2008

“He is lucky who, in the full tide of life, has experienced a measure of the active...

“No one’s saying people should have the right to know...”
— Marina Hyde: These stubbornly...

“I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and therefore there must be a...

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a...

“I like to call it a coffee machine. It will take yesterday’s coffee and turn it into...

“Life gives us all such moments — I call them “Blue Moments”...”
— The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget...

“We’re talking about 6000 people who belong to this theoretical superclass. 5900 of...

“A 2005 study by Gregory Paul looking at 18 democracies found...”
— The latest research on the...

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human...”
— In This Week’s Magazine: True...

“Am I making the most of my life?” Nash and Stevenson...”
— Oliver Burkeman on happiness |...

“In fact, so close is the relationship between...”
— Paul Carr: Secrets of Silicon...

OH: “neck-beard open-source hippies”

“He warns against trusting anybody who wears a tie – “You...”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the...

Reino d’almofada · Gato 2.0

“They learn from and interact directly with their users (and...”
— What Would Google Do? -...

“This was the week witnessed the Revenge Of The Stocks App....”
—  The Macalope Weekly: Enter...

“Religion, uncontaminated by power, can be the source of a...”
—  Philip Pullman on...

“GS: Tell him I’ll know that we’re getting someplace when I...”
— In Conversation: Gloria...

the conjunction of “national coffee day” and national economic panic was not a good one...

“When asked about Republican contention that Pelosi’s...”
— Barney Frank Slaps Back,...

“For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford—that the...”
— Democracy Now! | Sen. Bernie...

“The headlines proclaim that the taxpayer now owns the...”
— News Analysis - A Bailout...

“Mr. Schumer said he and other lawmakers were listening to...”
— Fed Chief Calls Rescue Delay a...

“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job...”
— Weekend Read: “We become less...

From %u201CGood Old Neon,%u201D in %u201COblivion%u201D: %u201CDr. G would later say that the whole...

“In the G.O.P., Bush love is now the second most popular love...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Palin and...

“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in...

“It seems incredible, but as the Democrats gather in Denver...”
— The Unlikeliest Political...

“Many people do use the notion of acceptance as passivity,...”
— Oliver Burkeman: This column...

ambisinister (am-bi-SIN-uh-stuhr) adjective Clumsy with both hands. (Literally, with two left...

“Turtle pellets must be broken into two pieces or the two...”
—  A Two-Headed Turtle Is...

“I don’t like work… But I like what is in work — the chance to find...

Stream of Life by Rabindranath Tagore The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and...

“There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; it cannot be...

Bye For Now Your repeated use of the phrase at the end of emails convinced me that we had a...

“These forays were damaging to him at his trial, but the...”
— LRB · Jonathan Raban: Just...

“You describe a state of mind a friend of mine calls suicide...”
— The Five Big Mistakes That...

“What all these examples seem to imply is a deep unease with...”
— Kira Cochrane:...

“Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other...”
— Travelers’ Laptops May...

“The collection of ne’er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh, let’s...

“I remember an edition of Face the Music when Joseph Cooper...”
— Richard Coles on the best...

“There ain’t nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow line and dead...

“in the introduction to his book /Rethinking Life and Death/,...”
— The Uncredible Hallq »...

“Whenever I see that there is a new Alice Munro story, my...”
— AmbivaBlog: A**holier Than...

“I think that the real religion is about the understanding...”
— John Cleese | The A.V. Club

“So why do women leave science, engineering, and technology...”
— Stopping the Exodus of Women...

“The First Rule Of Google Trends Is You Don’t Talk...”
— Mr. Google, Tear Down This...

“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” - John Stuart Mill

scriptologically...

I would have to say that the Constitution established America as a Christian nation. — John...

“All the film lacks is a subtitle: “The Lying, the Bitch, and...”
— Carrie: The Current Cinema:...

“He treats reality like it’s out to get him.” - Jon Stewart, on George W. Bush.

“When she first moved there, she says, she felt so...”
— Books | Lorrie Moore -...

“The former Daily Mirror women’s editor Felicity Green,...”
— No country for old men: Stuart...

And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first...

“life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in...

“ Memory is continually created, a story told and retold,...”
— Jenny Diski: biographical and...

“There are so many stories we can tell ourselves to justify...”
— Michael Pollan urges us not to...

“Open slot. So now that Hillary’s out, what major female...”
— Alex Balk - Open slot.

“Calling evolution an inspiration for Nazism is like calling...”
— Friendly Atheist »...

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach...”
— Amazon.com: The Year of...

“She’s just trying to flatten my self-esteem,” I...”
— Lifeandhealth | ‘It is...

“Oscar Wilde, who knew a thing or two about destabilising...”
— Lifeandhealth | This column...

Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers

“Whereas I look at the polygamist sect in Texas with...”
—  Frans de Waal Answers Your...

“Characters in her work constantly go on tiny, utterly...”
— Powell’s Books -...

“It amazed me,” she said in that interview, “how...”
— Lifeandhealth | ‘She...

