January 2010
Good Decision 2010
infinitepet:
Decided that 2010 is the year of Al Green. (Not that every year should have no Al Green, but this year should have an abundance.)
Feeling better already.
If you hadn’t moved out of our apartment you would know that 2008 was the year of Al Green.
Heaven just got a little more J.D. Salinger. →
This actually bums me out, since I’m just assuming he was still writing in seclusion. I kept hoping some new manuscript would magically appear. The Glass family is my favorite literary clan since Madeleine L’Engle’s Austin family - which was the last time I felt this sad to hear the death of an author.
always my favorite game: White People Problems
Diana: haha mose here is an example of how lazy i am i was paid on friday people gave me money, money that was mine to have and spend, just so long as i put it in a machine at the bank and i did not lift a finger to put that money in the bank until TODAY. i have been scrounging my money and foregoing very necessary expenses because i am too lazy to walk three blocks Mose sounds like my life Diana...
EtherPad →
New favorite online resource! Makes collaborative work simple, accessible from anywhere, works intuitively. Building a group study guide right now, the real-time chat window is extra helpful as well.
"If you continue to be boring, I will hire an... →
Internet Policy and Human Flourishing →
Yes yes yes! References and builds on Amartya Sen’s capacity as Rawlsian need, something that I’ve been thinking about all year.
She traces her narrative framework to Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s discourse about “capabilities for human flourishing”. She wants to articulate a regime of law and policy for information technology spaces that seeks to let humans flourish....
Female Banks in India Earn Chances to Rule →
There are about eleven parts of this article that I find fascinating and worthy of remark. Recommended to fem studies majors (obviously). bthny, dig this.
“All our biggest problems (pandemics, climate change, poverty, nuclear weapons)...”
– - TED Curator Chris Anderson
(Clearly I am not studying for my Latin American politics midterm in 10 hours.)
“The last time people were this disapointed with a tablet, they had the word...”
– george_johnson at 8 Things That Suck About the iPad
“SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): The main reason why I see you...”
– astrobarry.com — Horoscopes that keep it real
I’m a fucking jerk.
(via infinitepet)
Goddamn if that isn’t right on.
The Big Picture: Faces of Haiti →
This photo essay is astounding.
Haiti: the land where children eat mud →
The appalling state of the country is a direct result of having offended a quite different celestial authority — the French. France gained the western third of the island of Hispaniola — the territory that is now Haiti — in 1697. It planted sugar and coffee, supported by an unprecedented increase in the importation of African slaves. Economically, the result was a...
Dispatch from Haiti →
Right now, Port au Prince is on a massive adrenaline high. The streets are swarming with people carrying bundles, foraging for food, and scavenging what they can from the city’s wreckage. Basic survival demands an incredible amount of energy, and most of the people I spoke to are consumed with the immediate present. Nobody wanted to tell me about the earthquake, which already seemed...
World Bank Statement on Haiti Debt →
Currently, Haiti’s debt to the World Bank, which is interest-free, is about $38 million—about 4% of Haiti’s total external debt. Due to the crisis caused by the earthquake, we are waiving any payments on this debt for the next five years and at the same time we are working to find a way forward to cancel the remaining debt.
WatchI can always expect belly laughs from Norm MacDonald.
“The Democrats are a clapped out, gut-free lobbyist machine. The Republicans are...”
– Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic.
henry miller
“She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately—- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers all glaring at us and we in each other’s arm oblivious. I sit down beside her and she talks—- a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love...
What do our lovers see when they close their eyes? What comes to them in daydreams? Only those who love artists will ever know, though it breaks our hearts to find it’s never us.
- Andrew Sean Greer, “The Confessions of Max Tivoli”
