March 2011
64 posts
February 2011
45 posts
“1. Kill You 2. Forget 3. Sick more often”
– “List three things you have learned about marijuana” from DARE factbook. 5th grade me would be proud as I go through my closets while abusing prescription medications. also, what were they teaching us about grass?!
“I think your cool for a gril”
– Dwight, from my old camp memory book. goddamn it i’ve been waiting for this confirmation for forever!
“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of...”
– Derrick Jensen, A Language Older than Words (via whatembersconsumed)
“Man is not willingly a political animal. The human male associates with his...”
– —Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Part I: Our Oriental Heritage, 1st edt., chapter III, p. 21. (via ericbell)
And, to the degree the average man thinks as Durant describes, the average man is right. (via fuckyeahemergence)
Climate Adaptation: BREAKING: House votes to... →
climateadaptation:
Reblog widely: Republicans with (I think) two democrats, voted Saturday at 2am to stop the US from funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Over 180 countries fund the IPCC, with the US giving around $2 million annually (a clear pittance relative to US debt).
I believe this is…
What is happening???
Watchthedailywhat:
Lights Out: Basic Brown, Basic Blue is a psychotropically influenced pseudo-documentary directed by Matt Groening’s dad Homer — namesake of the Simpson family patriarch.
[moviefone.]
omggg how do they know
So It Goes: e.e. cummings →
tarihci:
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and...
“To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you...”
– Jules Henry (via whatembersconsumed)
My first subcomandante marcos translation--- love...
El cuento de los mágicos conejitos de chocolate The story of the magical chocolate bunny rabbits
(El neoliberalismo, la líbido conejil y los niños) (Neo-liberalism, the lagomorphic libido and the children)
(Homenaje de Durito a los westerns, ¿remember “El bueno, el malo y el feo”?)
(Durito’s (*translator’s note- Durito is a small beetle-like creature with a big ego that...
Climate Adaptation: UN Climate Change Diplomacy:... →
climateadaptation:
An e-learning course on Climate Change Diplomacy has been developed by the Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The course aims to provide the necessary training for participation in multilateral negotiations, public sector…
Things that piss me off about 'travelers'
listsforthefuture:
You pack way too much shit.
You bring bug spray and hand sanitizer.
“The food might be dirty!”
You think you’re constantly being robbed or raped.
You’ve only been in the airport and you think you know the entire country.
You don’t bring or read maps.
“spiritual journeyers”/eat-pray-love-ers
“I am not a tourist,” said the guy carrying a million shopping bags.
(I may be...
“There are a hundred people inside each of us who can write… They all have strong...”
– Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water (via whatembersconsumed)
“One of the great failings of our culture is the nearly universal belief that...”
– Derrick Jensen, Walking on Water (via whatembersconsumed)
“The real information gap in the twenty-first century is not who has access to...”
– Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload (via youmightfindyourself)
“If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
– Unknown (via whatembersconsumed)
What Embers Consumed: Why the eductional system in... →
whatembersconsumed:
In 1888, the Senate Committee on Education, nervous about the high quality of education provided by non-standardized, local schools, reported, “We believe that education is one of the principal causes of discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes.”
Industrial…
“What Turing saw, and Wittgenstein did not, was the importance of the fact that a...”
– TIME 100: Ludwig Wittgenstein (via yiseon)
Not really, Dan. Turing didn’t “leave us” the computer and Wittgenstein was talking about applications and uselesness of formal logicians’ systems vs. the liar paradox, not the need for a computer to understand anything. (via fuckyeahemergence)
"China is building entire city dedicated to cloud...
climateadaptation:
“China is building a city-sized cloud computing and office complex that will include a mega data center, one of the projects fueling that country’s double-digit growth in IT spending.
The entire complex will cover some 6.2 million square feet, with the initial data center space accounting for approximately 646,000 square feet, according to IBM, which is collaborating...