“A resurgent wild turkey population has caused problems in...”
— Tim Dowling: A...

“What was I doing dating 20somethings through college and...”
— Eternal Adolescence: Remember...

“See how nice it is to get rid of all that stimulation and...”
— Jon Ronson’s journey of...

“The surest defense against evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking,...

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is...

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is...

“The web’s significance is that it makes sharing...”
— Stuart Jeffries on the rise of...

“Laura Nyro is a part of the template from which my own...”
— The G Spot

“Since 1988 many prominent architecture astronauts have been...”
— Architecture astronauts take...

“Rebellion is a substitute for inner peace. It gives meaning and purpose to life so long as...

“THE FIVE STEPS OF I WILL NOT BE BROKEN FACE FACTS. One...”
— Survivor Corps, Jerry White,...

There’s a passage in one of Plato’s dialogues in which Socrates says that idealistic...

Lately I’ve noticed a disturbing tendency in myself to accept things the way they are. -...

“Whatever we can do as individuals to change the way we live at this suddenly very late date...

“cookbook Asparagus Pesto: boil .5lb asparagus 3m; rsrv tips...”
— Twitter

“I’ve somehow got into the habit of rising early and,...”
— Charlie Brooker on getting up...

“Getting away with something is what upsets children.  Not...”
— Biology of the Worst Kind:...

“Real safety is your willingness to not run away from yourself.”

“Matthew McConaughey, whose continuing Hollywood career...”
— Fool’s Gold | |...

“NCSE’s counter-site to the hideous little propaganda...”
— Pharyngula

“science avoids design explanations for natural phenomena out...”
— Six Things in Expelled That...

“The U.S. seems almost paralyzed, mesmerized by Iraq and...”
— Losing Our Will - New York...

“I spoke to a guy friend who said, ‘You’re being...”
— Salon.com Life | Hey, Obama...

“This busy charm—a man on his way out to a party, feeling...”
— Profiles: Somebody Has to Be...

“We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition;...

Nothing is real except chance.

“Femininity, in fact, can’t even be practiced without stuff...”
— Feminizers without borders:...

“The greater the sex-based dimorphism in commercial products,...”
— Feminizers without borders:...

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path,...

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the...

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. We leave our...

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to...

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil,...

%u201C This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty...

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is...

Fear of the week: batrachophobia. Fear of frogs and toads.

“If you’re lucky, the most fundamental lesson of life —...”
— Counting One’s...

“Suppose there were an iron room with no windows or doors, a room it would be virtually...

“We work in the dark. We do what we can. We give what we have.” - Henry James, in his...

The following is a list of extensions I have personally tested with Firefox 3 Beta 3. If there are...

An orchard worker in New Zealand called the police to complain that he was being raped by a ...

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I...

“The results suggest that mothers with school-aged children...”
— Do childless women make the...

“…In the same era, a more terrible blow for duets in...”
— on duets

Getting laid through Match.com isn%u2019t as easy as the adverts make it out to be. I%u2019m hoping...

“The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.” William...

map-o-tassie…

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that...

“Most women end up alone anyway, and how they cope is what...”
— How did Seventies feminists...

So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years— Twenty years largely wasted, the...

“…Nor do I, normally, agree with anything the...”
— Antisocial behaviour disorder

“In her autobiography, Whitehorn writes that she declined the...”
— Lifeandhealth | I ve always...

“Commutant - Someone who derives secret pleasure from...”
— Wyse words

When I was young my heart and head were light, And I was gay and feckless as a colt Out in the...

Prospero: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are...

“Never mind the bizarre calculus that it’s somehow a good...”
— Alex Balk

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs...

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

“Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as...

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the...

“Marriage isn’t a means of preserving love, sir. It merely mummifies the...

“You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees...

“Then it struck me, that here in this crazy, consumer world, here was a Man who drives no car,...

“The Catch-22 metaphor is seriously overused, but consider...”
— Because They Said So - New...

“Yet not to be outdone, we have Madonna, whose Raising Malawi...”
— Marina Hyde: Lost in showbiz |...

“In one common experiment, the “Goldberg paradigm,” people...”
— When Women Rule - New York...

“But the point isn’t to force yourself to make...”
— Guardian | This column will...

“Every temperament has its own style. Some folks just get...”
— Austin Chronicle: Print an...

%u201CBut remember that people throw stones on trees that have fruits. If a tree doesn’t have...

“The saints, the hermits, the intellectuals… the ones that shaped history, are the...

“Then there’s the “incremental” part. Sworn...”
— Guardian | The art of zen

“If you believe that there are forces out there larger and greater than ourselves, then a goal...

“If I were Microsoft, I’d rather be thought of as an...”
—  Knee-deep in the dead

kakopygian adj. having ugly buttocks

“He lit a match to check a tank. That’s why they call...”
— Darwin Awards - Wikipedia, the...

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by...

End-of-Life Advice on Dying and Living a Better Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and translated...