September 2011
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What we’re leaving behind today, at record pace, is whatever belief we might...
– Mark Slouka
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[W]e should presume that the feral will only gain in importance in years to...
– Matthew Battles, “The Call of the Feral”
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Like weeds, we grow in disturbed soil, subsiding between progress and collapse....
– Matthew Battles, “The Call of the Feral”
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If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless...
– William Gibson (via lotekpulse, via Betty Ann)
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A Kickstarter project to make a documentary about Pacific Beach fixture Slomo:
Dr. John Kitchin, a one-time neurologist, abruptly left a successful career in 1998, moved to Pacific Beach, and dedicated himself to exploring the nature of subjective experience… through the practice of slow-motion rollerblading.
In the years since, he’s come to be known as “Slomo,”...
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The qualities of a city like Tokyo that is parts-oriented to begin with,...
– Yoshinobu Ashihara
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"Special Class" [from the vaults]
The annual “Education Issue” of The New York Times Magazine comes out this Sunday with a beautiful cover designed by Will Bryant. Amongst the articles, is a series of short pieces on “The Educational Experiences That Change a Life”. It’s a set of interesting recollections from fourteen different people, including Zaha Hadid, Junot Díaz, Pico Iyer, Wes Anderson, and...
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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...
– Brian Eno
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Multi-disciplinary is a really key missing part of society…
– Joi Ito
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one we have.
– Émile Chartier
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There’s so much to like about “Scale-Free Schools / An Introduction”, but then there are components of “A Day in the Life” that leave me shaking (not nodding) my head. You can probably guess what they are. (via Monika)
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Takoyaki Machine, by Kenichi Okada)
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Leaders are not what many people think — people with huge crowds following them....
– John Holt