December 2008
30 posts
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Not responsible for the catchy title, I must admit
Ants, like humans, are into career specialization, livestock herding,...
– Talk of the Town “One by One” by Nick Paumgarten
Julia, the ants miss you
James Murphy’s Favorite New Yorker Is Himself
What makes someone a New Yorker?
The ability to walk on the street with billionaires and bums. In driving cities like L.A., or cities where people are more spread out, you don’t deal with other “types” of people, which makes for some horrendous style choices. Here, you want a silly haircut? You’d better be able to stand tall with the 15-year-old kids who just got let out...
Me as I think I am and me as I am in fact — sorrow, in other words, and the...
– Aldous Huxley, via http://sdavenport.tumblr.com/
(clever kid brother)
Premiere episode of the second season of Flight of the Conchords!! My Christmas gift to you! No really, I’m so broke.
When I spoke about my mental illness publicly, I won great acclaim. I waited my...
– Carrie Fisher from her new book “Wishful Drinking”
There's something I just love about throwing... →
Jesus is such a Gemini →
IT’S an enduring mystery - and a source of equal wonder to scientists and Christians alike.
But an Australian astronomer believes he has answered the riddle of the Bethlehem star, even narrowing down the date of Jesus’ birth to a day.
June 17th, guess we have to move Christmas.
More on this happiness thing...
“…statistical analysis of the network shows that people who smile tend to have more friends (smiling gets you an average of one extra friend, which is pretty good considering that people only have about six close friends). Not only that, but the statistical analyses confirm that those who smile are measurably more central to the network compared to those who do not smile. That is, if you...
Laugh and the World Laughs Too: Happiness is... →
New study shows that happiness may depend on the happiness of your greater social network…