August 2009
27 posts
..:Things My Boyfriend Says:.. →
“I always get people gifts that I would want. Therefore, this year, you’re getting a gun.”
Mark Easton's UK: Perfect Storm 2030: Public... →
Rather than simply beseeching us to “save the planet”, ministers hope they can convince us in other ways. “Use non-environmental motivations,” their advisors recommend. “Recognise the role of social norms, identity, and status for moving towards greater adoption of pro-environmental behaviours.” In other words, appeal to the things that matter to people right...
Britons flock to high-strength alcohol →
Despite the negative connotations attached to binge drinking, nearly 60% of consumers claim to be more aware of campaigns encouraging them to drink responsibly, and 49% say they are more aware of excessive drinking then they used to be. But a massive 42% of consumers claim binge drinking is part of Britain’s culture, while a quarter of the sample (24%) believe there is nothing wrong with...
“Many students are unable to give evidence of more than a superficial...”
– Gary Marcus - Kluge
“There is value, to be sure, in teaching children the history of their own...”
– Gary Marcus - Kluge
“With a properly nuanced understanding of the balance between the strength and...”
– Gary Marcus - Kluge
Hello tumblr, I've been ignoring you lately.
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept...”
– T. S. Eliot (via littlemiss)
“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where...”
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth (via justbesplendid)
Felix da Housecat - Rocket Ride (Soulwax remix)
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“You don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the...”
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Who wants to be a UK citizen? →
You know, it’s part of your normal routine. You wake up, brush teeth, eat cereal, and normally, at that point, you apply to buy a house in Scotland. Apparently the answer is a solicitor, but that seems more than a little arbitrary. I mean, wouldn’t it be a good idea to check at your local bank that you could afford to buy a house in Scotland? Not to mention looking at the estate agents to see if...
The Facebook “lobster trap” →
The site seemed a place to turn in anxious moments of loneliness or existential vertigo for pseudo-sociality and pseudo-connectedness; it was a place to turn to relieve the sense of being hopelessly mired in ourselves how we are and do some illusory work on our own characters instead by fine-tuning some settings, making some updates, passing some surreptitious judgment on those friends of ours who...
plugged:
Trentemoller - Take Me Into Your Skin
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“If you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you’d be kept...”
– How big is the internet? (via davidkaneda) (via mikehudack) (via moreofthesame) 