January 2010
39 posts
Blair’s appearance at Iraq inquiry to spark mass... →
jhnbrssndn:
Thousands of anti-war campaigners are preparing for Tony Blair’s appearance at the Iraq inquiry in what could be the biggest political demonstration since last year’s G20 protests.
Riot police will be on stand-by around the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, close to the Houses of Parliament, as the former Prime Minister faces more than five hours of questioning on Friday.
The...
“Weekends are like sex. Even when they’re bad, it’s good.”
– my co-worker Patrick Strei, in reply to my “have a good weekend”, about 5 minutes ago.
TOTAL PERSPECTIVE VORTEX! →
“We don’t have to show the slightest respect for other people’s views...”
– David Mitchell
via samizdata.net
“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thetimelime)
“But I guess where I was originally going is that nobody wants to write endings...”
– David Simon (via dbreunig) (via soupsoup) (via wireporn)
5 deep breaths →
am i missing the uk?
or just the cold weather?
“Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He...”
– Ursula K Le Guin - A Few Words to a Young Writer
From off her website
“I think that artists are collectors figuratively. I’ve noticed that my eye...”
– Walker Evans (via claytoncubitt) (via unburyingthelead)
Stephen Hawking: "The Human Species Has Entered a... →
noahkai:
spytap:
This is a fascinating essay about what makes us human: our minds, our bodies, or the whole host of human intelligence which has come before us?
In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, “an external transmission phase,” where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed...
