December 2011
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The Joy of Quiet →
The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “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...
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“Gaming could explore the human condition by interfacing with the player like...”
– Jason Lomberg, ‘I’m Tired of SavingThe World’.
Just because it’s epic doesn’t mean that it’s good.
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Online Merchants Home In on Imbibing Consumers →
After enjoying a few drinks, some people go dancing. Others order food. And for some, it’s time to shop online.
Amanda Schuster, a wine-and-spirits writer and consultant in Brooklyn, says she never shops in actual stores after drinking, but she finds it hard to resist the Web. “It feels productive in a way — like I didn’t just come home drunk and pass out, I went home and did something,” she...
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Mixtapes of 2011 →
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Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in... →
“Sometimes patients tell us that they were doing some type of household chore in the nude when they ‘fell’ or ‘tripped’ or ‘jumped into bed’ and ‘landed on the object’.”
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Do your friends influence your taste? →
The Harvard researchers tracked college students’ Facebook relationships and measured how taste in music, movies and books spreads through social networks. It turns out that the degree to which your friends’ tastes and yours are connected has more to do with how you became friends in the first place than the force of that allegiance later on.
When it comes to taste, “peer influence is virtually...
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Pitchfork: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 →
A yearly affair.
My most important list of 2011.
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Do Nice Guys Finish Last? →
Overall, across the first three studies, men who are one standard deviation below the mean on agreeableness earn an average of 18.31 percent ($9,772) more than men one standard deviation above the mean on agreeableness. Meanwhile, the “disagreeableness premium” for women was only 5.47 percent ($1,828). Thus, the income premium for disagreeableness is more than three times stronger for men than...
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Hoxton Street Monster Supplies →
A Vague Sense of Unease
Effectively destroys all feelings of ease, creating a rising yet uncertain sense of disquiet. Invaluable for general uses in the home. Guaranteed perfectly pure and genuine.
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November 2011
29 posts
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10 Myths About Introverts →
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people. What they need is a reason...
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