October 2011
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Let's talk about debt, baby. Let's talk about you...
53 percent of full-time undergraduates at all types of institutions take out a student loan. Including loans like PLUS, Parent Loan For Undergraduate Students, the percentage soars to 66 percent. One figure puts the average 4-year student loan debt at $27,803. However, more than 42 percent of those seeking a bachelor’s degree will incur excessive debt, a ratio calculated based on the...
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Researchers have found evidence for the existence... →
limething:
One of the most widely known features of a hypnotized person in the popular culture is a glazed, wide-open look in the eyes. Paradoxically, this sign has not been considered to have any major importance among researchers and has never been studied in any detail, probably due to the fact that it can be seen in only some hypnotized people.
VINDICATION
Part of me is definitely...
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I’m The Doctor. I’m a Time Lord. I’m from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous, I’m 903 years old and I’m the man who’s going to save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below.
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“I’ve always thought that we in the arts…are all ‘shoplifters’”, Morse said. “Everybody, from Shakespeare onwards and downwards… But once you’ve acknowledged that…when you set out on a shoplifting expedition, you go always to Cartier’s, and never to Woolworth’s!”
Barry Morse on the anxiety of influence and why The...
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And now, some brief thoughts on coriander /...
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I submit that having Kevin Kline, in drag, say the words “deep, deep pool” and “are you feeling sleepy?” is about the peak of awful things to stumble across when watching a movie for ironic value.
Gif by me, from The Wild, Wild West.
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Completely against my expectations, the new Looney Toons Show is actually pretty good. And Lola’s stalking music-video was amazing.
“You know, I’m thinking I should get a restraining order.”
“Those are so hard to enforce.”
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The Hemingway of Writing
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
Why I love Ernest Hemingway.
“You don’t have to destroy me. Do you? I’m only a...
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The theme from the BBC’s The Film Programme...
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The Doctor Dances
From the stupidly enjoyable “Pop Goes My Heart” music video. Gifs by me, from Music and Lyrics.
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“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be...”
– - A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman. (via faramirs)
I said it on the Nerdist Podcast, and I believe it. It’s as true for any area of the arts, not just writing. Perhaps it’s true for life.
(via neil-gaiman)
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One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while. Gif by me, from The Guard.
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About 5 years ago, I read Steve Wozniak’s memoirs on his start at Apple and his later life. One of the things that always stuck with me was the way Steve Jobs lied to his closest collaborator about how much they were paid to fix an engineering problem for Atari and kept the lion’s share for himself.
There was always a lot of controversy about how much of Apple’s innovation was...
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September 2011
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