April 2012
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“Who do you think was smarter, Jesus or Buddha? I mean, just in terms of not letting themselves get crucified…”
—Anthony Jeselnik
“When from a long distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”
—Marcel Proust
Hyrax Songs Have Orderly Syntax, Researchers Say →
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Researchers have found that hyraxes’ wailing, chucking, snorting, squeaking, tweeting songs have something rarely found in mammals: syntax and geographical dialects.
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“The point of the parable should be not the ant’s triumph, but the Grasshopper’s tragedy. For one cannot help reflecting that if there were no winters to guard against then the Grasshopper would not get his come-uppance nor the any his shabby victory. The life of the Grasshopper would be vindicated and that of the ant absurd.”
—Bernard Suits on Aesop’s “The Grasshopper and Ant”
Maxistentialism: How to ask a question →
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Chronicle of Higher Education:
The best reason to ask a question is to contribute to the quality of the discussion that has already begun. You can do this if you can draw something more and perhaps unexpected out of the speaker you are addressing. “Mr. Rasputin, I admire your tunic. Do you…
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Maxistentialism: New York Times: [Jack White] walked back to a room called the Vault,... →
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[Jack White] walked back to a room called the Vault, which is maintained at a constant 64 degrees. He pressed his thumb to a biometric scanner. The lock clicked, and he swung the door open to reveal floor-to-ceiling shelves containing the master recordings of nearly every song…
Oh no! Thomas Kincade died! Thanks for telling me AP mobile news update.
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“One thing often left out of my biography is that I was born in the deep south near Georgia.”
—Gary Kasparov (born in Baku Azerbaijan)
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Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio - Clavicle
This song has been stuck in my head ALL day.
“The computing power of your iPhone is roughly equal to the entire computing power of NASA in 1969. They used it to put a man on the moon. We use it to throw birds at pigs.”
—Gary Kasparov
