September 2009
50 posts
Elation (Positive) Mood Statements
1. Today is neither better nor worse than any other day. 2. I do feel pretty good today, though. 3. I feel light-hearted. 4. This might turn out to have been one of my good days. 5. If your attitude is good, then things are good and my attitude is good. 6. I feel cheerful and lively. 7. I've certainly got energy and self-cofidence to share. 8. On the whole, I have very little difficulty in...
Porn surfing rampant at U.S. science foundation →
For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.
When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor...
Eric Lindley is a Dartmouth alumn. His voice...
“The red geraniums fluorescing on the terrace, the wind swaying the daisies, the...”
– Margaret Atwood, Bad News.
“I had dinner with my father last night, and made a classic Freudian slip. I...”
– Jonathan Katz
(via heartliketwigs)
(via finallyseeing)
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all...”
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History (via psychotherapy)
“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to...”
Internet Meme timeline →
sarahspy:
Dynamic timeline of internet memes. (via)
Calvin and Hobbes: Snow Art Gallery →
Quotes about the 20th Century →
E.G.
The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated Twentieth Century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over...
The 20 funniest suggestions from Google Suggest →
TFLN
(609): We walked into the bar in The Flying V formation from The Mighty Ducks. We were ready.
“Cette dame a le nez comme un ver solitaire
Louise a oublié sa fourrure
Moi je...”
– Guillaume Apollinaire, “Lundi Rue Christine”
“I can’t believe that,” said Alice.
“Can’t you?”...”
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A California... →
“Woman in Lycra leopard print dress: I had to jam out with my
clam out. I had to...”
– www.overheardinnewyork.com