November 2010
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i need to stop undoing my trousers as i walk towards the toilet because i’m starting to do that outside of my house.
bitchin'
yeah, let’s just openly kill our identities by cutting the top of our heads off in filtered photos to show your stylish attire which you want all people to judge your character and worth by. people are so openly shallow and generic i want to chunder on them. let’s just burn this place down and start again, we’re no good anymore.
i don’t aim to be mean or superior, i...
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The Access Maze
[Image: A fenced-off, back alley security stair in Toronto, via Google Street View; view larger]. A link on Twitter from Andrew Lovett-Barron led me to this otherwise innocuous fenced-in back alley staircase in Toronto, pictured here via Google Street View (view larger). There’s something oddly compelling about this minor architecture of out-of-place private...
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past dictates future.
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i saw this first hand today and i was watching in complete disbelief. my friend and i left as we saw some donning masks and the crowd reacting to simple things like drum and base suddenly being played - i mean, really. this was a chance to show everyone that we are serious and mature about our cause. instead it was treated more like a large scale social gathering. the minority has now left an...
It feels important to remind ourselves, at this point, that Facebook, our new...
– Generation Why? Zadie Smith The New York Review of Books (via somethingchanged)
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a must read
Cara Barer
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Bones of the Gigantomachy
In her excellent book The First Fossil Hunters, author Adrienne Mayor explains, in fascinating detail, how Classical myths of giants, dragons, titans, heroes, and other ill-formed monstrous beings often stemmed from a misunderstanding of the fossil record. After all, it was not at all infrequent for people of the time to have “striking personal experiences...
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