David's Tumblelog

Jan
25th

Wed

Friends are forged in a great furnace, they are solid and light as titanium, complete with that impressive fatigue limit.

— Learning To Fly (Or, “Trying To Date Again After Divorce”) | BlogHer

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Jan
18th

Wed

“That was my job, I was 18 or 19 years old.”

Not a bad gig at that age.

“No. I was a pig in shit, man. That was as much fun as I could imagine standing up.”

— Fincher on His Role on Return of the Jedi « Binary Bonsai

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Jan
16th

Mon

In particular, nothing is unstable. Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it’s - it’s fascinatingly interesting.

— Lawrence Krauss On ‘A Universe From Nothing’ : NPR

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Jan
4th

Wed

urlesque:

One boy’s poem to his favorite Ninja Turtle.

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Jan
1st

Sun

In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has exploded while corporate performance has declined. “Maximizing shareholder value” turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure.

— The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes

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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

— The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com

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Dec
28th

Wed

bottomlesspop:

I don’t know much about Pokemon. I drew some based on how Madeleine, Nick, Anthony, Lauren, Lucy and Laura explained them to me.

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Nov
8th

Tue

You’ve made this switch with every jar you’ve ever opened. Not only without being taught, but probably without ever realizing you were doing it. How’s that for an intuitive interface?

— A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

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Oct
31st

Mon

I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves with—and labeled similarly to—their actual medicine. Telling someone who trusts you that you’re giving them medicine, when you know you’re not, because you want their money, isn’t just lying—it’s like an example you’d make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong.

— xkcd: Alternative Literature

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Oct
28th

Fri

So here we have yet again one of the most consequential acts a government can take — killing one of its own citizens, in this case a teenage boy — and the government refuses even to talk about what it did, why it did it, what its justification is, what evidence it possesses, or what principles it has embraced in general for such actions.

— The United States’ killing of an American boy in Yemen. The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son - Salon.com

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