January 2012
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changetheratio:
Sheryl Sandberg’s TEDWomen talk. It’s excellent and inspiring, of course - I am far behind in posting it - but it is also very saddening. Two anecdotes stuck out: (1) The time she went to a tony private equity firm and they couldn’t direct her to the ladies room, because they didn’t know where it was, because they had not hosted any ladies to so direct; (2) Her account of the...
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(via San Francisco (1955 Cinemascope film) : Tullio Pellegrini : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive)
December 2011
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Please donate and help my awesome friend, Gwen Gordon, get this important film made! (via Seriously! | the future depends on play)
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(via North Korea Seeks to Lure Tourists to Holiday Cruises - NYTimes.com)
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(via Visitors See North Korea Still Stunted by Its Isolation - The New York Times)
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Beans are not a food we associate with urgency. Beans are stored wealth. They...
– I love these lines. Greek Gigandes Beans Recipe - Stewed Greek Beans | Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
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November 2011
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As defenses get more complex, the answer isn’t always to get more complex...
– Chris Brown on the success of the 49ers and Alex Smith - Grantland
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October 2011
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One night in 1964, in Davis’ second year as the Raiders’ coach, an...
– That, my friends, is how you handle a volatile situation. Peter Richmond remembers Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis - Grantland
September 2011
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August 2011
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(via The Big Lebowski Live Cast Reunion - live streaming video powered by Livestream)
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BookmarkQ | Create short URL to a quote on a Web... →
Bookmarking with granular addressability.
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MLB warns players of deer-antler spray, report... →
Back in the day, my Mom had me drink Chinese herbal medicine containing dried velvet patches from deer antler. That explains my superhuman strength and giant head.
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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still...
– Via Joe Mathews. Minority report: H.L. Mencken’s … - Google Books
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(via Spontaneous and Creative Short Film of a Dying Dragonfly Shot with a Canon 7D)
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated...
– Via Alex Kjerulf. Martha Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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July 2011
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Wow.
Via Rebecca Petzel. (via Enormously moving speech on the way the Internet transforms lives – Boing Boing)
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(via Field of Dreams 2: NFL Lockout with Taylor Lautner from Taylor Lautner, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Lewis, Tony Gonzalez, Shawne Merriman, Marielle Jaffe, Antonio Cromartie, Marshall Faulk, Kirk Morrison, Steve Smith, Shaun Phillips, Rich Eisen, Dwight Freeney, DeSean Jackson, Funny Or Die, Eric Appel, Alex Fernie, Ryan Perez, christiansprenger, and BoTown Sound)
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I don’t know what I am. I don’t fit into a category. I seem to be a...
– Buckminster Fuller. Via Doors of Perception weblog: How to make systems thinking sexy
June 2011
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(via Twitter Engages Students In Enrique Legaspi’s L.A. Classroom)
Via Radha Seshagiri
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Specials →
Via Milos Rancic.
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Seriously, Ke$ha and Jimmy Wales. One of these people is covered in glitter, and...
– The Beer Gut is a blog where I try to be funny.: Why you should donate like, a fucking dollar to Wikipedia
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You come into a season and see the talent on your roster and you immediately...
– Dwyane Wade’s hard-earned wisdom, following the Heat’s loss to the Mavericks in the Finals.
2011 NBA Finals: LeBron James of Miami Heat backs off comments about fans - ESPN
May 2011
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Instead of trying to dictate, he was leading. Instead of bullying the...
– The maturation of Kobe Bryant, thanks to Phil Jackson. I love how the author distinguishes true leadership.
Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant ready to take on the post-Phil Jackson era - ESPN Los Angeles
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(via Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - Presentation for businesses by Delphine Ménard on Prezi)
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I ran a new product development group within a large company and I would like to...
– John Borthwick, via Kellan. Shipping, it gets harder - Laughing Meme
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April 2011
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Via Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook - Hiring the Right People)
All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark.
– Merlin Mann
The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — New York Magazine
March 2011
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald. Via The Test of a First Rate Philanthropist | Tactical Philanthropy
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When spider webs unite, they can halt even a lion.
– African proverb. Via Robin Athey.
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One of Mischel’s favorite metaphors for this model of personality, known as...
– The secret of self-control : The New Yorker
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The contemplation of things as they are without substitution or imposture...
– Francis Bacon on “the contemplation of things as they are” - Contemplative Computing