Mon May 14 2012 21:50 The Third Bit » A Week of Retroactive Accountability:
the comfort we get from the evidence of others
Tue Dec 14 2010 05:46 Forget What Did: Hold the snide.:
and now, a message from Robert Louis Stevenson
Mon May 14 2012 21:50 The Third Bit » A Week of Retroactive Accountability:
the comfort we get from the evidence of others
Tue Dec 14 2010 05:46 Forget What Did: Hold the snide.:
and now, a message from Robert Louis Stevenson
Sat Nov 20 2010 06:03 vito_excalibur | thinking out loud:
"I play best in stolen amounts of time from required interactions, in imitation and opposition."
Wed Oct 13 2010 20:07 Fragments of Evolving Manhood: The Violence In Me 1 | Alas, a blog:
heartwarming depiction of a loving relationship in the end-middle
Tue Aug 17 2010 16:18 On fathers and daughters and illusions and strength:
"... It is full of wonders, even though they are illusory, sometimes because of that...." one of many awesome sentences from this thoughtful essay
Mon Jul 12 2010 15:59 Dr. Rivka - Life and Death Situations:
"My job, when I meet a suicidal person, is uncomplicated. It is my job to stand with the part of the person that wants to live.....Why is it that there is literally no disaster, no tragedy, no collection of problems so severe that our society argues that a person ought to be allowed to die rather than suffer them – EXCEPT for physical degeneration?"
Wed Jun 30 2010 18:59 Yatima » Blog Archive » a chimpanzee manifesto:
You knew I'd bookmark this. Status play, compromise, imagining the possible, the endless joyous struggle.
Mon Apr 05 2010 15:05 http://soundcloud.com/gvsunme/zinc-1:
Zoe Keating's great "In C" from that one Radiolab
Tue Mar 23 2010 05:33 TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect:
via Real Adult Sex. Personal excellence talks louder than bigotry, given a big juicy opportunity.
Tue Mar 23 2010 04:16 Civil Service — Crooked Timber:
a reminder of the awesome Bunnatine Greenhouse
Thu Mar 18 2010 16:25 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/03/12/the_history_of_the_honey_trap:
poor Mata Hari! (her last name had always made me think she was Indian)
Mon Mar 08 2010 13:28 http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm:
via resiak -- on scurvy, how hard science is, and the forward-and-back cycle of knowledge
Fri Mar 05 2010 17:10 Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Michael Whelan, an appreciation:
"I read that book in one day. It wasn’t like anything I’d ever tried reading before. (I had never been introduced to fantasy novels.)... I remember a severe bout of disappointment upon finishing the book because I thought surely there couldn’t be anything else like it in the entire world."
Sun Feb 28 2010 22:21 For The Community (Long) - Personal - The Atlantic:
for the interaction designers in the room. Communities sneak up on you, and they care about convenience and branding
Thu Feb 11 2010 17:50 Mac & Cheese & other lovely memories:
memories of wonder, mastery, calm...
Sun Dec 13 2009 03:18 http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=9247:
Yay Mountain Goats fannishness
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:38 Everyone matters.:
Get out there & tell your story.
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:37 how many roads? « style over substance:
"Tomorrow I will go to the church and the library. And something else will happen, the day after that."
Tue Sep 22 2009 18:09 http://chrisglass.com/journal/images/2006/0820-make-it-work-shirt.gif:
anthemic
Fri Jun 26 2009 12:31 The strange nakedness of Mark Sanford | Salon :
captures some of my feelings about the guy
Mon Jun 22 2009 22:55 Robotic Tendencies » On contributing to Gaim…:
what not to do as a FLOSS maintainer
Fri Jun 19 2009 22:48 Calvin & Hobbes fanfic (Teen Susie & Calvin slash):
via vito_excalibur, and SO INCREDIBLY GOOD. Moving and sexy and aching.
Thu Jun 11 2009 19:15 Scattershot, Desperate, and Sleazy | n+1:
on craiglist you speak desire; on nerve you say who you are
Tue Jun 02 2009 20:17 pfenixwings: Let me be really clear.:
interesting articulation: "I have this marvelous experience, this huge beautiful easy experience... and then I have to find a way to integrate its memory and its absence in my life, hopefully without falling into my patterns of disengagement and stoicism."
Mon May 25 2009 22:45 Silence and the Word - Mohanraj:
Such a good piece
Thu May 14 2009 06:46 mumbling_sage: Hurt, Angry, and Afraid:
ten years younger
Sun May 03 2009 19:04 YouTube - Joss Whedon singing DVD commentary to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog:
Alternate lyrics!
