December 2011
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is the classic move of the raging narcissist to take credit for [an...
– eat, pray, love movie critic
how the dead live →
For food in a world where many walk in hunger For faith in a world where many walk in fear For friends in a world where many walk alone We give thanks this Christmas Day.
Dear Internet,
My mom got me this, so now all I want for Christmas is more articles on spoiler culture.
Internet, as you know I’ve been remarkably well behaved when it comes to not passive aggressively hating on people on Twitter/Tumblr this year (It has Not! Been! Easy!) and only logged into Facebook like five times and got tested (deleted cache/cookies) immediately after each session.
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U.K. Tweeter Goes Postal, Sends Tweets Via Snail... →
rocketboom:
Giles Turnbull (aka @gilest) is a fun loving Brit who recently decided to take his Twitter account offline (literally), and to conduct his twitter correspondence by old-fashioned mail instead. What was the result of this little experiment? “Getting mail was fun again.” Woo-hoo…
“I love you. I still love you. I no longer love you.”
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I, too, have been forever obsessed with douchey... →
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If there are water coolers and if there are offices, one person goes up and...
– David Bianculli, on spoiler-culture. (via nprfreshair)
GUILTY.
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And herein lies the single, central conceit that fuels most of Lynch’s...
– Philadelphia Weekly, March 2001
Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...
– ‘Middlesex’ - Jeffrey Eugenides (via shonafox)
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Before allowing yourself to become mired in the social blunder du jour, remind...
– Guy Tal
How does it feel to not exist?” I had asked the wind. Only then did it occur to me that I no longer cared How the wind felt.
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Torture your data long enough and it'll tell you... →
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Forbes defines "Geeks" - ugh, whatever dweebs. →
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