May 2011
16 posts
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today’s loop.
Don’t feel guilty if you spend the first 90 minutes of your day drinking coffee...
– Nate Silver’s terrific advice for young journalists in the digital age (via austinkleon)
nickelcobalt:
“The hipster movement did not produce artists, but tattoo artists. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts.”
— NY Magazine (via mostexerent)
If current trends continue, the Department of Education estimates that by 2014...
– Malcolm Harris, in this devastating piece about the current state of higher ed, “Bad Education” (via austinkleon)
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes...
– Mark Twain, “How to Tell a Story” (via alaina)