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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:26:43 -0400

"Most of the creations of intellect or fancy pass away for good after a time that varies between an..."

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:42:02 -0400

“Most of the creations of intellect or fancy pass away for good after a time that varies between an after-dinner hour and a generation. Some, however, do not.”

- Joseph A. Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

This just about sums things up nicely

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:26:22 -0400

This just about sums things up nicely

"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist; Then they..."

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:20:21 -0400

“First they came for the communists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

- Martin Niemöller

Music and Life - Alan Watts

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:06:12 -0400

Music and Life - Alan Watts

"We’ve become so obsessed with building baseball fields, that we forget that we’re..."

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:17:26 -0400

“We’ve become so obsessed with building baseball fields, that we forget that we’re supposed to play in them”

- Ze Frank

Happiness in Business (via budcaddell)

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:37:03 -0400

Happiness in Business (via budcaddell)

We Didn’t Start the Flame War (via collegehumor)

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:34:35 -0400

We Didn’t Start the Flame War (via collegehumor)

jnunemaker: Hilarious and depressingly true.

Wed, 27 May 2009 18:18:11 -0400

jnunemaker:

Hilarious and depressingly true.

"The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in the spec, since if..."

Tue, 26 May 2009 18:20:36 -0400

“The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in the spec, since if they don’t implement it, the spec is nothing but a work of fiction. So they have a lot of influence—I don’t want to be writing fiction, I want to be writing a spec that documents the actual behaviour of browsers.
Whether that’s too much, I don’t know. Does gravity have too much influence on objects on earth? It’s just the way it is.”

- Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification, on whether the browser vendors have too much influence

Olde Timey Notificator Machine Twitters Like It’s 1935

Thu, 14 May 2009 15:58:16 -0400

Olde Timey Notificator Machine Twitters Like It’s 1935

"My Dad said flu vaccines are linked to Autism, so to be safe from swine flu, I’m trying to..."

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:45:04 -0400

“My Dad said flu vaccines are linked to Autism, so to be safe from swine flu, I’m trying to lick an Autistic kid.”

- xkcd - Swine Flu

"Here is how you win the War on Drugs: Legalize drugs, and unleash into drug culture wave after wave..."

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:23:19 -0400

“Here is how you win the War on Drugs: Legalize drugs, and unleash into drug culture wave after wave of middle aged suburbanites, each more middle aged than the one before. You wouldn’t just remove the glamor from drug use, you’d make drugs incredibly boring (my experience comes straight from Facebook, the joy of which declines proportionately to the number of old people who create accounts for use as a professional networking platform). The day pot smoking goes corporate is the day people stop doing it. I tell you this because it is truth.”

- A solution to the medical marijuana mess

"Just weed-whacked a worm in half. Sorry about that, little buddy. On the upside you now have a new..."

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:53:06 -0400

“Just weed-whacked a worm in half. Sorry about that, little buddy. On the upside you now have a new friend.”

- Ryan Daigle

Damn liberals

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:17:28 -0400

Damn liberals

Red states consume more porn?

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:06:50 -0500

Red states consume more porn?:

According to a new Harvard Business School study, eight of the top ten states in terms of online porn consumption were ones where McCain won in the presidential election. Professor Benjamin Edelman…

Red states consume more porn?

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:06:47 -0500

Red states consume more porn?:

From the files

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:55:57 -0500

From the files:

What files? The insane pack-rat files, of course.

I have with me a hard copy of a collection of Republican quotes predicting doom and disaster in the wake of the 1993 Clinton economic stimulus…

What’s wrong with this ad?

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:08:00 -0500

What’s wrong with this ad?

Networks abet continued GOP dominance of the airways

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:59:51 -0500

Networks abet continued GOP dominance of the airways:

Digby:

Can someone explain to me why I’m seeing Republican after Republican on television advising Americans on the right way to run the economy? Is there any reason why we should listen to…