May 2013
8 posts
“When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its...”
– Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
“And space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human...”
– Ada or Ardor, Vladimir Nabokov
April 2013
28 posts
“I’d get online and look up and 40 minutes would have gone by, and my...”
– George Saunders: My desktop | Books | guardian.co.uk
“More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were...”
– Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky
Read that AGAIN.
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“in an aging society, we can’t afford to have a significant portion of the...”
– Robots Are Not Killing Jobs, Says a Roboticist - IEEE Spectrum
“Foxconn is starting a factory in Texas. Lenovo is starting a factory in North...”
– Robots Are Not Killing Jobs, Says a Roboticist - IEEE Spectrum
“Making love was never about you and me in a bed. We made love whenever we held...”
– Ian Thomas
“So, on the other hand, if you’re 25 and have the time and the gumption to stand...”
– Grace Dent: Thatcher’s children we may be, but these death parties are just childish - Comment
“Another time, Captain Wills, who owned one of England’s largest cigarette...”
– As the Paris Ritz Shutters, Remembering Its Mysteries, Misbehaviors, and Unhurried Luxuries | Vanity Fair
“Firms could, for example, turn themselves into actual showrooms, where you come...”
– Megan McArdle on How Luxury Will Win the Shopping Wars - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
March 2013
26 posts
“So now there are two schools of ethnography – one means spending a long time...”
– Taking a shortcut is no way to get ahead in the advertising business
“Google doesn’t owe anyone a “conversation” about what they do with their...”
– Your favorite Thursday sandwich – Marco.org
“Norway is the only country where refillable PET actually has a stronger position...”
“The tendency to dismiss a woman discussing feminism because of her background is...”
– Sheryl Sandberg never claimed she was writing a feminist manifesto, so why this chorus of jeers? | Comment is free | The Guardian
