the casual supplement (a commonplace book)Tumblr (3.0; @jeeves)http://tumble77.com/“some social situations don’t lend themselves to the easy reconciliation of reason and role”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_04_10_a_why.html" target="_blank">Malcolm Gladwell: Here’s Why</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/WXroH_WA5rw" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/WXroH_WA5rw/436859236http://tumble77.com/post/436859236Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:02:54 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/436859236<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyhzbtNl4f1qz63rzo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://moosegarden.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">moosegarden</a>)</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/VdiOsLiN4Oc" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/VdiOsLiN4Oc/435699885http://tumble77.com/post/435699885Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:11:05 -0500underwaterdivingillustrationoctopusmarinehttp://tumble77.com/post/435699885<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxsyp6wfSh1qz4m5bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://jakelodwick.tumblr.com/post/387895220/the-uraniborg-the-first-custom-built" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">jakelodwick</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The Uraniborg, “the first custom-built observatory, and the last to be built without a telescope as its primary instrument”.</p></blockquote><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/hI-VPEQwivw" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/hI-VPEQwivw/435211850http://tumble77.com/post/435211850Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:45:57 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/435211850“there’s a very special sense of entitlement among this generation known as “millennials”—kids that grew up in the flush 1990s, when business was good and everyone’s parents told them they could be whatever they dreamed of”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/is-indie-dead.html?variant=print" target="_blank">Is Indie Dead?</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/7UY9mZ4TkPo" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/7UY9mZ4TkPo/434868554http://tumble77.com/post/434868554Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:34:51 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/434868554<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyh7bcVTbX1qz4edwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://handa.tumblr.com/post/415269003/a-song-for-love-a-madestra-w-people-boy" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">handa</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=234335" target="_blank">A song for love - A. Madestra W., people, boy, man, song, music, india uploaded by jujuba</a></p></blockquote><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/To259YBKyv4" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/To259YBKyv4/434867233http://tumble77.com/post/434867233Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:33:53 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/434867233<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyprk9iJrF1qaejg5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://doctorswithoutborders.tumblr.com/post/432066722/bangladesh-2010-c-javier-arcenillas-about-6-000" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">doctorswithoutborders</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bangladesh 2010 © Javier Arcenillas</p> <p>About 6,000 people have arrived at the Kutupalong makeshift camp in southern Bangladesh since a violent crackdown on stateless Rohingya people began in October 2009. Many were victims of beatings and harassment.</p> <p><a href="Bangladesh:%20Ethnic%20Rohingya%20People%20Victims%20of%20a%20Violent%20Crackdown" target="_blank">“Bangladesh: Ethnic Rohingya People Victims of a Violent Crackdown”</a></p> </blockquote><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/AoLq6GArIP0" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/AoLq6GArIP0/434863341http://tumble77.com/post/434863341Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:52 -0500bangladeshphotophotographydevelopmentmsfdoctorswithoutbordersmedecinssansfrontiershttp://tumble77.com/post/434863341“They believe that telling the stories of hopeless people can help bring them hope—or at least arrange it so that others don’t suffer the same fate the next time around.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-disaster-pool" target="_blank">The Disaster Pool by Noam Scheiber in The New Republic</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/I3HC_r58VwQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/I3HC_r58VwQ/434677046http://tumble77.com/post/434677046Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:01:51 -0500journalismcrisismediahttp://tumble77.com/post/434677046<iframe src="http://video.economist.com/linking/index.jsp?skin=oneclip&ehv=http://audiovideo.economist.com/&fr_story=487c5d3339160a17745fc0c046d2774f9af39515&rf=ev&hl=true" width="402" height="336" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Shaped by War Don McCullin, photojournalist and war correspondent.</p> <blockquote> <p>These photographs live in my soul … they poison it.</p> </blockquote> <p>via <a href="http://audiovideo.economist.com" target="_blank">The Economist</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/mie6kUv0tw4" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/mie6kUv0tw4/433620732http://tumble77.com/post/433620732Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:59:02 -0500photophotographyphotojournalismjournalismwarsufferingphotographereconomistvideohttp://tumble77.com/post/433620732“The importation of Third World laborers is a standard practice in Iraq, where the huge problem of local unemployment is trumped by American fears of the local population, and where it is not unusual, for instance, to find U.S. troops being served in chow halls by Sri Lankans wearing white shirts and bow ties.