listening to "The Warning - Hot Chip"
Excuse me, sir, I’m lost. I’m looking for a place where I can get lost…
“ To summarize my main points: A few lucky men are at the top of society and enjoy the culture’s best rewards. Others, less fortunate, have their lives chewed up by it. Culture uses both men and women, but most cultures use them in somewhat different ways. Most cultures see individual men as more expendable than individual women, and this difference is probably based on nature, in whose reproductive competition some men are the big losers and other men are the biggest winners. Hence it uses men for the many risky jobs it has. Men go to extremes more than women, and this fits in well with culture using them to try out lots of different things, rewarding the winners and crushing the losers. ”
“ This amendment is as clear as day. It explicitly bars using the funds in this bill to ‘transfer, release or incarcerate’ any of the Guantanamo detainees in the United States. When the Administration closes Guantanamo, we will ensure it does so the right way. ”
Think Progress » Reid: Guantanamo Detainees Should Not Be Held In U.S. Prisons
Oh, I’m so angry about this.
“ Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement,” he continues. “It’s an indisputable receipt for your existence. And if you allow that to be squandered by other people who are as bored as you are, it’s gonna say a lot about who you are as a person. ”
The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation — New York Magazine
“ Tried to edit my Google Apps start page using Google Chrome - got message that “this browser isn’t supported. ” Firing up Firefox. ”
Twitter / Charlene Li: Tried to edit my Google Ap …
Heh.
“ New video evidence has surfaced showing that U.S. military forces in Afghanistan have been instructed by the military’s top chaplain in the country to “hunt people for Jesus” as they spread Christianity to the overwhelmingly Muslim population. Soldiers also have imported bibles translated into Pashto and Dari, the two dominant languages of Afghanistan. ”
(OH GOOD. via @lehmannchris)
“ The result is a character who exterminates an entire race and yet remains fundamentally innocent. The purpose of this paper is to examine the methods Card uses to construct this story of a guiltless genocide, to point out some contradictions inherent in this scenario, and to raise questions about the intention-based morality advocated by Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. ”
Creating the Innocent Killer [via @debcha]
“ LIFE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH ”
A church sign in Newton.
I feel like there are plentiful counterexamples.
Sunlight Labs
Turning Government Data into Usable Information. API’s for “civic coders” inclined towards transparency through data visualization. God this is sexy.
![Art for a Dollar [via twitter:@kimsigold]](http://12.media.tumblr.com/XkAxIQ8jamng6eyxPxQtX13Xo1_400.jpg)
Art for a Dollar [via twitter:@kimsigold]
