August 2008
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July 2008
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Oil Prices: Who's to Blame?
dihard:
The big blame game is really getting to be too much. 77% of Americans blame the government for high gas prices, 75% blame oil companies, and 70% blame foreign oil producers, per a recent Consumer Reports survey. But all of those culprits pin the blame on another party. So, really, who is to blame for high oil prices?
Oil companies? Many like to blame big oil companies with their...
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6 Things You Never Knew About Oil
dihard:
1. Oil saved the whales from extinction. Oil’s first use was to replace whale blubber in lamps. That’s right, before oil, as early as 1645, whale oil was used to light lamps and blubber was used to make candle wax. Sperm whales had oil superior to other whales, and had larger heads filled with spermaceti, a waxy substance that made the best candles. By the 1770s, New England was...
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Using Math to Find Mr. Right
dihard:
Is he Mr. Right? Is she Miss Right? Don’t leave it to your heart to decide, let the math decide! Here are three mathematical theories with which to determine if your marriage will last (or should happen at all).
1. The Mathematics of Marriage: In their book, The Mathematics of Marriage, mathematician James D. Murray and psychologist John Gottman describe their use of calculus to study...
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connecting frivolous dots
Obscure meaning of my name: A lover of Poseidon Well, that explains my love of the sea…
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“You lose it if you talk about it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via whateverlolawants)
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“The term describes the manner in which our negative feelings are sometimes...”
– Narcissism of small differences (via merlin)
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“Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you...”
– Lillian Hellman (via onherway) (via sarahisrad) (via brocatus)
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Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write With Style →
cubicle17:
Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you’re writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead —- or, worse, they will stop reading you.
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“Reputation, Posterity and Cool are traps. They’ll drain the life from your...”
– Patton Oswalt’s commencement address at his old high school in VA. Read the whole thing; it’s really good. (via merlin)
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zacharyr:
“Like a lot of American kids, I read [Lord of the Flies] in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn’t get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were...
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randomly came across this...
T: I would like to see one black metal satanist go to a Christian hardcore show. He would get WRECKED! Nobody likes gothic kids anyway.
P: a christian hardcore show???
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marc jacobs's paris apartment →
via dazzlingdelta via aja
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“Everyone runs away to California once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people...”
– Madness: A Bipolar Life (via overit) (via aja)
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20 Abandoned Cities from Around the World:... →
onemoretimewithfeeling:
#1 sounds like the plot of a really awful action movie, but it really happened.
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“What you feel only matters to you. It’s what you do to the people you say you...”
– The Last Kiss
(via clarawalnuts)(via seagull) (via nudawn) (via antikris)
(via onemoretimewithfeeling)
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