August 2009
34 posts
“Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand has revealed a historic plan for Australia...”
– Cadbury Announcement | Fair Trade
Australian teenager around the world sailing →
“Jessica, 16, of Buderim will set off from Sydney next month hoping to become the world’s youngest person to sail solo non-stop and unassisted around the world.”
““Jesse Martin is an Australian sailor who in 1999 became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted”“
Jesse’s love sailing.
(born 26 August 1981,...
“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
– Cheris Kramarae - Wikiquote
“What one person may see as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make...”
– - Sasah Grey
NSFW: Gt7MwiARNnuw5v5pZlwahNfHo1_500.jpg
“you can write beautiful code for math problems because math is beautiful;...”
– @montsamu (via oleganza)
Volunteering
I volunteer too much and don’t get paid enough.
“One thing I would say so that there is no confusion out there is that this FCC...”
– FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (via marco) (via ragdoll)
Net Neutrality, a simple concept to explain to someone and everyone loves the idea at first but gets really complex once you make it a law. Network performance degrades because they can’t pioritise your VOIP or WoW packets over someone...
“The Unicorn Law: If you are a woman in Open Source, you will eventually give a...”
– gorthx (more on the Unicorn Law) (via gina)
This rule applies to all major minorities.
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the...”
– Frank Zappa (via bloopths) (via siddman)
My uni doesn’t get me laid, nor does the library provide me with education. “If you want to get laid, go on the internet. If you want an education, go on the internet”
The Impermanence, Karma, and Bad Behavior of Why... →
“Couples, fuck buddies, whatever you may be, I think if you try to come in a...”
– Sasha Grey — The PBLKS | The Publics
What happened to _why?
dhotson:
jack:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9c5on/where_is_why/
Twitter and github accounts are gone. All his domain names are resolving but not responding.
I’m guessing he’s not dead or sick or injured or had his accounts compromised. He’s probably just moved on to bigger and better. It’s great how he showed everyone how artful and...
“Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by...”
– April Foiles (via hypersexualgirl)
“Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.”
– George Santayana
(via hypersexualgirl)
“Yesterday, the developmental manager for gay youth support group Twenty10, David...”
– Abbott lame, gay churchy loser, says his daughter
“gay” is also not really synonymous with “homosexual”. David Moutou should probably learn how english works.
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is...”
– John Cage (via hypersexualgirl)
Yeah, thinking has problems like that. Good and bad, right and wrong, up and down, real and fake seem obvious until you start actually thinking about it.
Dissolvable bikini row – Around the World –... →
“A bikini that dissolves in water has outraged killjoy women’s rights campaigners….women’s rights campaigner Rosmarie Zapfl stormed: “It is an absolute insult to women that this has been invented.”“
I’d like to point out that the site also sells dissolvable swimming trunks for men….when you campaign for the rights of a single group you can...
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not...”
– Upton Sinclair
Ouroboros
magicmolly:
Complaining and its brethren—bemoaning, carping, whining—are among the most useless activities you can do. The grievance at the root of most complaints is an abstract one, like the weather or joblessness. Abstractions can’t be touched by complaining and complaining does not itself provide relief.
Knowing all of this—and everyone does—continues to make no difference.
July 2009
31 posts
“Trollope wrote for two and a half hours each morning before he went to work as a...”
– Trollope FTW! from Stephen King’s On Writing (via magicmolly)