March 2010
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“[Heath Insurance] This is a rapacious industry that does what it wants. They so...”
– U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller
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February 2010
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Chilean Tsunami Degree of Severity Opinion Poll
If you were at all caught up by the tsunami advisory warnings for Hawaii or other Pacific coastal communities today/yesterday (Saturday, 27 February 2010), I would like to know one thing. What was your believe about the severity of the tsunami prior to the earliest estimated time of arrival at any of the coastal communities you were watching?
Your honest answer is deeply appreciated. Thank you.
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“If I don’t remember it, it didn’t happen.”
– Suzy Sioux Guneyli
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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
1. My Ántonia by Willa Cather
My Ántonia (first published 1918) is considered one of the greatest novels by an American writer, Willa Cather. My Ántonia is clearly an elegy to those families who built new lives west of the Mississippi River and highlights the role of women pioneers in particular but the sheer talent of Willa Cather’s writing quickly strips away the difference in time...
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“As long as there are people that are considered unequal in this country, I think...”
– Meghan McCain (Daughter of Senator John McCain)
“Calculus is the mathematical study of change. Its essence is best captured by...”
– Steven Strogatz, The Calculus of Friendship-p. xii, 1
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I follow some amazing people on Tumblr.
tumblr: you’re my porn ✮ my rock ✮ my super ✮
I don’t know if it’s dumb luck or what, but the people I follow on Tumblr blow me away, all the fucking time. Words fail me while struggle to adequately describe just how different, cool, outrageous, brilliant, bizarre, wicked, deranged and sublimely beautiful they all are… and trust me, that almost never happens to me. If...
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Cyber Security
Most people on the web are clueless to what’s actually happening on the web, and to the web, at any given moment. They only notice something is wrong with they can’t get onto Twitter or Facebook and then they just complaint about it but continue to remain as ignorant as they were before. Most people on the web have no real concept of just how dangerous the web has become.
If this were...
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“If you’re sitting at home in your undershirt, watching TV, worried about...”
– I fucking ♥ Seth MacFarlane
Seth MacFarlane on people who are against gays in the military
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WatchWhen did the America’s Cup move from single hull boats to catamarans?
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A l'oest amb la nit, em surten. Adéu Estan adéu.
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In the world today, words kill souls just as dead as bullets do, And incidental collisions crush hearts without remorse, two by two, Yet amid the hours steeped in travesty, apathy, arrogance, desire and despair, I watched breathless as true love set two earnest hearts white hot and blue all afire.
Time draws nigh, The minutes spent, all but these final few, And soon what had been...
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Suddenly Sterlings
I don’t know exactly where my name, Sterling, falls on the list of popularity but its way down towards the bottom. Every once in awhile I’ll read somewhere about someone else with the name Sterling, which is like a zillion times more often than the only two times I’ve met another Sterling in person. Believe it not, the most common way I come across my name is for someone to...
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“I just get sad when I hear Alexander McQueen’s name now. It feels like...”
– Sterling Kekoa
“The problem with quotes on reddit is that it is hard to verify their...”
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Texting on the Reading Railroad
Really Old Guy in line at Deli: [speaking loudly to the older deli clerk behind the counter] Thanks to TV, cell phones and the Internet, reading has fallen out of favor. People don't read anymore. The kids these days are practically illiterate. That's what is wrong, you know? It's all this technology. It has turned their brains to mush.
Me: [turning to the old man who is still at the counter when I asked for some sliced ham] Aside from Oprah's book club, which I can tell you know a lot about, what do you think they... WE are doing with all that texting, blogging, Twittering...? We're writing and reading, that's what. Not only are we doing lots of reading, but judging by the rate of it, I'm willing to bet we're doing a whole lot more reading than your generation ever did. Brains of mush, is that so? At least we don't think that people are inferior because of their skin color, or that gay marriage will somehow destroy traditional values, which I assume includes bigotry, like the majority of those of your generation do. The way I see it, the only real favor you can do for us at this point is to check into the morgue early. But, noooooooo, that's not likely to happen, is it? You'd rather hang around and bitch about what's wrong with technology, how stupid we are and how you guys are so much better than any of us? Gosh.... how did we get so lucky?
E ‘una bella notte, in silenzio, balsamica. Il profumo della notte che fiorisce Jasmine mi attira nel suo mondo al di là e per i luoghi in cui vivono i sogni. Non parlano una parola. Vieni e seguimi là.
