March 2012
5 posts
Shanley Kane versus Geekli.st →
programmersbeingdicks:
A protracted Twitter argument about an embarrassingly sexist video that also serves as a convenient tour of some of the most common entitled-male-douchebag arguments you’ll find in tech (paraphrased):
Why the aggressive tone?
The women involved were consenting!
Geek women love us!
…as well as some more exotic and bizarre ones:
I bought you a drink once! (what?)
I...
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
4 posts
classicalliterature:
Sibelius - Violin Concerto...
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair,... →
salmanrushdie1:
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
December 2011
8 posts
“I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in...”
– I sing the body electric — Walt Whitman
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via offwithitshead)
“If every trace of every single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed...”
– God, No! — Penn Jillete
“If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for
thy dowry: be thou as...”
– Hamlet — William Shakespeare
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
1 post
“He had burned everything there was to burn within him; he had scattered so many...”
– Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
May 2011
2 posts
““They walked on for some steps in silence. Varenka saw that he
wanted to...”
– Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan (via clavicola)
April 2011
5 posts
Fun Fact
blogthoven:
Morse code for the letter V is …-, which is also the famous motif from Beethoven’s 5th symphony. It’s possible Samuel Morse chose this association because V is the Roman numeral for 5.
As a result, the letter V and Beethoven’s motif have become synonymous with victory. (It also explains the usage of Beethoven’s 5th in the film V for Vendetta).
March 2011
10 posts
Blogthoven: A List of Grammar Myths We Probably... →
mentalflossr:
Today is not National Grammar Day. That was Friday. But this article by the great Patricia T. O’Conner, which first ran on mentalfloss.com in 2008, is still worth reading.
When I think about the rules of grammar I sometimes recall the story—and it’s a true one—about…
February 2011
19 posts
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I...”
– Buddha (via onebiteatatime)
Starry Nirvana: Albert Einstein: "The Cosmic... →
starrynirvana:
[From Einstein’s Ideas and Opinions.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23220527/Ideas-and-Opinions-by-Albert-Einstein ]
“I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic…
“¡La hora del encuentro había llegado! Pero ¿realmente los pasadizos se habían...”
– El túnel — Ernesto Sábato
more songs than a song convention: Beethoven - 7th... →
moresongs:
“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.” -Stravisnky
Listen up, MoreSongs.
It’s 2011.
It’s time for some classical music.
I never get tired of Beethoven. I…
I went to see this a couple of nights ago, along with Beethoven’s violin concerto and the...
“Diré, antes que nada, que detesto los grupos, las sectas, las cofradías, los...”
– El túnel — Ernesto Sábato