May 2011
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“Owls have many more rods in their eyes than humans, which bring in much more...”
– via: NYTimes
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David (Foster) Wallace's Syllabus for "Literary... →
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In Williamsburg, a Live-In Cabinet of Curiosities →
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“Wherever I found a library, I immediately felt at home. Empty or full, it...”
– from A Country Without Libraries by Charles Simic
via: The New York Review of Books
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The Charms of Eleanor by Russell Baker | The New... →
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“The hottest sex I’ve ever had is inside language…I mean the way that...”
– an interview with Sugar on language, writing, emotion, sex, and power.
via: The Rumpus
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“Nobody — repeat, nobody — was more fun to imitate. Savage said...”
– Bill Simmons, “Macho Man brought together the die-hards, the bandwagon fans and the ’80s”
via: ESPN
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Thom Yorke, February 25, 2010 at The Cambridge... →
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“The problem is I have all these questions I don’t necessarily want you to...”
– “Comments Written By Actual Students Extracted From Workshopped Manuscripts at a Major University”
via: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Brightly Colored Bird Feathers Inspire New Kind of... →
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Bathing Suit Shopping With Annette Kellerman, the... →
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“I hope the washing machine is in working order by now,” Castelli wrote...”
– The Leo Castelli Archives are now available at the Archives of American Art, yo.
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“Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a...”
– Charles Barkley, a Hall-Of-Fame power forward speaking out about homosexuality in sports, in the wake of Phoenix Suns President and CEO Rick Welts coming out in an New York Times story over the weekend. source [via]
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Does Depression Help Us Think Better? | Wired... →
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“I certainly don’t go around looking for loners, but I guess I am interested in...”
– —John McPhee, “The Art of Nonfiction No. 3, John McPhee”
via: Paris Review
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30 Images Of Star Wars Behind The Scenes →
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“Your exhibits are old and falling apart. Your strange, but not strange...”
– A brilliant review on Yelp of the Museum of Jurassic Technology that William Poundstone found.
via: hydeordie
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The art and architecture of Donald Judd, in Soho... →
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Books We Forgot We Loved: Lonesome Dove | The... →
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“What you love can differ, but the love, once it comes, that feeling of waking up...”
– —Robert Krulwich
via: Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
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“WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame...”
– Dave Eggers and Ninive Clements Calegari, “The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries”
via: NYTimes
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“In a quite lovely bit of sleuthing, the Oxford English Dictionary has discovered...”
– OED discovers maybe the first OMG
via: History News Network
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Ai Weiwei: Daring Chinese Artist | The New... →
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“Pain and itch are extremes of our sense of touch, which itself is not well...”
– —Robert Sanders and Diana Bautista, “Pain and itch are connected down deep”
via: UC Berkeley News Center
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“Electric like Dick Hyman”: 170 Beastie Boys... →
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I think you’re more an archivist than a... →
“He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand…”
-Avi Steinberg, Running the Books
via: chessieann
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