January 2012
12 posts
What is the "dark" part of the internet? →
Third culture kid →
A Third Culture Kid (TCK) is a person who has spent a significant part of [their] developmental years outside the parents’ culture. The TCK frequently builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture may be assimilated into the TCK’s life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of...
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“829：なごむ：2011/09/13(火) 18:52:01 母の名前がユキで、私はユカ。 父は携帯のアドレス帳に、家族は下の名前だけで登録している為、 ...”
– 家じゃ亭主関白気取りの父(CROSSBREED クロスブリード！)
“最初この作品を見た時に、よく分からないところがありました。ガス・ヴァン・サント監督にしては物語が綺麗すぎるように感じで理解できなかったのですけれど、先日ゲイの友人...”
– 加瀬亮さん 東京国際映画祭『永遠の僕たち』舞台挨拶に登場！！ ( #SPEJ )
George Whitman: A bibliophile in Paris →
INDIFFERENT as he was to modern amenities, George Whitman took some convincing to snuff out the candles for good and install electric lights in his Paris bookshop in 1959. His ramshackle labyrinth of dusty nooks and sagging bookshelves, some secured with twisted coat-hangers, was more a commune than a shop. Over the 60 years since he bought the place from an Arab grocer, using inherited...
December 2011
12 posts
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Sentinelese people →
The Sentinelese (also Sentineli, Senteneli, Sentenelese, North Sentinel Islanders) are one of the Andamanese indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, located in the Bay of Bengal. They inhabit North Sentinel Island which lies westward off the southern tip of the Great Andaman archipelago. They are noted for vigorously resisting attempts at contact by outsiders. The Sentinelese maintain an...
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The Mystery Behind Anesthesia →
A video screen shows a man in his late 60s lying awake on an operating table. Just outside the camera’s view, a doctor is moving his finger in front of the man’s face, instructing him to follow it back and forth with his eyes. Seconds later, after a dose of the powerful anesthetic drug propofol, his eyelids begin to droop. Then his pupils stop moving. Only the steady background...
Trinity College Notebook by Isaac Newton →
This is a notebook Newton acquired while he was an undergraduate at Trinity College and used from about 1661 to 1665 (see his inscription). It includes many notes from his studies and, increasingly, his own explorations into mathematics, physics and metaphysics. It was judged ‘Not fit to be printed’ by Newton’s executor and was presented to the Library by the fifth Earl of...
“I would love yo make more movies. That is a FUCKING HARD JOB though, dude. Just...”
– Louis C.K. lays out his dream plan in a Reddit Q&A
Have one's cake and eat it too →
The expression vuoi la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca (“you want your barrel full of wine and your wife drunk”) is used in Italy with an equivalent meaning.
November 2011
18 posts
Protesters Disrupt German Nuclear Waste Shipment →
Last Wednesday, November 23, a train carrying 11 tubular containers of highly radioactive nuclear waste departed Normandy, France. The nuclear waste, which originated in German reactors years ago and was processed for storage by a French firm, is now bound for a temporary storage facility in a former salt mine near Gorleben, Germany. The 750-mile trip has...
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Dutch Researcher Created A Super-Influenza Virus... →
Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet’s population. Now, researchers and experts in bioterrorism debate whether it is a good idea to publish the virus creation ”recipe”. However, several voices argue that such research should have not happened in the first place. The virus is a strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be...
“All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death...”
– The character of Ernest Hemingway in the movie Midnight In Paris, as written by Woody Allen.
What are the chances of you coming into being? →
By: Ali Binazir June 15th, 2011
A little while ago I had the privilege of attending TEDx San Francisco, organized by the incomparable Christine Mason McCaull. One of the talks was by Mel Robbins, a riotously funny self-help author and life coach with a syndicated radio show. In it, she mentioned that scientists calculate the probability of your existing as you, today, at about one in 400...
Murakami on Stan Getz →
I have lost myself in many novels over the years, and been entranced by many jazz performances. Yet, for me, F. Scott Fitzgerald means “the novel,” while Stan Getz is synonymous with “jazz”… Of all Getz’s works, my very favorite is the two-disc set recorded live at the Storyville jazz club in 1951…The rhythm of Al Haig, Jimmy Raney, Teddy Kotick, and...
“もうすぐ、弁護士〜法律事務所もWeb化する。仮想弁護士だ。マーケターも会計士も、リモート化し自動化される。こうやって人件費が減ることは、人件費ぶんの富が余ることで...”
– シリコンバレーのわれわれは雇用を殺し, 富める者を肥大させているのか？
October 2011
27 posts
Murakami's 1Q84 Playlist on Spotify →
Masked Protesters Aid Time Warner’s Bottom Line →
SAN FRANCISCO — Anonymous, the hacker group, has jostled with the Iranian government and the Church of Scientology and has briefly shut down the Web sites of Visa, MasterCard and other global corporations.
When members appear in public to protest censorship and what they view as corruption, they don a plastic mask of Guy Fawkes, the 17th-century Englishman who tried to blow up the Houses of...
Death Cigarettes →
Death cigarettes were touted as free of chemical additives such as saltpeter. This ‘chemical-free’ approach included using a hemp cigarette paper with an ink free, watermark of a gray skull and crossbones logo.
Death’s “truth in marketing” approach was to highlight the dangers of cigarette smoking.[2] Publicity materials...
