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.
(via kateoplis)
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