Mon Apr 20 2009 22:24 EST http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/20/What-Makes-the-United-States-Special/:
jesus yes
Sat Apr 18 2009 16:37 EST FutureMe.org: Gudday from a younger you:
I like how he refers to past & future selves together as "us"
Wed Apr 08 2009 08:23 EST yatima: fell off:
"...feeling the years and years of riding behind me - the teenage bolting around like a lunatic and learning how to land on my feet, the years in my twenties.... As if those years weren't wasted after all; as if all is not lost." see: me & customer service
Wed Mar 25 2009 06:42 EST Forever's Not So Long:
unexpectedly touching and memorable
Tue Mar 24 2009 10:14 EST Waiter Rant » Blog Archive » Fear and Loneliness in Las Vegas:
the emotional intelligence to self-interrogate after strong or inappropriate feelings or behavior
Tue Mar 17 2009 10:05 EST The importance of stupidity in scientific research -- Schwartz 121 (11): 1771 -- Journal of Cell Science:
Do would-be scientists get hung up more on envying their peers' skills/knowledge, or on the massive pile of ignorance we all share?
Mon Mar 16 2009 14:20 EST signs of [crazy]: an asl interpretation - Truveo Video Search:
tremendous, artful, "but is it fair use?" via von Lohmann
Sun Mar 15 2009 17:48 EST http://www.ftrain.com/baltimore_conversion.html:
in 2003 this piece moved me to tears and fanmail
Wed Feb 25 2009 23:57 EST Saturday's walk:
while listening to Moxy Fruvous's "you can't be too careful."
Fri Feb 13 2009 11:35 EST Susan Senator: Susan's Blog: Suffering From Dimension:
on liminality, going through an experience and making it 3D
Tue Feb 10 2009 10:07 EST YouTube - The "Oasis" Music Video - From "Who Killed Amanda Palmer":
So this is what the Dresden Dolls frontwoman is up to now. What a song.
Thu Jan 01 2009 15:41 EST Palonis, Estelle V. English (ca 8-45) [13 l.] [re language problems]:
"Particularly in the Social Sciences, it was difficult to counteract the obvious fact that we had not abided by the rules of the game in our treatment of the Nisei."
Fri Dec 19 2008 10:34 EST xkcd - A Webcomic - 11th Grade:
PAINFULLY true? including the title tag?! I comfort myself with knowing that I actually did learn a fair amount in the social and hard sciences that formed a foundation for later importance
Sun Dec 07 2008 03:20 EST http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/04/studying-the-emotion.html:
I have been lucky enough to enjoy admiration, awe, and elevation several times in my adulthood. Connected to Bolt-Taylor's right-brained thinking?
Sun Dec 07 2008 03:19 EST http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Tryst_with_Destiny:
worth considering: what is the Indian idea, akin to the American idea?
Sun Dec 07 2008 03:18 EST http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Keep_Moving_From_This_Mountain:
MLK, Kerala, and untouchables
Sun Dec 07 2008 03:17 EST Real Live Preacher:
Useful perspective
Tue Oct 28 2008 09:01 EST http://www.timwu.org/log/archives/313:
how many of the things you do are, in fact, exactly this category?
Mon Oct 27 2008 08:32 EST Real Live Preacher:
audience and voice
Wed Oct 22 2008 08:48 EST Muslim McCain Fans Confront Intolerance At Rally | American News Project:
Makes me glad that the Republican Party has at least a little diversity to help moderate the worst elements...
Tue Oct 07 2008 12:36 EST http://www.sunpig.com/martin/archives/2008/08/03/1-year-on.html:
it pays to recognize when you're at a local maximum, and JUMP
Sun Oct 05 2008 01:39 EST Immigrants, natives need to keep discovering America | Oakland Tribune | Find Articles at BNET:
Not bad, and apropos for election time
Sat Oct 04 2008 18:47 EST DonorsChoose.org: Help Keep the School Newspaper in Print:
Leonard, can we give?
