Month: May 2014

  • We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via justanotherquoteblog)

  • thisistheverge: Google’s self-driving car isn’t a car, it’s the future Somewhere deep inside the secret labs at Google X, Sergey Brin must have read that and smiled. And then climbed into his tiny car — the one with a strange smiley face for a front and a noticeably missing steering wheel — and with a…

  • megsokay: sesamestreet: We’re saddened by the passing of our friend Maya Angelou. Thank you for all you’ve done, and for all the hugs. 🙁

  • Author, poet Maya Angelou dead at 86 | KDVR.com – Denver, Colorado News, Weather, Sports and more

    Author, poet Maya Angelou dead at 86 | KDVR.com – Denver, Colorado News, Weather, Sports and more warrenellis: via bitly http://bit.ly/1gAgMB4

  • fastcompany: Google’s Self-Driving Car Is Real, And It Looks Like A Tiny Bubble-Car We’ve known Google has been working on self-driving cars for awhile now, but all of a sudden, the project is real: last night, Google revealed a working prototype of its self-driving car. It’s a two-seater that looks something like a mashup of a Fiat…

  • ‘Mischievous Responders’ Confound Research On Teens

    ‘Mischievous Responders’ Confound Research On Teens hautepop: blackbeardblog: If kids report that they’re transgender and have one leg and belong to a gang and have several children … take it with a grain of salt. This is a good article on, basically, kids trolling surveys for a laugh. It happens a lot. If I was…

  • ilovecharts: The Largest Immigrant Population in Each State ¿reconquista?

  • jonnyskov: One of my favorite interviews with Maya Angelou, conducted by Michael Silverblatt for KCRW’s Bookworm.

  • legosaurus: René (Ceci n’est pas une pomme) Image by Samsofy || FB

  • For Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #14, placed in the “Money” section of the AGO’s “Art as Therapy,” de Botton tells us Sherman’s character is “uncertain about herself” and that it’s “a very normal feeling” and “we are a bit like this too.” It’s one of his many idiotic misreadings (I could fill this review…