November 2011
1 post
March 2011
4 posts
Just How Fattening Is That Cupcake? : NPR →
I calculated the cupcakes at work to be ~ 400.
February 2011
6 posts
Save PBS and NPR. →
Short Story Challenge 2011 →
8 days to write a new short story about a specific theme in an assigned genre. 24 hours to write a new story in the final round! Anybody else in?
Stanley Fish's List of the Top 5 Sentences in the... →
John Bunyan (from The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1678): ”Now he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it, began crying after him to return, but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, Life! Life! eternal life.”
In this sentence, Bunyan makes us feel the cost paid by someone (anyone) who turns his back on the human ties that bind...
January 2011
15 posts
“In fiction classes — or in the novelist-as-humble-cobbler image, writing...”
– Darin Strauss, Half A Life (via synecdoche)
nicolettefelice:
In California // Joanna Newsom
Jamais vu →
jesuisperdu:
Jamais vu (from French, meaning “never seen”) is a term in psychology which is used to describe any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer.
Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer’s impression of seeing the…
December 2010
17 posts
473. You can't drink champagne from the bottle....
The Best Dog Videos of 2010 in 60 Seconds →
2010's Most Memorable Game Show Moments →
A little late, but still good.
copycats:
Merry...
Procrastination, Netflix, and Psychology (via You... →
psychotherapy:
Netflix reveals something about your own behavior you should have noticed by now, something which keeps getting between you and the things you want to accomplish.
If you have Netflix, especially if you stream it to your TV, you tend to gradually accumulate a cache of hundreds of films you think you’ll watch one day. This is a bigger deal than you think.
Take a look at your...
BPS Research Digest: The 'smell' of other people's... →
September 2010
5 posts
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Rejected Silly... →
August 2010
2 posts
“Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that.”
– Erich Heller (via psychotherapy)
