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People think of education as something they can finish. Isaac Asimov (via greatauthorquotes)
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He was clean for 23 years and only fell off the wagon last year. FUCK HEROIN.
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peepingbird: escultura por Noelia Lozano
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By any measure, NCLB was a failure in raising academic performance and narrowing gaps in opportunity and outcomes. But by very publicly measuring the test results against arbitrary benchmarks that no real schools have ever met, NCLB succeeded in creating a narrative of failure that shaped a decade of attempts to “fix” schools while blaming…
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I was asked in an interview once: You’re writing another book with a female lead? Aren’t you afraid you’re going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has…
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Shit just takes time, and creative people make time. Jason Kottke on the truest description of the creative process ever written. (via creativesomething)
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Philippe Stark chair, under snow
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Groundhog day, Denver
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amospoe: Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception… Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium.” —- Aleksander Rodchenko
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[T]he tactics that Brand deployeed in the Catalog—peer production, aggregation, and curation—became models for digitized processes that have dramatically enlarged and diversified membership in the public sphere. At the same time however, the Catalog and community it served should remind us of the hidden costs of putting our hopes for social change in the technology-empowered,…