May 2013
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May 22nd
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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to...”
– Anne Lamott (via quote-book)
May 22nd
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May 21st
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5 Facts About Tumblr →
pewresearch: Yahoo! today confirmed that it’s buying 6-year-old blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. Who uses Tumblr? We consulted the recent report on social-media demographics from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project to find out.
May 21st
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May 21st
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Exclamation: Your World, in Full Resolution →
yahoo: By Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! Photos tell the stories — stories we’re inspired to relive, share with our friends, or capture simply to express ourselves. Collecting these moments is a part of our everyday. Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery. Today, we’re thrilled…
May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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April 2012
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Apr 9th
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March 2012
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“I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.”
– Hoban “Wash” Washburne - Serenity (via mrjoshua79)
Mar 15th
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Mar 4th
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February 2012
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Feb 22nd
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January 2012
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Jan 29th
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.”
– Scrubs (via laceofpearls)
Jan 12th
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Jan 9th
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“I begin to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught...”
– My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl (via teeaah)
Jan 6th
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519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an...
Jan 6th
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December 2011
4 posts
Dec 28th
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Dec 10th
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“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a...”
– Dalai Lama XIV (via brunomarinho)
Dec 10th
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November 2011
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“The greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via joseph-schlichting)
Nov 12th
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Nov 12th
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Wikileaks Broke, Will Stop Publishing →
futurejournalismproject: View ReadWriteWeb: Days after the announcement that the US troops would be withdrawn from Iraq, Wikileaks announced today that it will cease publication of new leaked documents to focus on rebuilding its finances. The organization alleges that Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union have refused to process or withheld 95% of the attempted donations...
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Future Journalism Project: 8 All-Time Great... →
futurejournalismproject: Last week Dan from the Electric Typewriter asked us what some of our favorite all-time magazine articles are. I replied with this list of eight and then asked about his. He replies below. — Michael First of all thanks for the excellent reading list, classics indeed. As requested, here are…
Nov 10th
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Future Journalism Project: 8 All-Time Great... →
futurejournalismproject: Last week Dan from the Electric Typewriter asked us what some of our favorite all-time magazine articles are. I replied with this list of eight and then asked about his. He replies below. — Michael First of all thanks for the excellent reading list, classics indeed. As requested, here are…
Nov 10th
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In other words, imagine Groupon as a crack dealer.... →
Nov 9th
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“Too bad people didn’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the...”
– Eric Jerome Dickey (the novel Pleasure)
Nov 9th
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
Nov 8th
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Nov 8th
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“This is Bach. And Bach, more than any other music, and these pieces, more than...”
Nov 7th
“You are underestimating the future. You are fretting about the now; worrying...”
– Steve Jobs (via shiv53)
Nov 7th
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Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Impudent... →
The universe of Sherlock Holmes has expanded well beyond the confines of the stories in which he appears. Partially to blame for this is the wholly new, very specialized and possibly unique brand of literary criticism—known as the Great Game—that has grown up around him. The Game originated in a paper delivered at Oxford in 1911 by Ronald Knox. In this paper, as Michael Dirda relates in his...
Nov 6th
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With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again →
Sitting with Gates, overlooking the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s gleaming new $500 million campus, full of glimmering reflecting pools and glass edifices, it’s possible to see a future with exponentially less pain and suffering. It’s also a remarkably incisive exercise in getting inside the brain of one of history’s greatest business visionaries. By dissecting with him and his wife,...
Nov 6th
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“Instead of moving nuclear material in armored, well-defended convoys,...”
– The Ally From Hell (via theatlantic)
Nov 5th
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