Dogs Wearing Sunglasses
This may be one of the better photographs I’ve ever taken.
I think it’s a candidate to beat my #1 Google Images result for “big boners”.
Bankers Seek to Debunk Attack on Top 1% -
Come for the gut-busting quotes, stay for the disappointing news about Monica Seles’s love life.
“In the only written statement that Mr. Twombly ever made about his work, a short essay in an Italian art journal in 1957, he tried to make clear that his intentions were not subversive but elementally human. Each line he made, he said, was “the actual experience” of making the line, adding: “It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.” — Cy Twombly, Idiosyncratic Painter, Dies at 83
My favorite part of Ken Jenning’s answering of questions on reddit.
Do Social Media Make Protests Possible? -
If you’re like me, you get excited when there’s a new Clay Shirky or Malcolm Gladwell essay in your life. This is a brief point/counterpoint-style response to each other’s essays on social media’s power in activism.
I lean more towards Gladwell’s point of view.
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Day 6 of 6.5
Keith is shooting his pilot on Mars, apparently. I can’t wait to see it!
“People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.” — Paul Graham, The Acceleration of Addictiveness
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