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February 2010
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5 Steps to Give Your Ex a Nervous Breakdown
Call him from your parent’s cell phone, and don’t leave a message.
Don’t answer when he calls back and don’t respond to his “Everything okay?” text message.
Call him again, from the parent’s cell phone: again, no message.
When he calls back this time, answer. Explain that you didn’t die like he thought, you just broke the iPhone he gave you while you were together and you want him to...
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Tumblr’s Next Post Format: ★★★★★
Until recently, Tumblr has allowed its users to post text, photos (photosets), video, audio, quotes and conversations. Recently though, the Tumblr team added the ability to include questions and answers a la Formspring.
I’m sure Marco and David, as well as the rest of the smart people over at Tumblr have talked about the these post formats at length and have considered some other logical...
January 2010
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what do you guys think we should call the tumblr...
meaghano:
i am hungover and want to die and don’t know my words.
I’m super excited that I was the person who suggested the name they ended up using, Tumblr Reads. I hope to be able to make it on the 19th and so should you.
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via mattdowney)
Language deprivation experiments →
Language deprivation experiments have been attempted several times through history, isolating infants from the normal use of spoken or signed language in an attempt to discover the fundamental character of human nature or the origins of language.
One of those things I’ve thought about since I was a kid, but didn’t ever know the name for. Apparently, it’s been tried a few...
“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via hivelessmind)
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It's Complicated
theidiotking:
Some people are in relationships that contain a fair amount of gray area. They fight, they break up, they make up, they get back together, only to repeat the exact sequence a week later. They’re confused, they’re clouded by hormones and emotions, and of course, hormotions, which are hormonal emotions.
These couples argue loudly at gatherings, speak in muted, hushed tones to each...
“The more you know, the more you realise that you know nothing.”
– Socrates
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Trying really hard
Juno: You're like... the coolest person I've ever met and you don't even have to try.
Paulie: I try really hard actually.
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“Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that’s...”
– Melvin Fitting
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Everything Happens…
Penny: But, you know... everything happens.
Dr. Horrible: Don't say "for a reason".
Penny: No, I'm just saying that everything happens.
Dr. Horrible: Not to me.
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Don't Be A Hero →
By all means, love what you do. Work hard. Get involved. But recognize when your level of involvement is actually doing harm. If you’re playing the hero, or if you have a hero on your team, it’s probably time for a serious talk with your coworkers and manager.
Alex Payne’s carefully reasoned argument against the heroic all-nighter-pulling employee and their toxicity in teams.
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gregbiche asked: will you go to prom with me?
gregbiche asked: Dear Matt,
why is it, that, when i "geotag" an image on flickr, it almost always names the location/neighborhood something totally bogus? "Middle City East, Philadelphia" "Barclay Square, Lansdowne"
why is it, that, when i "geotag" an image on flickr, it almost always names the location/neighborhood something totally bogus? "Middle City East, Philadelphia" "Barclay Square, Lansdowne"
Ask me anything. →
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“Taxi Cab” is the second single from Vampire...
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December 2009
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...”
– Oscar Wilde (via sumfight)
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“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?”
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Your Annual Guide To Holiday Romance →
My personal favorite:
41. Avoid any girl who won’t wear a skirt in winter. The winter is too long as it is without having to do without legs. You’ll end up in the stairwell of a Christmas party making out with a girl in skirt.
November 2009
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Roulette →
Apophenia is the name for our brains’ tendency to seek patterns in random data, like looking at the blinking vertical sign next to the roulette table and thinking you know what the next number is going to be. I believe it’s also the reason New York feels so special. When you cram millions of people onto a tiny island, you start noticing what seems like more than mere coincidence. In a place...
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap...”
– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 (via tmblg)
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“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted,...”
– Joss Whedon (via patrickrhone)
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WatchMakebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)
If you have thirty minutes, and you’re contemplating playing Farmville, watch this instead. It will be worth your time.
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An Incomplete Education →
I couldn’t have said it better if I tried.
Listen. Hear what she’s saying. Synthesize what you hear in your head, but be slow to offer advice or “solutions.” Women (like many men, including me) often think by talking — or, if you like, by being heard. Shut up and listen. Seriously. Shut the fuck up sometimes.
No woman wants to be your Mom. Give more than you get and be a grown-up...
October 2009
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“If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you’re smart, surround...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via tmblg)
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Watch10/GUI is R. Clayton Miller’s “crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction.” Inspiring, to say the least.
September 2009
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Jack of all trades, master of none. →
If you’re like me, there are times when you get so excited about learning something new that you spend a day or two on it non-stop, only to get tired of it and move on to something else. When mastery is the goal, spending an exorbitant number of hours in one sitting will likely lead to burnout. We don’t go to the gym expecting to put on 20 pounds of muscle in a single, day-long workout....