RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • wanting it both ways: “Hundreds of thousands of young girls are reading this and using it as…

    wanting it both ways: “Hundreds of thousands of young girls are reading this and using it as… “Hundreds of thousands of young girls are reading this and using it as the basis for what they see as cool,” Ms. Coates told the Journal. “She’s the biggest columnist at Vice right now and she’s helpless, addicted,…

  • I can tell you from experience that A Beka (and Bob Jones University Press) are stridently against modernism in all its forms. (I’m assuming they’re against post-modernism, too, but you have to understand that the opinions and perspectives this sort of Christian fundamentalism has about society and culture were formed between the late 1920s and…

  • Do fonts affect people’s opinions?

    jkottke: You may remember a short piece by Errol Morris in the Times a few weeks ago that was more of a quiz than a essay. Well, the quiz turned out to be a smokescreen for how people’s opinions change when the text is set in different typefaces. Each Times participant read the passage in…

  • artlistpro: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would…

  • underpaidgenius: El Cafetal by Rafael Guillen I came with the rising sun and I’ve broughtnothing but two eyes, all I have,simply two eyes, for the harvestof grief that’s hidden in this junglelike the coffee shrubs. Fewer,but they fling themselves upwards, untouchable,are the trees that invidiously shut outthe light from this overwhelming indigence.With my machete I…

  • becoming-wave: nerdyninjanicole: Even though she grew up playing football, shooting hoops and running races against all the boys in her neighborhood, U.S. 800-meter champion Alysia Montano never wanted to be thought of as one of them. As a result, she started wearing a flower behind her right ear to remind the boys they were getting…

  • hangingfire: Carl Sagan’s message to Mars, recorded a few months before he died. Transcript via io9. Hi, I’m Carl Sagan. This is a place where I often work in Ithaca, New York near Cornell University. Maybe you can hear, in the background, a 200-foot waterfall right nearby, which is probably — I would guess —…

  • ruineshumaines: Art Game by Leo Caillard. On Tumblr. “This recent work is a reflection on the problem of our new digital world.Currently, at any stage of its creation, any idea or concept is digitally adapted.What will be retained in the future? What will happen to all of these billions of megabytes we stock on computers?…