January 2010
92 posts
Derren Brown's Forer Experiment Text
You are a person prone to bouts of self-examination. This is in sharp contrast to a striking ability you have developed to appear very socially engaged, even the life and soul of the party; but in a way that only convinces others. You are all too aware of it being a façade.
This means that you will often be at a gathering and find yourself playing a part. While on the one hand you’ll be talkative...
Temples of Knowledge - Historical Libraries of The... →
Beautiful photographs of beautiful libraries.
Spirit →
FEAR AND PHONE SERVICE →
Prompted by this very clever montage of horror films in which each clip features someone bemoaning a mysterious lack of cell-phone service at a crucial moment (hat tip: Very Short List), I…
Clipboard anxiety
foomandoonian:
I get this weird feeling when I have something in the clipboard. If it’s something I have copied it’s a kind of pregnant “holding onto something” feeling. If it’s something I’ve cut, then I have an additional anxiety that I will have a crash, forget about it, or most likely of all, copy again before I have pasted.
via archive.ncyoung.com
I get this! Other terms he cites for the...
How Huble Sees →
Slideshow of how Huble’s images are enhanced to include oxygen, hydrogen and sulfur ionization, and thus create the images we are shown (because naked-eye pictures would be solid black, basically).
via an AMAZING Reddit thread, via Kottke
“A motto for procrastinators: “Carpe Diem Cras” - “Sieze the...”
– @spufidoo
“Just had some peaches, fresh from the can.”
– @YODspica
“Trying to think of an image for the ‘What We Do’ section of our new...”
– @zambonini
“I asked what it’s like, I was told, “Do you like farming as a job...”
– @PenLlawen
“Sarchasm: The yawning gulf between my wit and your understanding.”
– @PenLlawen
“All I ask of you, especially young people […] is one thing. Please don’t...”
– Conan O’Brien’s departing message
Top Ten Books That People Say That They've Read...
1984 by George Orwell (42%)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (31%)
Ulysses by James Joyce (25%)
The Bible (24%)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (16%)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (15%)
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (14%)
In Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust (9%)
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (6%)
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (6%)
via...
Drives of a Lifetime →
National Geographic’s list of best road trips (Italy, UK, Netherlands, France, Jamaica, NZ, Canada x5, US x39)
“There’s nothing wrong w/ not being “passionate” about your 9-5...”
– Ben Casnocha - I needed to hear this.
“Fewer deaths occurred in Hiroshima in August 1945 than in Port-au-Prince last...”
– Prioritising Life
“[I]f we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask...”
– David Weinberger [via] See also: the opposite of noise, do not disturb, and some free associations. (via bobulate)
The 10 best countries to live →
1. France 2. Australia 2. Switzerland 2. Germany 5. New Zealand 6. Luxembourg 6. United States 6. Belgium 9. Canada 9. Italy 9. Netherlands 9. Norway 9. Austria
caffeinegraph.jpg →
via http://www.energyfiend.com/wp-content/caffeinegraph.jpg faved by Flexybelle
“It turns out that today’s garbage isn’t like the trash we’re used to disposing....”
– Susan S. Szenasy/Metropolis (via unconsumption)
January 15, 2010 →
About to put up my biggest blog post ever. But first, go here and donate if you can. If they reach 100k, I’ll do a double update. About Comedy
Every comedian I know has a story (or two,…
Graphical World Progress Report – Now Available →
Want the report? Details at the end on how to get a print.
UNdata provides a catalog of 27 United Nations statistical databases and 60 million records about the past, present, and future…
“It turns out that the “dog people” — based on how people...”
– How are dog people and cat people different? - CNN.com