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todaysdocument: “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” Opinion, 5/17/1954 Case File for Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al., ca. 1950 – ca. 1955. Records of the Supreme Court of the United States. National Archives Identifier: 1656510 Sixty years ago on May 17,…
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tehjaybo: Oh good, this game tracks my stats… Lets see how I did. … … … Oh god, what have I done?
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femmebot: The Product Death Cycle (via Twitter / davidjbland: This is what I’m calling the …)
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How can an organization encourage innovative ideas and allow them to move through the system? The answer is that you need to create little pockets of chaos within the larger organization. Ori Brafman (via stoweboyd)
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In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being…
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cinoh: theparisreview: “When Mercedes was older, he told her: ‘You should marry me because I’m going to be very important.’ I think he knew all along.” Read part two of Silvana Paternostro’s oral biography of Gabriel García Márquez.
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futurist-foresight: The wonderful maps show the most highly-value exports by country. kateoplis: Your highest-valued exports, mapped
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tanacetum-vulgare: blacksentai: universalequalityisinevitable: David Suzuki in this interview about facing the reality of climate change and other environmental issues from Moyers & Company. I feel you pops. I like the no bullshit turn David Suzuki has made in the past few years. He used to be so much more posi about green capitalism, at least…
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nprbooks: mashable: This Tiny Book of Historical Events Is Smaller Than a Finger Tip Denver-based illustrator Evan Lorenzen created The Mini Book of Major Events, a hand-sewn book barely larger than a pencil eraser. I don’t think I can make another Tiny Food Party reference again so soon, so I’ll just say TINY BOOK OMG WHEE AWESOME!…
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The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. Michel Foucault, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (via gloomy-planets)