Category: words

  • theaudacityofswope: louislarry: julialost: monobeartheater: rogue-of-teh-mind: whatamievensaying: nosdrinker: how is it that we all started drawing that S thing in elementary school, across the country, without the Internet telling us to Which S…

  • elmerseason: how to draw a super s (also, if you are into folklore, how culture works, teaching skill sets, how memes work, anthro stuff, etc. etc., and you’ve never spent some time with the kid-to-kid tutorial videos on youtube, you really should) (Source: http://elmerseason.tumblr.com/)

  • Project on Student Debt: State by State Data

    Project on Student Debt: State by State Data dinosaurparty: Seven in 10 college seniors (71%) who graduated last year had student loan debt, with an average of $29,400 per borrower. From 2008 to 2012, debt at graduation (federal and private loans combined) increased an average of six percent each year. Over half of Californians have…

  • Consumerism

    Consumerism tetw: A Tetw reading list The Gollum Effect by Venkat Rao – Gollum is both employee and consumer. A prosumer locked in a death embrace with a product. He is a raving fan. Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed by David Cain – Companies seek to encourage the public’s habit of casual or non-essential…

  • A little bit of home found in Denver. Coffee from where I was born. (at Kaladi Brothers Coffee)

  • Today In Latin American History

    Today In Latin American History fylatinamericanhistory: December 11 1890: Argentine Tango singer Carlos Gardel is said to be born in France. 1916: Cuban bandleader and composer Dámaso Pérez Prado, known as the “King of Mambo,” is born in Matanzas. 1931: Actress Rita Moreno is born Rosa Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico. 1932: Enrique… caminito…

  • warrenellis: AFROFUTURISM, Ytasha Womack

  • stoweboyd: I discovered (via http://eulr.co/socbizdesign) a beautiful visualization of one company’s True Colors personality test results, created by superimposing the team’s individual profiles on top of each other (from Designing a Learning Organization by Matthew Scharpnick). Not only arresting visaully, I bet that a great deal of conflict and cooperation can be predicted by looking at various…

  • At the conclusion of each lecture, Chomsky received a thundering round of applause; by the third day the applause was deafening and sustained; it refused to stop. The applause, I am certain, was not for the specific points being made — points Chomsky has been making in some form for more than 50 years —…