January 2012
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The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars...
– Harold Innis, “Minerva’s Owl,” The Bias of Communication, 1951
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The recent photographs of the Northern Lights have been wonderful, but this video of the Northern Lights in motion is extraordinary. -Savy
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Northern Lights over Norwegian Laplands
I have a crush on Aurora Borealis.
Failing upwards: Living in a bureaucratic world -... →
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Thinking about beauracracy in a way that differs from the norm.
This piece is covering a topic that has been on my mind a lot in the last few weeks. It’s only throwing fuel on the fires generating my thoughts, but most things seem to do that with me of late.
In this set up, a world of organisations, everyone is a cog within a cog within a cog in an infinite regress.
This...
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jthurteau asked: What's your coming out story? (if you feel like sharing)
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All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying...
– W.H. Auden, “Interlude: West’s Disease”, from The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays, 1962
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Now, in contemporary industrialized democracies, the legitimate administration...
– David Graeber (via bbcity)
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Mrs. Slocombe's Pussy Quotes →
I found these hilarious when I was 15, and I find them hilarious now. For those who do not know, Ms. Slocombe is a character from Are You Being Served? who is quite fond of discussing her “pussy” cat. Hilarity ensues.
“I’ll put my pussy in front of the hole, and the next time he comes out, he’ll get a nasty shock.”
“I have a pussy of great antiquity,...
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The finer works of art are miracles in the sense that they are so unlikely to...
– William Gass, “The Literary Miracle” in Life Sentences, 2012
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I'm an other category American!
Thanks Mitch!