January 2010
29 posts
“You can probably sort out for yourself many of the ways in which constantly...”
– (via a grammar, and britticisms, who adds: “This is something that’s always bothered me, but I’ve never been able to articulate it in a way that at all makes sense or doesn’t sound “reactionary.”)
See: White Whine | Stuff White People Like
(via somethingchanged)
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The sheer scale of human suffering can "inhibit...
somethingchanged:
Paul Slovic [a psychologist at the University of Oregon] found that when people were shown a picture of a single starving child named Rokia in Mali, they acted with impressive generosity. After looking at Rokia’s emaciated body and haunting brown eyes, they donated, on average, two dollars and fifty cents to Save the Children. However, when a second group of people were...
rape-axe: the anti-rape condom
scurvette:
“an anti-rape female condom invented by sonette ehlers, a south african woman working as a blood technician with the south african blood transfusion service, during which time she met and treated many rape victims. the device, known as ‘the rape-axe’, is a latex sheath embedded with shafts of sharp, inward-facing microscopic barbs that would be worn by a woman in her vagina like a...
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“…knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5.”
– Eric Schmidt (via azspot)
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“The world that produced John Kerry and George Bush is indeed giving us our next...”
– The Disadvantages of an Elite Education: an article by William Deresiewicz about how universities should exist to make minds, not careers | The American Scholar (via bowfolk) (via honeyhands)
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Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale by Dan...
whitepeacocks:
Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days. Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals. Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices. Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Look each way for the dim glow of light. Work on your reports. Review each of your life’s ten...