February 2010
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“Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied”
– Josh Ritter. “Kathleen”.
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Lenten commitments
This Lent I feel that it’s more useful to be have a set of commitments to follow, rather than a guilty pleasure to give up.
This Lent I will:
Get back in touch with an old friend each week
Give blood
Get a donor card
One evening a week with the laptop, television and phone off. Print and live radio only.
Fence twice a week (up from the usual once)
Follow The Lent Experiment
Early...
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“[Windows Vista] feels more like a satirical cartoon about infuriating...”
– Charlie Brooker
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On suicide rates
twentysomethingtales:
There have been two more recent suicides by employees of France Telecom, bringing the total, I believe to 35 suicides in two years. I’m kind of shocked that the American media isn’t covering these latest developments. I’m kind of shocked that no one in the U.S. seems to know about this in general, either. (LeMonde.fr)
Whilst these deaths are tragic, and on face-value...
“What five letters spell ‘apocalypse?’”
she asked me.
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“This morning, I woke up thinking that if something is worth doing it’s worth...”
– Shawn Blanc. A Job Should Also Be an Education.
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“Poetry matters. Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to the...”
– Aimee Mullins
Am I the only person on the interwebs who doesn’t love (or suddenly pretend to love) the small literary canon of J D Salinger?
