December 2008
37 posts
Pay It Backwards: An Act Of Coffee Kindness →
imkevin:
peterwknox:
fareastmeetswildwest:
(via cakeface)
That is incredible. And I’m going to try very hard to remember this as I go home and my familiy starts to drive me up a wall.
Whoa.
In a sense, you can think of this as self-centered, but in a good way. Keeping your cool, maintaining your wuji is just like putting your own oxygen mask on in a damaged airplane before helping those...
“Do you remember the first time you got the 64-pack of Crayolas? You’d gotten a...”
– When toys were magical without being pricey
I loved getting new crayons…
(via derbygirl)
(via soupsoup) (via capucha)
Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage As Between... →
gina:
“The people of California made their voices heard today, and reaffirmed our age-old belief that the only union sanctioned in God’s eyes is the union between a man and another man possessed by an ungodly lupine curse,” state Sen. Tim McClintock said at a hastily organized rally celebrating passage of the new law.
I dare you...
livethelife:
…to take action. You know all those great ideas you have, all those people you want to reach out to, all those dreams of yours? Act on them. Ignore that little voice that says, “Don’t be silly, that would never work.” You’ve got lots of ideas. Some are big; some are little. Some are good; some are phenomenal. Today, choose one idea, whichever calls your fancy, and act on it.
Civic Literacy Test →
lfarm:
I got a 66.67%, which happens to be well above average. Thank you 2003 US citizenship test.
(The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%.)
via caitlinoppermann : joshmohrer: jackzerby
87.88% Yippee! Guess I did learn something in law school after all.
Fuck You, Penguin →
“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better,...”
– Jane Nelson (via skysignal)
“By treating our minds like storage units we never go through (but continue fill...”
– Jasmine Boussem in The Law of Subtraction (Huffington Post) (via juliaallison)
Watchzenhabits:
The Power of Less Video … a sneak peak of the website for my book, The Power of Less … share it with friends using the “Tell a Friend” button!
State of the Union’s Economy: Ads on Kids’ Tests →
nateritter:
The banks got a bailout, the Big 3 Automakers are begging on the streetcorner like pandhandlers, but when we force our schools to sell advertisements on kids’ tests we know we’ve sunk to a new low.
I hate the ads on tests (although at least they’re not as obnoxious as the infiltration of fast food & soda vendors in public schools), but what also struck me about the video was...
Dorothea Brande’s 12 mental exercises.
saradarling:
officed:
cakefordinner:
(From here.)
Dorothea Brande’s twelve mental exercises. Note: she wrote these in 1936, so you need to adapt of few of them.
1. Spend an hour each day without saying anything except in answer to direct questions, in the midst of the usual group, without creating the impression that you’re sulking or ill. Be as ordinary as possible. But do not volunteer...
Don't go to business school →
Seth Godin’s “hiring” for an unusual internship in New York, please reblog or forward to anyone you think might be interested.
Xmax: Less Is More →