February 2012
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January 2012
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The Flame Alphabet
believermag:
Regular contributor and occasional husband Ben Marcus’s new novel, The Flame Alphabet, is out today. Marcus is currently on tour. Believer interviews editor Ross Simonini conducted a conversation with Marcus, “Human Beings Are Making a Comeback,” for Salon. Many of Marcus’s contributions to the Believer, including his luminous review of the Jet 708521 JWP-12DX Portable...
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h/t said the king
From their site:
“Ore.e Ref. is challenging designers of the world to NOT design chairs for the rest of the year. It’s that simple. We believe that the world already has enough chairs. Designing new ones only takes time away from renovating the ones we already have. Consider ...
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December 2011
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Be a vegetarian by Glossy Rey. They also provided a rig demo. Super fun.
via Laughing Squid
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rollosaur
– In the Roldos species this animal resides. Usually a really nice, kind, and caring creature. Hates hearing it’s own name and prefers Samantha instead.
Person 1: Rollosaur! Person 2: RAWR! DON’T CALL ME THAT!
(urban dictionary)
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Jean-Francois (2009): a short directed by Bruno MANGYOKU and Tom HAUGOMAT
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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
– William Shakespeare (via kellerycelery)
November 2011
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Roger Ebert's Journal - Six of Herzog's less-known... →
theatlanticvideo:
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is such a classic.
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Dear Future Generations: Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via tattoolit)
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[N]umbers (and all mathematical ideas, for that matter) have lives of their own....
– Steven Strogatz, 2010
A section from the 1st of a 15-part New York Times series, The Elements of Math: Beginning with a column on why numbers are helpful, he goes on to investigate topics including negative numbers, calculus and group theory, finishing with the mysteries of infinity.
(via Good)
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cormac mccarthy’s first television interview ever, with Oprah, June 2008. among other things he explains the 2 moments that lead to him writing the road.
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there are 3 writers that I have book crushes on even though I haven’t read them: Charles Bukowski, Sheila Heti, & Jorges Luis Borges. I’ve read around them. I know bits about them. But I’m somewhere between saving them and a little afraid to read them in case they’re not all I’ve hoped. But they will be. So I’m slowly working my way through the list. 1 down,...
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A friend of mine recently illustrated and published a children’s book with her dad. This is her lovely book trailer for the book, Beto’s Burrito.
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A helpful blog where you can compare the mobile... →
awesome resource
thatssodigital:
Thanks to Jordan for sharing.
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Having been blown away
by a book
I am in the gutter
at the end of the street...
– Mary Ruefle, from “White Buttons” (via bookoasis)
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