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Morse admitted that there was no formal reason for that position. It was just a feeling. “We’re not saying that we’re measuring educational outcomes,” he explained. “We’re not saying we’re social scientists, or we’re subjecting our rankings to some peer-review process. We’re just saying we’ve made this judgment. We’re saying we’ve interviewed a lot of…
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Wow, I am *so* the mom of a little boy. Look at me posting about toy cars, twice in a row. Love this Green Toys School Bus. Made in the USA from 100% recycled plastic milk containers! (via swissmiss | Green Toys School Bus)
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No carpenter should be without a pair. (via The Postmodern Polymath: Build It Yourself: Folding Sawhorses)
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How to create stunning mood boards with So.cl
fuselabs: Mood boards are a common tool used by visual designers and marketing teams to establish the look and feel or brand for a project. Typically this is done by searching through image archives and painstakingly building the collections in mosaics, and it involves numerous steps to collect, organize, and layout manually by hand. Read…
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nevver: Sanity Clause
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The Ghost of Books: Part I
lareviewofbooks: SVEN BIRKERTS, GARY PHILLIPS, and JULIE CLINE Image © Lisa Jane Persky for Los Angeles Review of Books “The Ghost of Books: Past, Future, and Present” is an experiment not in terror and is not necessarily Dickensian. We’ve asked certain writers to respond to the three times (or tenses) in the subtitle, or simply…
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dinosaurparty: (via The “random tattoo” – Boing Boing) Every time you scan Fed Bosch’s QR code tattoo, it takes you to a different picture, video, forecast, or tweet. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand… I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that’s what we all are trying to do. Maurizio Cattelan…
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Are Creative People More Dishonest? – Carmen Nobel via HBS Working Knowledge
Are Creative People More Dishonest? – Carmen Nobel via HBS Working Knowledge Picasso is attributed with saying “art is a lie that tells the truth”. Creative individuals have also been characterized as those who can hold two conflicting ideas in their mind without going insane. This study comes as no surprise, but as verification stoweboyd:…
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Havel was different, in the end, from so many of his generation. Obsessed for so long with the tactics of destruction, few of them understood the importance of reconstruction. In fact, victory was not just toppling the old regime, victory was creating the institutions and symbols that would replace it. Because he was far-thinking enough…