June 2012
70 posts
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Coldplay knows how to put on a concert
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Business in the front, party in the back.
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“The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think...”
– A Hologram for the King
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via dewdropss)
Watchveecubed:
Gary Oldman on Basketball actors.
Hilarious!
How Depressed People Use the Internet →
teachingliteracy:
infoneer-pulse:
There were two major findings. First, we identified several features of Internet usage that correlated with depression. In other words, we found a trend: in general, the more a participant’s score on the survey indicated depression, the more his or her Internet usage included these (rather technical-sounding) features — for instance, “p2p packets,” which...
Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and...
mentalflossr:
It was 1963, and 16-year-old Bruce McAllister was sick of symbol-hunting in English class. Rather than quarrel with his teacher, he went straight to the source: McAllister mailed a crude, four-question survey to 150 novelists, asking if they intentionally planted symbolism in their work. Seventy-five authors responded. Here’s what they had to say.
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“We all sat in a circle right in the middle of the cross, where the two boards...”
– The Fault in our Stars
John Green
“It is a curious enigma that so great a mind would question the most obvious...”
– The Third Policeman
Flann O’Brien
