January 2012
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hey amber rae: Cut the Bullshit: Radical honesty,... →
rickwebb:
heyamberrae:
Imagine if we lived radically honest and naked lives.
We told the truth, all the time. We stopped dancing on eggshells. We eliminated secrets. We cut out the filters between our brains and our mouths.
Instead of a passive “no worries,” we tell our friend he pissed us off. We stop saying…
I tried this once. It lasted about a month and then my best friend and my...
“To leave spiritual transformation in the background as a sort of optional extra,...”
– Highlighted by Dave Coustan in The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
“Dimmer Switches 85% - 100% – definitely worth investing in the right bulb for...”
– Seattle City Light Residential Conservation | Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Who knew. We’re all going to need to learn more about this stuff pretty quickly.
“10. Kooby Pickett.
9. Creepy Pockets.”
– David Letterman Top Ten Baseball Lists III on Baseball Almanac
From the May 9, 1997 “Top Ten Ways To Mispronounce Kirby Puckett.”
You Fell Asleep Watching a DVD →
Heh (via @shloobykitten)
“Despite being open to unconventional verbs/actions like “nommed,” as of this...”
– Facebook’s New Timeline Apps Introduce New Actions Like “Bought,” “Want” And “Love” | TechCrunch
“Everything positive that has happened in my life has been because I was open and...”
– The Minimalist Cabin Project | Andrew Hyde (via brianoberkirch)
Haven’t read this yet (will now), but that excerpt is pretty darn close to the advice my dad gave me as I moved to Atlanta almost 8 years ago, with no job, housing, or pre-existing friends there to start with. “Be open to...
Cold hard cash -> Post-rigor mortis pie hole
rickwebb:
lilyb replied to your quote: OFTEN Incorrect pronunciation: off – ten …
You know, Rick Webb, and I say this with love, but that’s going to be quite the collection of stuff we’ll be prying out of your cold dead hands.
Ha! That is true, I love that phrase. I will have to go back through all my blogs and make a list of all the things I’ll be holding in those hands in my coffin. I’ll bet...
“Sub” has kind of taken over because of Subway, but hoagie, grinder, hero all...”
– via Andrew Nusca: AV Club on The etymology of “jawn” and other Philly-centric slang
I also grew up in central NJ, but I we were definitely on the hoagie side of the hero/hoagie divide. See also: Hoagie Haven.
(via caro)
A lot of Poor Righteous Teachers slang in here.
I once read in a...
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“I read in a Neuro course that there is a campaign to change the name of Sonic...”
– From the comments on: 11 Insane Features of Normal Human Anatomy - Mental Floss
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“The department of agriculture projects that our meat and poultry consumption...”
– Why Are We Eating Less Meat? - Mark Bittman
I’d like to believe it’s that the Food Inc. message to know where and how your meal is produced is getting through to a lot of people.
Fox Woods: Become smarter, Initial plan of... →
This is all really good advice for 2012 for anyone. I’m going to take this up as well. Not sure why Tumblr has ellipsized it, but do go back and read the whole thing.
foxwoods:
Become smarter, Initial plan of attack.
Part 1: The known
I know the types of things that make me feel like I’m becoming smarter by doing them. Reading really high quality articles (see: Longreads), reading...
“But why the need for metadata when regular words have been working so well? When...”
– How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (Updated)
Some of us have been saying this since February of 2008.
“Hashtags at their best stand in as what linguists call “paralanguage,” like...”
– How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (via slantback)
Thank you.
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“Instagram is the narrative of now, I don’t feel particularly precious about...”
– By the way, I’d posit that for most people, most of the time, this is what photography was like before Flickr.
Instagram and Flickr, the one where I refine my argument « Rev Dan Catt’s Blog (via iamdanw)
I need to dig deeper into this, because there’s an implicit notion I’m not...
“He reminisces on Russell’s sweater-vest days, comparing the Def Jam...”
– Dave Tompkins on T La Rock and the lost memories of Def Jam’s first rapper - Grantland
“From why “personality” is a myth… to how “character” fluctuates … to a multitude...”
– References to other books redacted here, but worth looking at in the brainpicker link.
Situations Matter: How Context Shapes Our Lives | Brain Pickings
(via slavin)
I’m no longer an undergrad (or graduate student), so I think I’m at a safe distance to point out what I see as something...
Google's Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For... →
Pay-per-post is weak sauce. I wonder if the GOOG unknowingly contracted to an agency that does business this way.
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“Amazon neither invented nor appropriated its basic strategies from Best Buy or...”
– (via Forbes)
I’ll be the first one to cast aspersions on the notion of a company doing what it wants customers to want rather than what they really want, but I think it’s a little oversimplified here in order to make a nice neat sound bite. Amazon does what consumers want (and makes...
December 2011
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