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/langewiesche200711?printable=true" target="_blank">The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad in Vanity Fair</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/CjQPehNxSTQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/CjQPehNxSTQ/433607633http://tumble77.com/post/433607633Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:53:05 -0500iraqembassyusawarhttp://tumble77.com/post/433607633<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kvhqkz1Fj91qzu6nxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/308727915/bruce-davidson-via-this-recording" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">youmightfindyourself</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Davidson_%28photographer%29" target="_blank">Bruce Davidson</a> (via <a href="http://thisrecording.com/today/2009/12/29/in-which-we-do-whatever-we-can-get-away-with.html" target="_blank">this recording</a>)</p></blockquote><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/PcDYxy5UYvI" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/PcDYxy5UYvI/433577833http://tumble77.com/post/433577833Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:39:05 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/433577833“This is punk science”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://fury.com/2009/10/the-higgs-dam-sending-signals-backwards-in-time-without-time-travel/" target="_blank">The Higgs Dam: Sending signals backwards in time without time travel «  fox @ fury</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/G7oU-xsZS3w" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/G7oU-xsZS3w/432388621http://tumble77.com/post/432388621Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:00:52 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/432388621<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyizi6izaS1qz4rhfo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://variationsonnormal.com/2009/09/07/pimp-my-brolly/" target="_blank">Pimp my brolly… Variations on normal by Dominic Wilcox</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/hW01NkCSrYs" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/hW01NkCSrYs/430247377http://tumble77.com/post/430247377Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:01:54 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/430247377“as a result you wind up sending letters to every human that you have known in your life in hopes that they would write back to you.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/howiwrite/Transcripts/Sapolsky_transcript.html" target="_blank">How I Write: Robert Sapolsky Transcript</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/dFzkfgQfL1U" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/dFzkfgQfL1U/428295932http://tumble77.com/post/428295932Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:01:51 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/428295932<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xFQkMAPVoIo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xFQkMAPVoIo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQkMAPVoIo&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">Craig Ferguson on excessive, accentuated youthfulness and Why Everything Sucks.</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/A7wm2t1yUdw" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/A7wm2t1yUdw/426249620http://tumble77.com/post/426249620Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:01:51 -0500youthcreativityyouthfulnesscraig fergusonrantsocialsocietyculturehttp://tumble77.com/post/426249620“he was afraid that if the idea that he was depressed gained currency, he would forfeit his right to his opinions… . Every word he spoke would become a symptom of disease”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_04_10_a_why.html" target="_blank">Malcolm Gladwell: Here’s Why</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/iQ6rlXWXdqg" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/iQ6rlXWXdqg/424345273http://tumble77.com/post/424345273Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:18:51 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/424345273<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kykuc4VITA1qz4rhfo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.myraphan.com/sketchblog/2010/malcolm-gladwell-portrait/#respond" target="_blank">Malcolm Gladwell as illustrated Myra Phan</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/uaoMMzCLzaU" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/uaoMMzCLzaU/424176290http://tumble77.com/post/424176290Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:01:00 -0500gladwellillustrationportraitprofilehttp://tumble77.com/post/424176290<a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2142">cellar door</a>: <p><em>the most beautiful phrase in English.</em></p> <blockquote> <p>The Romantic Side of Familiar Words</p> </blockquote><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/F2BjEEtHGG4" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/F2BjEEtHGG4/423066216http://tumble77.com/post/423066216Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:13:54 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/423066216<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyd2zjcwQX1qzoh7yo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>“I can’t believe they can’t talk to each other directly …”</p> <p><a href="http://jinon.tumblr.com/post/415275834/carios-yuiti-jung-swandildo-via" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">jinon</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://carios.tumblr.com/post/414951272/yuiti-jung-swandildo-via" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">carios</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://yuiti.tumblr.com/post/413833670/jung-swandildo-via-demonsdancealone" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">yuiti</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://jung.tumblr.com/post/413397609/swandildo-via-demonsdancealone" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">jung</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://swandildo.tumblr.com/post/412475952/via-demonsdancealone" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">swandildo</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>(via <a href="http://demonsdancealone.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">demonsdancealone</a>)</p></blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/IyQo2VQRil4" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/IyQo2VQRil4/423016238http://tumble77.com/post/423016238Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:49:00 -0500communicationillustrationhttp://tumble77.com/post/423016238“The impersonality of codes is what makes the law fair. But it is also what can make the legal system so painful for victims, who find no room for their voices and their anger and their experiences. Codes punish, but they cannot heal.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.gladwell.com/2006/2006_04_10_a_why.html" target="_blank">Malcolm Gladwell: Here’s Why</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/GU6263PabWI" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/GU6263PabWI/422681990http://tumble77.com/post/422681990Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:49:57 -0500http://tumble77.com/post/422681990<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyhj89xGAP1qz4rlzo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tumble77/~4/IQfQSnr_Cnw" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tumble77/~3/IQfQSnr_Cnw/422045477http://tumble77.com/post/422045477Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:01:57 -0500strangelovekubrickhttp://tumble77.com/post/422045477