February 2011
77 posts
Contrary to popular belief, the best part about...
Khartoum accepts secession results - Africa - Al... →
Just in case anyone forgot because Egypt is dominating the headlines…Southern Sudan is IN DA HOUSE.
January 2011
136 posts
If...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not...
Egypt - Al-Jazeera Live Stream →
“The Egyptian people will take care of themselves. The Egyptian people will be...”
– Statement by Nobel laureate MOHAMMED ELBARADEI, the Egyptian opposition leader who joined in the protests in Cairo and was doused with water cannon before being placed under house arrest.
(via the New York Times)
life.
me: SLEEP
E: yeah
that's a good idea
i'll finish my app tmr
i'm so bad at this life thing
anquex:
(via millaneza, deanmadevarsity and...
damn little punk.
while videochatting...
[12-year-old-sister turns laptop upside down]
Me: How do I look upside down?
12-year-old-sister: Same. Just as uglyyyyyyyy.
Me: MEAN.
Mom: That's not nice!
12-year-old-sister: But he's my brother!! :P
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never,... →
inkless-pen:
For S.
People who use two spaces after a period are stupid.
THOUGHTS FROM THE POT: tumblr = curating an...
It used to be that a blog represented a personal journal - a repository for thoughts, a place to keep track of musings, opinions, and daily happenings - where the function of the endeavor was to record, to catalog, to experience a sort of catharsis. But look around any selection of Tumblrs and the definition seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
Many of the posts that pop up on my dashboard are...
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Watch31-legged race!
Such coordination! These children will be good Communists one day…
classesssssss.
Welllll, it’s a week into the semester, I’ve been to all of my classes and I’m still excited! Okay, that’s because I’m a nerd, but better to be happy about school than not!
Notables:
It’s a bit heavy on bio courses, but that’s a-okay with me! Done with the bio major after this semester (feels so weird to say things like that).
Last semester I (on...
Streaming video: Finally, a video game you operate... →
Why hasn’t this made it to the US? Eagerly awaiting the latest crazy Japanese invention… :D
Sorry ladies, this is a dudes-only product. Unless you’re really skilled or something.
Wanderlust: Penis worship in Bhutan. What's behind... →
Presented without comment…
DEF NSFW.
writing.
Not to toot my own horn, but I’m a pretty damn good writer. I’ve always been good with words, except for the time I cried in first grade because I spelled “computer” wrong (major fail, I know). Over the years, the familiar refrain has been: “Brian, you’re an excellent writer!” I’ve been told I’ve been writing at a college level since freshman...
On Overconfidence →
Confidence is so vital even for the mundane activities of everyday life that we take it for granted. But it also looms large whenever we try to explain achievements that are out of the ordinary. Confidence is widely held to be an almost magic ingredient of success in sports, entertainment, business, the stock market, combat and many other domains—would Donald Trump, Muhammad Ali, and General...
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What the science of human nature can teach us :... →
A core finding of this work is that we are not primarily the products of our conscious thinking. The conscious mind gives us one way of making sense of our environment. But the unconscious mind gives us other, more supple ways. The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason,...
