskys new film The Black Swan, is in my eyes, a masterpiece.
Gorgeous costumes and characterization, brilliant performance in both acting and dancing by Natalie Portman and as always wonderful music by Clint Mansell.
Is…
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Jimdo Indie Rock Music: Sonic Youth Preview New... →
jimdoindierockmusic:
Indie originators Sonic Youth have offered the world a nice little gift on this freezing Friday: A free mixtape streaming on their website. As the band points out, the new mixtape— which, anachronistically enough, appears in a graphic that looks like an actual cassette tape— includes tracks…
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Falling Into the Event Horizon of a Black Hole: a... →
I don’t understand this stuff. But it sounds cool.
fuckyeahspace:
A reddit user by the name RobotRollCall posted this great story today in the comments of a discussion about event horizons. It tells a second-person narrative of what happens as someone falls into a black hole. Read up!
Imagine, just for a moment, that you are aboard a spaceship equipped…
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“Middle classes are servile to those above and tyrannical to those beneath them.”
– Karl Marx on the English middle class. (via socialisimo)
Great example of the kind of bollocks statement that really gets on my tits. First it is blatantly not true, not now and not then. Second it attempts to define an ‘other’, a large homogeneous, non-specific group to blame and...
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain (The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It)
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Music Alliance Pact – January 2011 →
This is great. You can play indie eurovision, except I’ve not found anything deserving of “nil point”, not even England. The Indian entry is a bit ropey mind, but they get a bonus just for being called “Adam And The Fish Eyed Poets”.
[I just linked to this but it deserved it’s own post. ]
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
“She would sing until you cried and then she would sing until you danced for joy. She helped to keep the church alive and the saints rejoicing.”
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