Mon Sep 29 2008 09:30 EST Cleaty: War, What Is It Good For?:
The war comes home
Tue Sep 23 2008 10:22 EST Donald F.B. Jameson; Handled Russian Defectors for CIA - washingtonpost.com:
"Just put down Golitsin, it might be right" - Russian history prof Reginald Zelnik
Sat Sep 20 2008 08:38 EST ~stevenf: Aerophobe:
Archived copy of Steven Frank on overcoming phobia
Mon Sep 01 2008 19:23 EST Real Live Preacher:
This is WHY I made the poignant tag
Mon Aug 18 2008 16:26 EST twelve.jpg - Image - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting:
love the face in the last panel
Sun Aug 17 2008 21:50 EST Making Light: Gnomic Verses:
check out der Plotkin
Thu Aug 14 2008 14:08 EST Last Plane to Jakarta | Thirty Short Poems About My Favorite Black Metal Band:
the value of cherishing
Wed Aug 06 2008 08:26 EST Tuition paid for valedictorian in legal limbo:
"Sometimes you have to put your money where your mouth is"
Sat Jul 26 2008 10:52 EST http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/07/the-balcony-is-closed.html:
awww. And he links to that outtakes video! Check the comments; thousands of people learned about movies and intelligent argument from their show
Tue Jul 08 2008 08:21 EST The challenge is in the bones | Oakland Tribune | Find Articles at BNET:
ARGH that second paragraph. Count the SAT words. And I need to check on that copyright data...
Sun Jun 22 2008 10:31 EST
Rick Veitch » Army@Love: Art Of War #2:
punch in the gut
Wed Jun 18 2008 08:59 EST Loving Day: Celebrate the Legalization of Interracial Couples:
Need to check out for more AWWW stories
Mon Jun 16 2008 07:46 EST How Angel of Sichuan Saved School in Quake - NYTimes.com:
“If I knew there was a hidden danger, and I didn’t do anything about it, then I would be the one responsible,” he said.
Sat Apr 26 2008 20:15 EST Real Live Preacher:
"Words are rusty, jagged, pig-iron tongs fumbling for purchase in the liquid silk of her soul."
Mon Apr 07 2008 15:07 EST We're haunted by an abortion from 10 years ago - Salon.com:
one of the good Cary Tennises from years back
Wed Apr 02 2008 14:09 EST
This American Life
:
the TAL I love about what kids wrongly believe and then take into adulthood
Wed Mar 05 2008 09:08 EST This should scare me more than it does. « By Erin Ptah:
Erin Ptah, amazing author, tries to decrypt her own repressed memories.
Sat Feb 23 2008 06:54 EST Brutal Women: Bowling, Beer, & Brutal Women:
"Now I have no idea what I want or who I am, because all I want to do is swill whiskey and fuck the night away and chain smoke and get on a plane to Marrakech... and then I realize I already did that, and it brought me here. "
Mon Jan 28 2008 12:14 EST Luminous Prose:
glad Frances read it, and I hel_ed, before she died
Sat Dec 29 2007 10:00 EST Wax Banks: The magic of the silver screen, holiday edition.:
Awwww! Thanks! I like you too, readers!
Fri Dec 28 2007 20:01 EST Miracles -
10 Zen Monkeys:
Self-promote, steal ideas, don't lie, hate enemies but love rivals, and do less.
Tue Dec 25 2007 07:56 EST reddit.com: Reddit: Even though we don't get along all the time... Merry Christmas. May your day be what you hope it to be and drink one for your friends here.:
aww
Sat Dec 22 2007 07:25 EST A Softer World: 238:
another canonical ASW
Sat Dec 22 2007 07:25 EST A Softer World: 251:
one of the canonical ASWs?
Wed Dec 19 2007 09:16 EST Ancrene Wisse - The Singularity:
via:yatima. The unimaginable.
Thu Dec 13 2007 14:10 EST
Unshelved comic strip archive
:
"if you wait long enough, you always see the beginning of the end"
Wed Dec 12 2007 10:27 EST Discworld News PJSM Prints:
Curse curse curse, Pratchett has -ing Alzheimer's. At least it's been caught early and they can medicate.
Sun Dec 09 2007 07:32 EST Publish and Perish - Avi Klein:
LaRouche & blogging -- match made in heaven & prevented on this foul earth
Fri Dec 07 2007 13:59 EST
Unshelved comic strip archive
:
Did my dad call my mind and temper childish or childlike?
Tue Dec 04 2007 10:33 EST Long Now: Views: Essays:
FINALLY I grok Feynman adoration! His autobiographies only repelled me. "The act of discovery was not complete for him until he had taught it to someone else."
Mon Nov 12 2007 14:50 EST reseda_ptah: Fake News: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (5):
"He's fragile and plagued by self-doubt. He always tries to do his best." I'd missed those.
