February 2012
2 posts
“The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and...”
– Why Not Be Jubilant? - Lapham’s Quarterly
From a beautiful letter to Jackson Pollack from his dad.
“I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a...”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg (via bostonreview)
Ginsburg’s comment is important. I was recently privileged to a conversation about the differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution while smoking shisha in a cafe just off Tahrir Square. The rest of the world cares about this...
December 2011
8 posts
“Sideways a mountain range, vertically a peak.
Far-near, soaring-crouching,...”
– Clash of Civilizations: The Confusion of Being a Chinese Student in America - Helen Gao - International - The Atlantic
From a very interesting article on the experience of Chinese students studying at American universities. Perspective is tough sometimes.
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have...”
– T.S. Eliot
“I am speaking on behalf of the United States of America because my negotiators...”
– U.S. Climate Envoy, Todd Stern, Seems to Shift Stance on New Talks - NYTimes.com
That’s not in the Constitution!
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
8 posts
“Had [Jeff] Jarvis written his [most recent] book as self-parody—as a cunning...”
– The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic
Ya burnt!
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“Love is everywhere, even in refugee camps. People think that refugees are too...”
– Life in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp, from PRI’s The World
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September 2011
6 posts
4 tags
4 tags
“labor omnia vicit improbus, et duris urgens in rebus egestas
Relentless work...”
–
Work Ethic — Lapham’s Quarterly
-Virgil
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“raise awareness” : no measurable outcome
“scale-up” : It’s time for...”
– The AidSpeak Dictionary « William Easterly
Crowdsourced Aid-Speak Dictionary. Heh.
August 2011
3 posts
“The root cause of the crisis is not to be found in hedge funds and bankers who...”
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The World Bank’s lead research economist Branko Milanovic on how global inequality caused the global crisis (h/t Duncan Green).
(via aidwatch)
May 2011
7 posts
“Binney, for his part, believes that the agency now stores copies of all e-mails...”
– Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake : The New Yorker
Interesting read…
Watchpulitzercenter:
NewsHour or Family Guy?
Iron Man 2 or Waiting for Superman?
We constantly make choices between consuming information junk food versus information veggies. Google, Yahoo! News and Facebook keep track of those choices and alter our search results accordingly based on what they think you’ll click on. Too many veggies? Too much junk food? Sometimes, an algorithm based on your...
“I understand the shift toward search optimization. But I think we’re...”
– ‘Google Doesn’t Laugh’: Saving Witty Headlines in the Age of SEO - David Wheeler - Technology - The Atlantic
“Lake Calhoun is named after John. C. Calhoun, a former U.S. Senator from South...”
– (via freshmn)
I’ve thought about this idea, and I kind of love it.
April 2011
2 posts
Names of People Who Were Invited to the Royal...
bennettmadison:
zaragolden:
Matita Glassborow Millie Pilkington Jeanette Cadet Rupert Finch Willem Marx Tallulah Goldsmith Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Cathorpe Arabella Musgrave Jecca Craig Davina Duckworth-Chad Rose Farquhar Natalie Hicks-Lobbecke Tiggy Pettifer (formerly Legge-Bourke) Shan Legge-Bourke Alicia Fox-Pitt Meghann Gunderman Annabel Ballin Alasdair...
March 2011
1 post
“Our only foreign expert is Google Earth.”
– A Libyan air force pilot who defected to the rebels, as told to NPR’s Eric Westervelt.
February 2011
4 posts
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
5 posts
