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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:21:00 -0700

"You should ease into your running program gradually. In fact, the beginners’ program we..."

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:58:55 -0700

“You should ease into your running program gradually. In fact, the beginners’ program we outline here is less of a running regimen than a walking and jogging program. The idea is to transform you from couch potato to runner, getting you running three miles (or 5K) on a regular basis in just two months.”

- Cool Running :: The Couch-to-5K ® Running Plan

Going to do this! I want to run again! This looks perfect!

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:03:11 -0700

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (via theRSAorg)

landscapelifescape: Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, NY,...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:38:56 -0700

landscapelifescape:

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, NY, USA

East Pier (by Timothy Schenck)

"You said it’s been tough for me, but the truth is it’s not tough for me,” Obama..."

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:25:58 -0700

““You said it’s been tough for me, but the truth is it’s not tough for me,” Obama said. “I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about me. I spend a lot of time worrying about them.””

- President Obama calls African-Americans a ‘mongrel people’ - TheHill.com

"people who have something to do, even something pointless, are happier than people who sit idly"

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:25:13 -0700

“people who have something to do, even something pointless, are happier than people who sit idly”

- To make one happy, make one busy

"What happened is that I saw a movement. I stopped. I was talking to an empty chair, but out of my..."

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:25:45 -0700

“What happened is that I saw a movement. I stopped. I was talking to an empty chair, but out of my peripheral vision I saw something move. I look at Ildefonso and he had just become rigid! He actually sat up in his chair and became rigid. His hands were flat on the table and his eyes were wide. His facial expression was different from any I’d seen. It was just wide with amazement!
And then he started-it was the most emotional moment with another human being, I think, in my life so that even now, after all these years, I’m choking up [pauses]-he started pointing to everything in the room, and this is amazing to me! I’ve thought about this for years. It’s not having language that separates us from other animals, it’s because we love it! All of a sudden, this twenty-seven-year-old man-who, of course, had seen a wall and a door and a window before-started pointing to everything. He pointed to the table. He wanted me to sign table. He wanted the symbol. He wanted the name for table. And he wanted the symbol, the sign, for window.
The amazing thing is that the look on his face was as if he had never seen a window before. The window became a different thing with a symbol attached to it. [emphasis added, GD] But it’s not just a symbol. It’s a shared symbol. He can say “window” to someone else tomorrow who he hasn’t even met yet! And they will know what a window is. There’s something magical that happens between humans and symbols and the sharing of symbols.
That was his first “Aha!” He just went crazy for a few seconds, pointing to everything in the room and signing whatever I signed. Then he collapsed and started crying, and I don’t mean just a few tears. He cradled his head in his arms on the table and the table was shaking loudly from his sobbing. Of course, I don’t know what was in his head, but I’m just guessing he saw what he had missed for twenty-seven years.”

- Life without language « Neuroanthropology

"Police officers know for sure that nobody will hold them accountable if a crime is not solved, but..."

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:02:56 -0700

““Police officers know for sure that nobody will hold them accountable if a crime is not solved, but they will be held accountable if they allow a demonstration to occur,” Mr. Makarov said. “They will not be held accountable for putting an innocent person in jail or beating one on the street, but they will be if somebody takes a stand against the authorities.””

- Videos Rouse Russian Anger Toward Police - NYTimes.com

All Summer - Kid Cudi, Vampire Weekend and Best Coast (Download...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:49:55 -0700

All Summer - Kid Cudi, Vampire Weekend and Best Coast (Download Link) (via xSsj3Sasukex)

NIGHTWAVES – REMIXES (Electro/Dreamwave/Synthpop – US)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:05:21 -0700

NIGHTWAVES – REMIXES (Electro/Dreamwave/Synthpop – US)

SUNBIRDS – RIVER RUN (Alternative/Pop/Rock – UK)

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:42:02 -0700

SUNBIRDS – RIVER RUN (Alternative/Pop/Rock – UK)

Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Announcement (via...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:32:04 -0700

Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Announcement (via modularpeople)

saturday nite with… LYKKE LI

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:29:38 -0700

saturday nite with… LYKKE LI:

For the past two years or so, Swedish songstress Lykke Li has been a mainstay of every electro music blog around the world. Ever since the release of her debut album, Youth Novels, Li’s sweet and sour compositions have been a constant source of inspiration for producers and DJs, with new remixes popping up every second day…

lubita77: #diadoamigo...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:57:19 -0700

lubita77:

#diadoamigo #emo helpmeunderstand:

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Sleeping Fallacies

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:41:56 -0700

You know in the Disney version of the story of Sleeping Beauty, the “evil” witch makes just one person fall asleep forever, but the “good” fairy god mothers put the entire kindgom to sleep (so they wouldn’t learn that their princess had fallen asleep). More than just entire kindgom, also the king and at least some from the neighboring kingdom of Prince Phillip. Something doesn’t add up. I suppose intentions matter. The evil witch Maleficent’s intentions were jealousy and the fairy god mothers were to protect people from pain and sadness but…I think they would have gotten over it in a few days, or somewhat later. There’s also the part about the King ordering the entire village to destroy every spindle to protect the princess. That’s just plain tyranny right there. You couldn’t do that in Walt Disney’s favorite country, the United States, since we have protections against seizure of private property. But yet when you tell a story painted in pretty colors and apply the appropriate melodies at various parts to enhance the story it just all goes down like bitter medicine on a spoonful of sugar. Maleficent is really the only interesting character in that entire story and I would have loved it if she had, in her beautiful dragon form, eaten up the entire tyrannical nobility so that the plebs might have had some freedom, although I doubt she would have been so kind.. Yet the number of people harmed by her compared to the number harmed by the “good” fairy god mothers seems out of sync with the labels applied to each. That’s all.

joshsternberg: Breathtaking photos of bioluminescence (via...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:29:35 -0700

joshsternberg:

Breathtaking photos of bioluminescence (via @stevesilberman)

"If you have a mutt, you can guess her lifespan by considering the approximate breed makeup and size...."

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:22:57 -0700

“If you have a mutt, you can guess her lifespan by considering the approximate breed makeup and size. But no matter how long your “best friend” lives, it probably won’t be long enough.”

- How Old Is Your Dog?

"You feel as if you’re talking into a frozen waffle."

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:52:47 -0700

“You feel as if you’re talking into a frozen waffle.”

- David Pogue on the new Droid X - NYTimes.com

ISO50 Shop - powered by Merchline

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:21:54 -0700

ISO50 Shop - powered by Merchline

ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS on the Behance Network

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:15:31 -0700

ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS on the Behance Network