September 2009
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I was just told by a friend that The Melting Pot...
‘Twas a revelation from Heaven.
…a bicycle can and should be something quite beautiful. Not beautiful in...
– “On the Aesthetics of Bicycles”, The World Awheel
I’m clearly addicted to bikes. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it, but I bought a second one last Saturday. Pretty much all of my attention has been thrown into cleaning and restoring the two bikes.
It’s been...
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SIGG Waterbottles Full of BPA's, Lies. →
…Also, not completely honest.
Despite a squeaky-clean image as the greenest of waterbottle manufacturers, Swiss maker SIGG has confessed to using BPA’s (an unstable and unhealthy plastic compound) in the interior lining of it’s aluminum bottles.
If you pitched you Nalgene to go cleaner with SIGG, you might need to start looking again. (I highly recommend Kleen Kanteen - the...
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Love removes none of the contradictions of our lives but, by adding one more,...
– Randall Jarrell
This is from an anthology of Jarrell’s poetry criticism. If critics wrote like this today my library might actually circulate more than 2 volumes of poetry a month.
(via reconnoitre, originally posted by thebronzemedal)
Words are cheap, but good writing is hard to come by. In my...
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More people in the United States attend zoos than they do all the National...
– Nancy Etcoff, in her lecture on Happiness at TED 2004.
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This is just really really darn good. →
Talk about a good advertisement…This is a sure-fire cure if you happen to be experiencing “a case of the Mondays.”
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The most excellent jihad is that for conquest of self.
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Bumper sticker my friend bought from Muslim store in Brooklyn (via kareem)
That is a truly awesome bumper sticker.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I...
– W.H. Auden
american poet, dramatist, and essayist.
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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
– Albert Schweitzer philosopher, theologian, musician, Winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. (via meta-theologica)
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JOE WILSON GAVE YOUR DAUGHTER SWINE FLU.
JOE WILSON ATE THE LAST SLICE OF YOUR...
– So allegeth the internet (www.joewilsonisyourpreexistingcondition.com)
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What I Googled during the business meeting today:
Napoleon complex.