January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
winter break reading list →
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
11 posts
Strange Phenomena of the Mind →
Déjà Vu - the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but sometimes there is a firm sense...
“The five worst infirmities that afflict women are indocility, discontent,...”
– The Education of Women, c. 1700, Japan
Guilty as charged.
September 2011
2 posts
1 tag
July 2011
7 posts
The Norway Attacks and the Paranoid Mindset
It has emerged that Anders Breivik- who is suspected of killing at least 76 people in two attacks in Norway on Friday a week ago– was an avid user of online so-called “counter-jihad” forums. At one such site called document.no he claimed in 2009 that he was now working “full time to develop/promote further the Vienna school of thought that Fjordman, Bat Ye’or…and many others have already...
The Good Short Life →
By DUDLEY CLENDINEN Published: July 9, 2011 NY TIMES
I HAVE wonderful friends. In this last year, one took me to Istanbul. One gave me a box of hand-crafted chocolates. Fifteen of them held two rousing, pre-posthumous wakes for me. Several wrote large checks. Two sent me a boxed set of all the Bach sacred cantatas. And one, from Texas, put a hand on my thinning shoulder, and appeared to study...
I miss tumblin
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
9 posts
Best Nonfiction of 2010 - Conor Friedersdorf →
summer reading yo
“BE QUIET, TIFFANY, BE QUIET! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? STOP IT! I HAVE NEVER IN MY...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Obama and the End of Al-Qaeda - Juan Cole →
Bin Laden was already a dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War and the age of dictators in which a dissident such as he had no place in society and was shunted off to distant, frontier killing fields. The new generation of young Arabs in Egypt and Tunisia has a shot at a decent life. Obama has put the US on the right side of history in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Libya (where I see crowds for the first...
April 2011
21 posts
1 tag
Decluttering with IKEA | Inside Story →
For Stenebo, “one of IKEA’s absolute competitive advantages is the fantastic capacity to in a subtle way, almost unnoticeably, manoeuvre your purchases.” In other words, while IKEA encourages us to subscribe to the modernist design aesthetic that less is more, it manages at the same time to convince us – and this is the truly brilliant bit – that more is less. By means of a sophisticated sequence...
50 Watts: Koopman's Harem
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“We were kids without fathers…so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets...”
– Jay-Z, Decoded