February 2012
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“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”
– George Bernard Shaw (via)
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981 movies disappearing from Netflix at the end of... →
(aka “Starz is taking their ball and going home”)
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7 Truths About Writers →
3. We are scared and doubt ourselves
We want people to read our words but at the same time,
we fear criticism and negative reaction. We compare ourselves
to others and we often come up short. We doubt that we are
original or that people will even want to read our words. We
worry that we have opened ourselves up too much to the
world, and then we fret because we haven’t been...
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“xeno: n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged...”
– The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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January 2012
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Underworld: Awakening is a solid actioner & worthy addition to the series. It moves so briskly the run time doesn’t feel like 88min. 4/5
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November 2011
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“Easy reading is damn hard writing”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via ninagarcia)
September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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“Where in the World Is Carmen...
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Bored People Quit →
Much has been written about employee motivation and retention.
It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and
retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily
necessity of keeping your team professionally content because
they’ve either never done the work or have forgotten how it’s
done. These are the people who show up when your...
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June 2011
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“My wife is in grad school for audiology right now. She told me a story about a...”
– Reddit user secretcurse
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Word of the day: demonym
A demonym, also referred to as a gentilic, is a name for a resident
of a locality. A demonym is usually — though not
always — derived from the name of the locality; thus,
in English, the demonym for the people of Italy is Italian, though the
one used for the people of the Netherlands is Dutch.
More to read (and plenty of examples) over at the Wikipedia entry.
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Learn Your Damn Homophones →
Here’s a nice snarky/funny/rude link to send to your online pals who still can’t manage to distinguish correctly between it’s and its.
I’m tired of this shit.
It’s about time that everyone learned their damn homophones.
If you slept your way through the fourth grade or just skipped
all of the grammar lectures because you were too busy sucking
off that...
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“Midnight in Paris” is a delightful tale of Paris, the artist’s soul, and nostalgia. Nice to see Woody Allen bringing his A-game again. 5/5
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“The New York State Legislature gave final approval late Friday to a bill...”
– Mark Evanier
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Do I Have a Moment for the Environment? No. →
EDW Lynch:
I live in a walkable San Francisco shopping
district that has the extraordinary misfortune of being
the prime hunting grounds of the face-to-face street
fundraiser. I prefer the British slang, however:
charity mugger or “chugger.” A chugger is a fresh-faced
20something who waves and shouts
at you like a long lost friend, and then demands you
give money to...
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Mutha'uckas (song shuffle meme)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Put your music player on shuffle.
Press forward for each question.
Use the title song as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense.
No cheating!
How do you feel today? “Here It Goes Again” by OK Go
What’s your outlook on life? “Grayscale” by Keiko Takamura and the Shebangs
What does your family think of you?...
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