December 2010
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947 (via mlq3)
Patty Griffin - “We Shall Be Reunited”...
“Patterns establish reality, so break all patterns. Do it one way today, and...”
– Alexander Shulgin (TiHKAL: 334-335)
“The truth is always being lived without words, so take no exception with how...”
– Matt Kahn (via aristela)
And Tumblr, of course, is shifting patterns of glowing pixels on a screen.
“Being mindfully aware in and out of meditation is the practice that brings...”
– Ayya Khema, from her book Be an Insland. Taken from today’s post at Mind Deep, a mindfulness practice blog (via crashinglybeautiful)
I hope y’all know how bitterly difficult this is.
“The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against...”
– David Foster Wallace
The first sentence of this quote gets quoted/posted a lot online, but the rest of it is equally - if not more - important to read. (via sometimesagreatnotion)
arsvitaest: Entrance →
arsvitaest:
By Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Dana Gioia
Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight, out of the room that lets you feel secure. Infinity is open to your sight. Whoever you are. With eyes that have forgotten how to see from viewing things already too well-known, lift up into the dark a huge, black tree and put it in the heavens: tall, alone. And you have made the world and...
TRIONFI
yama-bato:
Petrarch’s Triumphs. All of the triumphs are here, in Italian and now the compelte English translations as well.
http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/trionfi.html
A True Martyr - Inside Islam →
almas88:
According to the New York Times, Officer Bilal Ali Muhammad was patrolling near a Muharram procession when he spotted a suspicious lone man approaching the crowd with his hand concealed in his pocket. When the man refused to answer questions, Officer Muhammad forcefully opened the jacket and found an explosive belt strapped to the man’s chest. Officer Muhammad wrapped his arms ...
Watchcathartesaura:
the beauty, freedom and strength in vulnerability
“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”
– Basho (via yama-bato)
“I’ve changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along...”
– Robinson Jeffers (via mlq3)
Haiti: Where the Aid System has Failed to Stop...
doctorswithoutborders:
Today, the Guardian published an op-ed by MSF International President: “Haiti should be an unlikely backdrop for the latest failure of the humanitarian relief system. The country is small and accessible and, following last January’s earthquake, it hosts one of the largest and best-funded international aid deployments in the world. Why then, have at least 2,500 people died...
WatchAriel’s New Zealand Pummelvision
Delta Foxtrot: Lost →
deltafoxtrot:
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you…
“Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where...”
– Chris Hedges
vruz: who, for the importance of this brief piece, should be awarded the Pulitzer again, if the said prize wasn’t an already co-opted institution of the mainstream media. (via vruz)
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Emergency Food: Millions of Americans Are Heading... →
The good news is there’s no reason anyone should ever starve to death in America. The bad news is more and more working Americans, many earning what were once middle class incomes, are spending their time and scarce money to find their next meal.
“Vision – A candle flame seen at 30 miles on a dark, clear night
Hearing – The...”
– Perceptual psychologists have long been interested in limen – the threshold at which a stimulus becomes detectable. The following limen for the different senses, expressed in everyday terms rather than in terms of physical quantities, have a certain poetry to them. Galanter, E. (1962)....
WatchMichael Jackson sings “You Can’t Win” in The Wiz
Can’t explain it, but I love this scene.
Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux →
Eliminating dopamine turns fruit flies into... →
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that seems to have been around from about the time of the very first nerves. Every animal we’ve looked at, including some that branched off prior to the Cambrian, seems to express the dopamine signaling machinery in its nerves. So, you might expect that eliminating dopamine entirely would be a fatal step. But, at least when it comes to everyone’s favorite...