January 2011
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Boom Town and Bust City: A Tale of Two New Yorks →
capitalnewyork:
By Lizzy Ratner for The Nation
“Indeed, the greatest threat to the U.S. economy may not be those costly,...”
– David Rothkopf on the myth of the innovation nation (via ericmortensen)
What makes America great is freedom, individuality, community, science, art, and social justice. Somewhere we exchanged freedom for credit scores, individuality for status, community for isolationism, science for theory, art...
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Happiness for me is not to command anyone and not to be commanded.
Look in the distance, do not look back, we talk unreason when we want always to know the reasons.
Envy seems to me to be the greatest obstacle to happiness for the French.
— Francis Picabia, 391 (New York) no. 6, July 1917
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Tik Tok (Blues Version) - Mark Lee
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“The Bible ends? I thought it was a cliffhanger.”
– Vinny
Tumblr keeps giving me an error message every time I try to post, reblog, or access my drafts.This is annoying.
“You know, I want to just advise people watching at home playing that now popular...”
– Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, ranting during this week’s House debate on the repeal of the health care reform bill. (via officialssay)
“Sha has coined the term “NoGIS” to describe the work of mapping technologists...”
– Zain Memon from TenderMaps (via Nestoria Australia Blog)
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WatchIn a cavern down by a canyon Excavatin’ for a mine, There lived a miner from North Carolina And his daughter, chubby Clementine. Now every mornin’, just about dawnin’ When the sun begins to shine You know she would rouse up, wake all o’ them cows up And walk ‘em down to her Daddy’s mine. A’took the foot bridge, way ‘cross the water Though she weighed...
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