July 2010
"Crop Mobbing"
Social networking technology has contributed to the spread of a new group activity: crop mobbing. In a modern-day equivalent of barn-raising, groups of young farmers and city-dwelling locavores descend on farms to offer their labor without expectation of compensation other than a hearty meal. They focus their efforts on family-owned organic farms. Not everyone is enthusiastic about the...
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Why We Dream: Real Reasons Revealed
The slumbering mind might not seem like an apt tool for any critical thinking, but humans can actually solve problems while asleep, researchers say. Not only that, but one purpose for dreaming itself may be to help us find solutions to puzzles that plague us during waking hours.
Dreams are highly visual and often illogical in nature, which makes them ripe for the type of...
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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of...”
– Bill Cosby
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June 2010
Overheard...
Mime on cell: Man, who the fuck is this?
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...”
– Anatole France
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Is There Any Shadow Darker Than One's Own Soul
She falls into the broken bleakness of herself, is there any shadow darker than one’s own soul? Dawn’s fine whipped promise whispers ugly fluttered cries in visions stuttering into blue dimensions: rapidly tattooing fast-paced incongruous behaviour; reality surfaces and winks. Sunlight: a memory wrapped in distant colour, the black, grey, white fantasies of those solemn days. Tightly...
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*Thanks to Dean for sending this to me.
Things I Need To Remind Myself:
this is only temporary
nothing lasts forever
be positive
everything takes time
more brain, less heart
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“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be...”
– Tom Gates
Anonymous asked: this is awesome. thank you.
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'The Cove' film spurs free speech debate in Japan
The Academy Award winning documentary The Cove is stirring up controversy in Japan, where several theaters, including one on an U.S. Army base, have removed it from their screens, while others decide if they should risk showing it all. Last week, three theaters pulled the film, which depicts the annual dolphin slaughter in a Japanese village, after they received a number of protests and angry...
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“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
– Jeanette Winterson
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Overheard...
Teen hipster girl to friend : On a scale of one to ten, how many cars are coming?
Blind Dog Has Seeing Eye Dog
Ellie, a young cavalier King Charles spaniel in England, is almost completely blind. While her owner and a local animal organization are working to raise money for a vision-restoring operation, a German shepherd named Leo has taken matters into his own paws, and is protecting and guiding her. “Ellie has cataracts on both eyes and is only aware of shadows,” explains Jean Spencer,...
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Anonymous asked: the problem with the missing sources: I always quite successfully use "tineye.com" to find out who made the picture...