Sat Nov 10 2007 07:30 EST reddit.com: mexicodoug & atomicthumbs:
An attempt at a joke that goes wrong, but leads to connecting anew
Sat Nov 10 2007 06:53 EST Still, Pissed At The National Gallery -- Daddy Types:
What kind of terrible docent tells kids that authority figures decide what's art and you just have to deal with it? Gah!
Sun Nov 04 2007 13:49 EST Antony Flew - Atheism - God - Books - Authors and Writers - New York Times:
A reputation made at 27 and unmade, or remade, at 84; the dangers of senescence; dark currents in the community of discourse.
Tue Oct 30 2007 18:03 EST "Nothing Better" by tyler page :
I love this chapter
Sat Oct 27 2007 18:27 EST Lorem Ipsum: Y: First issue free online:
new excuse to foist it on lots of people
Thu Oct 25 2007 09:32 EST Husband head in wife’s hand - The Telegraph:
terrible story about the costs of making your family migrate
Thu Oct 25 2007 09:31 EST Jobs Abroad Support 'Model' State in India - New York Times:
terrible story about the costs of not letting your family migrate
Fri Oct 19 2007 20:09 EST Buddhist Studies - Primary Level: Guided Meditations with Instruction.:
to try
Sat Oct 06 2007 02:18 EST Day 4: Lillian [dive into mark]:
OK, this makes me sniffle and want to improve the accessibility of my blog
Thu Oct 04 2007 23:21 EST Brutal Women: Day By Day:
Maybe ambition - for some - starts not in childhood dreams, but in fear of death and in joyfully filling the days left
Tue Oct 02 2007 14:36 EST Bitch Ph.D.: Pseudonymous Kid notices women's magazines:
THANK GOD some parents are talking to their kids about the beauty industry.
Thu Sep 20 2007 13:45 EST Wockner: Republican San Diego mayor embraces same-sex marriage, says daughter is a lesbian:
you can see in the video that he's choking back tears
Sun Sep 16 2007 15:05 EST Matthew Yglesias (May 21, 2007) - The Ultimate Nineties Alt-Rock Playlist (Culture) :
Hey, friends of mine with 90-gig music collections. Let's do this.
Sat Sep 15 2007 01:51 EST Po Bronson on Silicon Valley Headhunters:
"..search my name on Nexis, and you'll turn up nothing. Did I ever get credit? It's unethical." I reminded him that I couldn't search his name on Nexis because he wouldn't tell me his name.
Sat Sep 01 2007 21:34 EST "Impossible Dreams":
This year's Hugo winner made me cry
Sun Aug 26 2007 17:57 EST The world is too much with us:
Taste of Anacrusis. I wish Mel had kept this up.
Wed Jul 04 2007 05:19 PST Man Who Thought He Was On Date Actually Just At Work-Related Get-Together | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:
One of the more touching, sympathy-inducing Area Man articles
Fri Jun 29 2007 19:21 PST Vitanuova for 2002 June 26:
On the danger of loving institutions -- cf.The Wire
Tue Jun 26 2007 06:45 PST http://mutales.livejournal.com/7052.html:
NSFW. "It requires intelligence to have sex for any reason other than joy... or even worse, without joy." Ouch.
Tue Jun 26 2007 06:42 PST Play chess in the voice God gave you (MemeMachineGo!):
Once you grok how far you have to go, what do you do?
Mon Jun 04 2007 15:36 PST US attorney Stanley Alpert on how he survived after being kidnapped at gunpoint | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited:
Oh Lord that's scary. I hope I never look like an easy, lucrative catch for kidnappers.
Thu May 31 2007 16:47 PST Mister Rogers might've even been a nicer person than you thought (reddit.com) :
Mr. Rogers makes Redditors (and me) cry at work!
Tue May 29 2007 14:54 PST The Strokes - You Only Live Once Video - The Strokes Videos on IMEEM:
via Daring Fireball. This is, belatedly, the epic for which "Last Transmission From Starbase XY003" is the parody. Awesome.
Tue May 29 2007 09:44 PST Crooked Timber » » Sue Gerhardt on Why Love Matters (Daycare Revisited):
Reminding me about the hard choices ahead re: parenting and career
Fri May 25 2007 14:08 PST "Nothing Better" by tyler page :
closely observed, lovely in-progress graphic novel (some NSFW)
Fri May 25 2007 09:04 PST davidbau.com: Haaarg, world!:
More peer pressure from hacker dads
Sat May 12 2007 09:39 PST Student, 18, is death investigator | IndyStar.com :
Good job, Amanda Barnett! Youngest coroner in IN history. CSI : forensics :: Star Trek : engineering?
