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therealkatiewest: “Let me give you some advice: Try to approach...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:37:21 -0500

“Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you’ll be surprised at what’s really all around you.”
— Charles de Lint (Someplace to Be Flying)

OMG!

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:34:38 -0500

OMG!

tanya77: YSL/Titanic/Patti Smith Man’s fears...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:45:15 -0500

tanya77:

YSL/Titanic/Patti Smith Man’s fears realized. (via)

I’m on the right track. Or is it the wrong one?

"In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self."

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:40:07 -0500

“In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”

- Marcel Proust, novelist (1871-1922) (via lyssahumana)

"If you do something that you’re proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty..."

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:17:19 -0500

“If you do something that you’re proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn’t there before – you can’t beat that.”

- Teller (of Penn and Teller) (via patrickrhone)

lyssahumana: somniis: bleep-bloop: fuckyeahjustintr: ianlikes...

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:00:15 -0500

lyssahumana:

somniis:

bleep-bloop:

fuckyeahjustintr:

ianlikes:

Peanuts @ 11th Jan, 1960.

masomenso: snailsleftslime:(via fillinthespaces)

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:52:18 -0500

masomenso:

snailsleftslime:(via fillinthespaces)

freshprince: Bruce Lee.

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:59:01 -0500

freshprince:

Bruce Lee.

austinkleon: Richard Feynman on “the difference between knowing...

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:21:52 -0500

austinkleon:

Richard Feynman on “the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something”

Richard Feynman talking about trees.

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:09:55 -0500

Richard Feynman talking about trees.

heyamberrae: (via bekahkall) love this.

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:23:50 -0500

heyamberrae:

(via bekahkall)

love this.

"Driven problem solvers: PayPal had a strong bias toward hiring (and promoting / encouraging, as..."

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:55:44 -0500

““Driven problem solvers: PayPal had a strong bias toward hiring (and promoting / encouraging, as Keith mentions) smart, driven problem solvers, rather than subject matter experts. Very few of the top performers at the company had any prior experience with payments, and many of the best employees had little or no prior background building Internet products. I worked on the fraud analytics team at PayPal, and most of our best people had never before done anything related to fraud detection. If he’d approached things “traditionally”, Max would have gone out and hired people who had been building logistic regression models for banks for 20 years but never innovated, and fraud losses would likely have swallowed the company.” (by Mike Greenfield, former Sr. Fraud R&D Scientist of Paypal)”

- Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders

youmightfindyourself: This is Carl Sagan reading from his book,...

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:20:00 -0500

youmightfindyourself:

This is Carl Sagan reading from his book, “The Pale Blue Dot”. Carl Sagan was the most uncommon of scientists. Yes, he was smart. Accessible. And even popular.

But more than anything else, he was inspiring.

(via gianvalentini)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:24:32 -0500

(via gianvalentini)

"It is only in our decisions that we are important. - Jean-Paul Sartre"

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:54:34 -0500

“It is only in our decisions that we are important. - Jean-Paul Sartre”

- (via simplespace)

(via gianvalentini)

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:24:37 -0500

(via gianvalentini)

mikehudack: abcsoupdot: sexartandpolitics: Just a few hours...

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:34:55 -0500

mikehudack:

abcsoupdot:

sexartandpolitics:

Just a few hours before the 1991 Gulf war ceasefire, photographer Ken Jarecke was heading back to Kuwait from Southern Iraq. Jarecke came across a single truck burnt out from airstrike in the middle of a highway. Jarecke told his military escort that “If I don’t make pictures like this, people like my mother will think what they see in war is what they see in movies”, and went over to the burnt tank and took the above photo. At that time, it was an image challenged the prevailing notion that the ‘clinical’ attack avoided ‘collateral damage’.

Dead Iraqi Soldier « Iconic Photos

Sorry to make you uncomfortable, but this is important.

"Anyway, as you might have noticed there’s a brand new series of TopGear starting this Sunday on BBC2..."

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:03:47 -0500

“Anyway, as you might have noticed there’s a brand new series of TopGear starting this Sunday on BBC2 at 8pm if you’re in Britain, or a few minutes after 9pm UK time if you’re one of those people abroad who cheekily downloads the show off some illegal BitTorrent website. Don’t look guilty and fiddle nervously with your mouse cable. We know what you’re up to…”

- Top Gear Script Editor Richard Porter (via caseyliss)

"The best way to break up with a girl is like I’m taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower."

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:36:01 -0500

“The best way to break up with a girl is like I’m taking off a band-aid. Slowly and in the shower.”

- Anthony Jeselnik (via simko)

"If Americans ever really get hold of football (soccer) and figure it out, they’ll just destroy..."

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:40:04 -0500

“If Americans ever really get hold of football (soccer) and figure it out, they’ll just destroy everyone. Because that’s what you do, isn’t it? You’re the best in everything if you care about it.”

- An Irishman at a bar last night (via clarityunfiltered) (via section9) (via mikehudack)

I think that’s true. Hopefully we, mexicans, could do the same in football and in a lot of more important things.