March 2012
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“Money really is a sort of a gentlemen’s agreement to agree on where the...”
– George Dyson - @Edge
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“I am glad you are happy — but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe...”
– Francis Scott Fitzgerald to his 11-year-old daughter, “Scottie” [via Letters of Note]
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“The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician,...”
– Anthony Burgess, Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 48
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1733, Japan: Seven Reasons for Divorce - Lapham's... →
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“We are allowed to order—from the state library—only nonfiction and law books. Of...”
– Eldridge Cleaver, “No Sex in the Prison Library” - Lapham’s Quarterly
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“Ma vi domando: che cosa garantisce una democrazia che una dittatura non possa...”
– Carmelo Bene [via pooryorickproductions]
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“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous,...”
– Robert Pirosh attempt at a screenwriting job [via Letters of Note]
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Palettes of Famous Painters - @Retronaut →
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“Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making...”
– Henry Louis Mencken
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638 Ways to Kill Castro - Wikipedia →
638 Ways to Kill Castro is a Channel 4 documentary film, broadcast in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2006, which tells the story of some of the numerous attempts of the Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro.
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“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
– Andy Warhol [via girlinlondon]
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Instapaper Placebo →
I’ve built instapaper placebo because instapaper itself is too complex for what I need. I don’t need a nice mobile app for reading. I don’t need a way to remove all the clutter from the page. I don’t need an online cross-platform bookmark syncing service. I just need a way of offloading all my good intentions. A way to stop hoarding links. And with less stuff to read I can make more stuff instead....
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WatchPeter Diamandis: Abundance is our future
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“In December 1843, The Economist relayed its first reported anecdotes about...”
– The Economist in China: Old hands
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How Freud Canonized Himself - Mikkel... →
The goal of the Freud Archives had never been to make the documents of Freudianism available to the public, as Luther Evans, the Librarian of Congress, undoubtedly believed when Eissler approached him. In reality, the Library of Congress and the American people had been duped. What Anna Freud and the Freudian Family sought, quite simply, was a safety deposit box where they could lock up the...
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International Dunhuang Project →
IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.
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“D’Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that — but I...”
– Richard Feynman writing to his deceased wife [via Letters of Note]
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