Sat May 12 2007 07:48 PST Matthew Yglesias:
impetus for change in my life and reduction in insecurities: do I really want to be like THOSE people?
Thu May 10 2007 18:35 PST http://www.mikedaisey.com/2007/05/blackberry.sht:
"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."
Wed May 09 2007 06:31 PST :: rogerebert.com :: Commentary :: A bouquet arrives... (xhtml):
Rob Schneider makes a touching gesture! Restores my faith in humanity!
Thu May 03 2007 11:16 PST Wondermark by David Malki ! - 285: In which Everyone is a Failure:
akin to the Dino Comix near our door
Sun Apr 22 2007 06:41 PST ~stevenf: Aerophobe:
"If it's affecting your life, if it's preventing you from doing things you would otherwise do, get help. Seriously. Realize that it's bigger than you, or you'd have gotten over it by now."
Sun Apr 22 2007 06:37 PST User interface and user education:
the significance of literacy and comp literacy; "our inability to articulate the standards for these judgments... was no evidence that the judgments were impossible"
Thu Apr 12 2007 14:48 PST Letters: Help! I'm avoiding and hiding again! - Salon:
just because you succeed doesn't mean you are your parents
Wed Apr 11 2007 06:37 PST slacktivist: All you need is:
Western Civ's advice for Leonard and me as our marriage approaches the 1-year mark
Mon Apr 09 2007 10:34 PST Bread and Circuits » Blog Archive » Open Source, pre-1945:
"I was finally able to tell [my grandmother] what I do: I take things that were never meant to go together and work with them until they fit, patiently refusing to give up...."
Sat Apr 07 2007 14:33 PST Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com:
How many world-class musicians do we just pass by in the subway? Joshua Bell and Gene Weingarten find out.
Fri Mar 30 2007 04:44 PST Everything Good is Bad For You (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought):
How can it be that Aaron Swartz has written something that I 85% agree with?!?
Tue Mar 20 2007 06:26 PST Date in jail for drugging beer / Quick-thinking S.F. pair nail man slipping his companion a mickey:
The sad/hilarious bit is where the guy tries it *twice*
Sat Feb 24 2007 17:23 PST Roger Federer as Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times:
via Eric; includes 3 pages of footnotes
Tue Feb 20 2007 15:01 PST Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story - Google Video:
EFF NYC meetup once featured this vid
Wed Feb 07 2007 11:26 PST Coach Fitz's Management Theory:
Michael Lewis on his high school baseball coach, who taught him gumption
Fri Feb 02 2007 08:39 PST YouTube - OK Go - Here It Goes Again Granbury High School:
Sumana says: I actually cried with happiness at seeing this. It's PERFECT. Via The Morning News.
Fri Feb 02 2007 07:21 PST Shark Tank: Which part of "don't worry" isn't clear? - Computerworld Blogs:
liferay, anyone?
Sun Jan 28 2007 08:16 PST defective yeti: Plugapalooza: Cringe:
SO TRUE that we just want someone to pay attention
Mon Jan 15 2007 19:01 PST Crooked Timber » » Living With Darwin by Philip Kitcher:
Dawkins/Time Lord joke, plus religion is a crutch but we're all cripples
Fri Jan 12 2007 16:06 PST Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs:
apple is dead or will be soon, says Jobs in 1995
Thu Jan 04 2007 12:38 PST Mixing Memory: Gender, Math, Stereotype Threat, and Testosterone:
one result: if you think you'll do badly because of stereotype activation, you're more likely to handicap yourself via procrastination, etc.
Fri Dec 29 2006 18:53 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_and_to_the_left:
Also, a Defective Yeti post from years ago
Wed Dec 27 2006 11:10 PST best of craigslist : To the black sheep, the outcasts, the lonely...:
in case you're feeling hopeless
Fri Dec 15 2006 04:50 PST From Head Scarf to Army Cap, Making a New Life - New York Times:
You pass amazingly strong people in the street every day and never know it
Mon Dec 04 2006 19:35 PST “Every once in a while, take your left foot and bring it behind your right one”: How Hugo learned to dance at Hugo Schwyzer:
Dominic and the girl in the grey sweater
Tue Nov 07 2006 11:16 PST A 'Beautiful Day' in a Republican Town - New York Times:
A single day for a single volunteer, with an election and a birthday cake.
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