February 2012
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your...
Lenox Aubade
by Paula Bohince
for Amy Clampitt
I grew my hair out in a depression. Let it knot into a forum for the birds in my thoughts, sparked into actuality in the wee dark. What wills them awake? An early sentry, then the rest beckoning? Coordinates rising when stars in the lifting night are falling. Letting them nest, I felt their joy ...
“Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?
Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she...”
– William Shakespeare, Macbeth (via francine)
artist Huguette Caland is on Tumblr →
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch (via atomos)
November 2011
“I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a...”
– Alan Watts (via theuniverseworks)
“All things are interrelated and interdependent; nothing exists in isolation. The...”
– Matthew Flickstein, Journey to the Center (via journeytoenlightenment)
“Many problems arise when your country’s legislature is consistently more...”
– MediaShift Idea Lab - DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Political Force vs. SOPA | PBS
Geoffrey: There is a big difference between free speech and the theft of goods or services. Rogue websites exist to benefit from the theft of others’ intellectual property—no one has provided even a single example of a rogue site that contains speech protected by the First Amendment. Indeed, these two priorities are consistent. The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights...
MediaShift Idea Lab - DontBreakTheInternet: How... →
Tumblr took even more dramatic action as far as getting users’ attention, and redirected the roughly 500,000 daily unique visitors to Tumblr.com to a slick “call Congress” tool that dialed users, prompted them with talking points, and connected them to their representatives. I need to take a minute and let you marinate on Tumblr’s part in all of this. The service combines...
The Prose Poem
by Campbell McGrath
On the map, it is precise and rectilinear as a chessboard, though driving past you would hardly notice it, this boundary line or ragged margin, a shallow swale that cups a simple trickle of water, less rill than rivulet, more gully than dell, a tangled ditch grown up throughout with a fearsome assortment of wildflowers and bracken. There is no fence, though here and there a...
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Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
Gustavo Santaolalla - Desert bus ride
