January 2009
137 posts
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know...”
– Oscar Wilde (via cherrylolita)
fun with pie charts
robot-heart:
Fun with Pie Charts
(via Christina, who is awesome.)
“Infographics are especially useful for PR practitioners. When incorporated into...”
– FUNNEL INCORPORATED | PR
so spot on.
cherrylolita:
skysignal:
CAPRICORN The Go-Getter (Dec 22 - Jan 19) Patient and wise. Practical and rigid. Ambitious. Tends to be Good-looking. Humorous and funny. Can be a bit shy and reserved. Often pessimistic. Capricorns tend to act before they think and can be Unfriendly at times. Hold grudges. Like competition. Get what they want. AQUARIUS - The Sweetheart (Jan 20 - Feb 18) Optimistic and...
“The MySpace page, with its shrieking typography and clamorous imagery, has...”
– The End of Solitude ChronicleReview.com (via somethingchanged)
1000 books: Love
fantasyaction:
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plainoljane:
Love
Le Grand Meaulnes by Henri Alain-Fournier Dom Casmurro Joaquim by Maria Machado de Assis Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen Persuasion by Jane Austen Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Nightwood by Djuna Barnes The Garden...
Books on Irrational Decision-Making - WSJ.com →
Gwyneth and Madonna's book recommendations
From Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-newsletter ‘Goop’
I feel a bit swallowed up in January, the days are so short, the sky is so close and gray. The best way to escape (not to mention the least expensive, most hassle-free way) is to curl up by the fire with an amazing, transportive novel. This week I have asked a couple of my best and most literary-minded girlfriends to share their top...
“The neat thing about the online world is that you are judged almost entirely by...”
– Seth’s Blog: Who you are and what you do (via somethingchanged)
“The true reason [we read books] remains the inscrutable one - we get pleasure...”
– Virginia Woolf on her love of reading | Books | The Guardian (via buyhercandy) (via tarts) (via unicornology)
100 Best First Lines from Novels →
jessicachu: (via expose)
Old, classic board games
4. The Game of Life. If you can believe it, Milton Bradley himself created The Game of Life way back in 1861. Now, the game is more than a little preachy — I mean, if you don’t go to college, have lots of kids, and drive around in your station wagon buying insurance and suing for damages, then you probably won’t be able to end up a millionaire and buy that beautiful, white plastic mansion at the...
“How was it that in the weeks since her marriage Dorothea had not distinctly...”
– Middlemarch, George Eliot
Book review: Bright Young People
A 1920s party scene was frivolous, yes, but its cultural influence was not
While arguing for the importance of the bright-young-people moment to future eminences of British arts and letters, Mr. Taylor also notes how little was achieved by many promising members of the set. One chapter is titled “The Books Brian Howard Never Wrote,” a devastating judgment on a flamboyant figure who...
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker (1893-1967).
(via donotdisturb)
Secrets Steve Jobs Kept From Me
When it comes to marketing, Apple’s mysteriousness has been nothing short of brilliant, helping the company build buzz and stoke curiosity among its cultish fans. But now, as questions emerge about Apple’s disclosure of its CEO’s health problems, that culture of secrecy is becoming the company’s biggest...
Rebranding Fish
PETA has launched a new campaign in an attempt to make fish more adorable. They have renamed the “FISH” to a “SEA KITTEN”. The campaign comes with a colorful, interactive web site geared towards parents and their children. You can even read sea kitten bedtime stories and a design-your-own sea kitten. We are all for the greater good, but isn’t this just a waste of time and money.
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How novels help drive social evolution - New...
Boehm and Carroll believe novels have the same effect as the cautionary tales told in older societies. “Just as hunter-gatherers talk of cheating and bullying as a way of staying keyed to the goal that the bad guys must not win, novels key us to the same issues,” says Boehm. “They have a function that continues to contribute to the quality and structure of group...
Aid worker diary - BBC →
How the city hurts your brain - Boston Globe
The reason such seemingly trivial mental tasks leave us depleted is that they exploit one of the crucial weak spots of the brain. A city is so overstuffed with stimuli that we need to constantly redirect our attention so that we aren’t distracted by irrelevant things, like a flashing neon sign or the cellphone conversation of a nearby passenger on the bus. This sort of controlled perception...