July 2008
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“In the end, hipsters are sold what they think they invent and are spoon-fed...”
– Hipster: Dead End of Western Civilization via rach
Tilly and the Wall - Nights of the Living Dead
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Emmylou Harris & Dave Matthews - Gulf Coast...
My friend, Adam, used to live in the garden apartment of Jhumpa Lahiri’s brownstone. A few months ago, I harbored a hope that I would take over the apartment. I’d seen Ms. Lahiri speak, but had never read any of her work. Recently, in anticipation, I read Interpreter of Maladies—her first book of short stories.
It was wonderful. But I left it with a question: she writes with such...
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“We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in...”
– Googleblog on July 25, 2008
I’m pretty convinced that I don’t really understand magnitudes greater than 10^3.
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Dead Right
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“There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and...”
– Ed Howdershelt (via hilker)
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“He had a booming voice, but it wasn’t so much the boom that struck me. It was...”
– Tom Wolfe, A City Built of Clay {Felker}
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“In the early 1860s, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., then a brash Harvard...”