January 2010
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I find that if I’m working on something, and I just can’t get it to work, the best think I can do is just send it to someone. Nine times out of ten they don’t even have to say anything about it, as soon as I send it off something clicks and I go “Aahh, never mind! I figured it out!”
Probably because I shift myself out of my head and into theirs for a second? Anyway,...
Paul Rudd: When I said, “Jon, I hope you’re ready to get naked in this interview,” I didn’t anticipate that you would actually be physically naked.
Jon Hamm: Well, it helps me to be emotionally naked if I’m physically naked.
PR: I see.
JH: Thank you, by the way, for also being naked.
PR: Well, look, it just didn’t seem right-
JH: It’s great to be...
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‘Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?’ he asked me...
– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
(I juust went a little nuts with the quote saving feature at Goodreads. So many I’d forgot! You can friend me here if you’d like. I’m trying to be better at keeping it updated.)
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Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives | TED
In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. TED Fellow Jane Chen shows an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm — a design that’s safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any...
– Margot Fonteyn (via rainier)
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Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism - for the record it’s my least...
– Conan O’Brien (via editorlisa and dpstyles and david and viviane212) (via sarahchristine) (via molls)
This is getting posted a lot today I’m sure. But I think it’s important.
Justin Timberlake, there are many many covers of this song, but I’m liking what you’re doing with this. It’s probably the tears in your eyes at the end, because you know that makes me love you more. (P.S. I like your beardy friend. Lets have more of him.)
As an aside, the quality of these Hope for Haiti videos is really nice.
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Anthony Atala on growing new organs | TED
Anthony Atala’s state-of-the-art lab grows human organs — from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that “prints” human tissue.
This is insane. At 11 minutes...
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Allowing this cruel and hateful comic a place on our pages disgraced those...
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No. It is an everyday reality at NOTRE DAME. Oh, this is infuriating and tragically unsurprising. This is why I hate my alma mater, why I think it is bowing more and more to the pressures of the religious right, flagrantly disregarding ex corde ecclesiae at every crossroads, why the university’s...
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Ah Observer, you still suck →
Bring back the British! Truly, the more time goes by I realize that British...
– The Underlying Tragedy - Readers’ Comments - NYTimes.com
I am speechless. The solution to Haiti’s problems is fucking more exploitation?! The fuck? Usually I try and ignore internet comments, as its an exercise of the lowest of the low of humanity and stupidity. And I’m less...
hitrecordjoe:
originally released on hitRECord.org
PeteForester85 wrote and read not only an appeal for aid to Haiti, but an invitation to examine our freedom, our fragility and our light. RECord your rendition and contribute to the collaboration here. These words he wrote could sound great coming from a multitude…
This is worth a watch. Text:
We are issuing a challenge. Given that whatever...
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I don’t think my brand of confidence can come from an outside source. I...
– Gabby Sidibe
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52 Weeks of UX →
matthewb:
A discourse on the process of designing for real people, from Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer. I love seeing this sort of project built on Tumblr, and Brewer has included some sweet design details, including the 1–52 navigation in the header, linking to articles tagged for each week.
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25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time... →
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The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake...
– Stephen Jay Gould