January 2012
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Anonymous asked: Your smoothie looks a bit rank, but its a shame you dont do more writing. You obviously have a way with words. Your musings on America are a bit pretentious so perhaps write your own thing based on your own life. Your archives show that you live in London so you must have loads to talk about - all those days and nights out!
November 2011
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September 2011
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, America’s prospects appeared as bright as the clear blue sky over Lower Manhattan. The price of Brent crude oil was $28 a barrel, the Federal government was running a budget surplus, the US economy was turning (albeit imperceptibly) after the dotcom crash. The most powerful nation on earth was at peace. - Lionel Barber writing in the Financial Times this...
July 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
3 posts
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Translations of Japanese Twitter posts →
一回の青信号で１台しか前に進めないなんてザラだったけど、誰もが譲り合い穏やかに運転している姿に感動した。複雑な交差点で交通が５分以上完全マヒするシーンもあったけど、１０時間の間お礼以外のクラクションの音を耳にしなかった。恐怖と同時に心温まる時間で、日本がますます好きになった。
At a congested downtown intersection …
Cars were moving at the rate of maybe one every green light, but everyone was letting each other go first with a warm look and a smile. At a complicated intersection, the traffic was at a complete standstill for 5...
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“The man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything”
– Theodore Roosevelt, quoted in ‘The Week’
February 2011
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sierrafit asked: ALSO! Check out this picture I took Fall 2007 during my study abroad: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cozumel18/1889088649/
It's the same exact market you photographed (I assume?) and posted a few pages back! Weird. :)
It's the same exact market you photographed (I assume?) and posted a few pages back! Weird. :)
January 2011
3 posts
I’ve just completed the process of transferring all my posts from Wordpress to Tumblr. I’ve given them all their original, retrospective dates so they won’t come up at the top here, but here are links to some of the final 23 posts that I’ve just imported which I’m particularly pleased with:
Facebook, or what is this blog about?
San Jordi
5 Inspirational movie...
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“Myspace reminds us of our younger selves – our first faltering attempts to define ourselves online – and we’re embarrassed by the memory. Our scorn for Myspace is really sublimated shame for the people we used to be.”
Luke Lewis in The Guardian today
I was on the MySpace bandwagon as much as anyone back in 2004-2006. I saved a copy of one of the carefully constructed, final incarnations of...
December 2010
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November 2010
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The secret of happiness
After years of directly and indirectly thinking about it, I’ve stumbled on the secret of happiness. What kicked it into focus was this article in the New York Times. The basic premise: keep busy. The opening line is exactly at odds with what Jay Jay Pistolet (who I finally saw in person last week!) says when he sang ‘Let your mind wander where it wants to go.’ - in fact,...
October 2010
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“At his trial in 2009 he described himself, in a moving apology to his beloved...”
– The Economist quoting Liu Xiaobo, the latest Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is...”
– Aldous Huxley (via harlemnocturne)
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This October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5...
sarahgraham7:
Thank God for that - I’m going to need every last second of those Saturdays and Sundays!
September 2010
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“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and...”
– Samuel Butler (via sarahcruickshank)
“Should financial success really be a moral imperative? Why do we think that an...”
– Julia Baird in Newsweek yesterday
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Sean Parker co-founded Napster in 1999, and later became President of Facebook, Inc., as it was being incorporated. In the upcoming film about the behemothic website, The Social Network, he is to be played by Justin Timberlake. Quite a CV.
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Derren Brown is blowing my mind once again.
It is one of the surest signs it is now Autumn.
“Happiness is finding peace within yourself”
– ! I think that’s it!
Onehelloworld sets voicemails to music, often...
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My legal hero: Atticus Finch →
Following on from this post.
August 2010
19 posts
Journalistic flaws →
Interesting article on modern journalism in the US. It is filled with many a pithy observance but here are a few to whet your appetite.
Too often [modern journalists] position us as savvy analysts of a scene we are encouraged to view from a certain distance, as if we were spectators to our own democracy, or clever manipulators of our fellow citizens. Weird, isn’t it?
Also, a point which...
springgreens asked: Just a quick question, are ye single? Ahaaaaaa
Pembrokeshire pupil's 13-year 100% attendance... →
Just for his Welsh stoicism