February 2010
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What happens when you unplug from your internet... →
My favorite insight:
“Not everything is urgent. Connectedness helps breed a constant sense of urgency. When you take some time “off,” you realize that many of those pressing items can, and will, wait.”
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Alles gute, Herr Schubert. .
mhsteger:
The...
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January 2010
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frost-at-midnight:
Cello Concerto No. 1 In A...
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i12bent:
It’s already Schubert’s birthday -...
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Beef bowl economics →
“TOKYO — The broiled meat is tender and the rice is silky-smooth. But as Japan’s economic recovery falters, beef bowls have come to symbolize one of its most pressing woes: deflation.
Japan’s big three beef bowl restaurant chains, the country’s answer to hamburger giants like McDonald’s, are in a price war. It is a sign, many people say, of the dire state of Japan’s economy that even...
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Finding The Surprising Gaps in Your Self-Knowledge →
psychotherapy:
Why are people so blissfully ignorant of certain aspects of their personalities?
Take an everyday example: there are some infuriating people who are always late for appointments. A few of these people explain it by saying they are ‘laid-back’, while others seem unaware that they’re always late.
For laid-back people, their lateness is a part of their personality, they are aware...
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Nonlinear thinker →
noosphere:
Engineers prefer linear systems because they’re much easier to work with mathematically, but unfortunately, we live in a largely nonlinear world. So a lot of research is aimed at finding linear characterizations of the behavior of nonlinear systems. That research usually requires a great deal of mathematical insight and trial and error, and even when it’s successful, the results may...
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“But like Mr Obama, social networks have also generated great expectations along...”
– A special report on social networking: A world of connections | The Economist (via greggyour) (via infoneer-pulse)
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Pakistani President signs Women Protection Bill,... →
(via pakistani)
excerpted
KARACHI, Jan 29 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday signed the bill, providing for increased punishment over harassment of women at workplaces.The Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Bill 2009” Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2009 amends both the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, “increasing the punishment for the crime up to...
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“Stay Golden” - Au Revoir Simone
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symphonyno2inem:
oldhollywood:
Bernard...
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Top 10 Embarrassing Things That Didn't Stop People... →
Given Coakley’s lackluster race and Brown’s election by conservatives despite his nudie centerfold photoshoot, what are really the deal-breakers in the eyes of the American public?
The most amusing to me is Barry and his reelection despite his “Bitch, set me up!” reaction caught on camera during a coke sting…
What is also surprising is that Cosmo used to have naked...
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Sonnets to Orpheus, part II, sonnet 12
Want transformation. Oh, take inspiration from the flame, wherein something escapes from you, which flaunts its very burning; each architecting spirit which has mastered the mundane, loves in the swirl of symbol best of all the point of turning.
What stays shut up inside itself, already is solidified; does it dream it’s safe in the shelter of inconspicuous grays? Wait, from far away the...