December 2011
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Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? |... →
happy holidays.
Dec 23rd
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“[W]hile the Jedi may be rebels, they’re also conservative underdogs; they aren’t...”
– tom carson, “jedi uber alles.” bless you, glenn kenny, for giving the world this book and all the sweet, sinfully delicious quasi-intellectualism its essays contain. (via beatyourwings)
Dec 23rd
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“Liberal Education is a more urgent matter for the average person today than...”
– The Imaginative Conservative: Rhetorical Education and Citizenship
Dec 22nd
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“A good politician should be able to explain without seeking to seduce; he should...”
– Vaclav Havel, The intellectual and politics - Al Jazeera
Dec 20th
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“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably...”
– Mortimer Adler, writing in 1940, makes a case for marginalia as the yin-yang of reading/writing (via curiositycounts) I imagine my books as yearbooks for this reason…
Dec 17th
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Bob Lefsetz on lessons learned from Louie C.K. →
austinkleon: Really great list. Some excerpts: …No one arrives instantly formed… …It’s easy to be famous. It’s hard to have fans… …Publicity is a byproduct, it comes after the fact… …You just do the work, you never know what will happen… …A good marketing plan is irrelevant if the product sucks… …A great artist doesn’t repeat what someone else has already done but...
Dec 17th
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“I have one consistency, which is [being] against the totalitarian - on the left...”
– Richard Dawkins interviews Christopher Hitchens
Dec 16th
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The 15 Most Memorable Christopher Hitchens Quotes →
Picnics, man.
Dec 16th
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“Lunch—dinner, drinks, any occasion—with Christopher always was. One of our...”
– Postscript: Christopher Hitchens : The New Yorker a lovely eulogy from Christopher Buckley on Hitch. such a loss.
Dec 16th
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“To me a toy is not only a thing that can be used for a child’s amusement,...”
– Kill Screen - Sky’s the Limit
Dec 15th
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“But what it does bring home to us is that we can no longer pretend that marriage...”
– When It Comes To Marriage, Many More Say ‘I Don’t’ : NPR
Dec 14th
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https://buy.louisck.net/purchase →
thecomedystore: Today is the day that Louis CK took his special directly to his audience. This is a big deal.It means gate keepers are irrelevant, it means an artist can take his work directly to his audience and make good money (?). It is how art should work. Buy the file. Tell your friends to buy the file. Here’s what Louis is saying about Torrents: To those who might wish to “torrent”...
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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“Reading is in fact extremely interactive from a neurological point of view. Your...”
– Margaret Atwood (via austinkleon) True.
Dec 7th
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What I Lost in Libya - Magazine - The Atlantic →
Absolutely incredible story from Clare Gillis.
Dec 7th
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Dreams
gradschoolproblems: Sometimes I dream about my Master’s Thesis, come up with a cogent argument for a problematic aspect of my analysis, and promptly forget the brilliance my subconscious came up with as soon as I wake up. Why can’t my REM cycles be more accommodating of my intellectual pursuits? a new blog venture from some of us in the cohort. follow! we’ll be updating frequently. 
Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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The End of Austin: A Collaborative, Interactive... →
One of the many wonderful projects from my Documenting America class - go look!
Dec 5th
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“LIBERALS WHO FLOCKED to see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 report that...”
– Andrew Leigh, “Right of Hollywood,” in The Weekly Standard (Ed Meese? Really?)
Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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“Today we are particularly enamoured with churning out visual material – well...”
– A Shift From the Visual – thoughtful piece by frogdesign’s Jan Chipchase on the technological advances changing our relationship with images (via curiositycounts)
Dec 1st
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