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Tue, 07 May 2013 19:48:14 +0800

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fitoraemusic: Snow Patrol // New York “Though...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:16:00 +0800

fitoraemusic:

Snow Patrol // New York

“Though there’s distance and there’s silence

Your words have never left me

You’re the prayer that I say every day”

junsabayton: BAYAW Partylist. #69 Huwag Kalimutan...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:12:20 +0800

junsabayton:

BAYAW Partylist. #69 Huwag Kalimutan #bayawpartylist @lourddv @junsabayton @alvingo13 @rarivera9

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Sun, 05 May 2013 20:29:59 +0800

Gardner. Will Gardner. Chicago’s Bad Boy of Law.

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:49:50 +0800

Gardner. Will Gardner. Chicago’s Bad Boy of Law.

inothernews: Don’t say “man crush.” Say “crush.” Don’t say “girl crush.” Say “crush.” Don’t say...

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:26:09 +0800

inothernews:

Don’t say “man crush.” Say “crush.”

Don’t say “girl crush.” Say “crush.”

Don’t say “bro hug.” Say “hug.”

Don’t say “You throw like a girl.” Because Jennie Finch, et al.

Don’t say “man cave.” Because that’s just fucking stupid and you are presumably not a Neanderthal and what the fuck do you know about caves unless you’re a spelunker? Seriously.

"Skyfall"

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:24:47 +0800

Q: Age is no guarantee of efficiency.
Bond: And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

the-majesty: Parisian apartment lust [x]

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:51:56 +0800

the-majesty:

Parisian apartment lust [x]

carlosceldran: The cutest 7-11 in all of the Philippines. #pila...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:48:03 +0800

carlosceldran:

The cutest 7-11 in all of the Philippines. #pila #laguna

the-absolute-funniest-posts: This post has been featured on a...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:34:31 +0800

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“Sweet like candy to my soul Sweet you rock And sweet you...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:22:00 +0800

“Sweet like candy to my soul

Sweet you rock

And sweet you roll”

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:12:40 +0800

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via crookedindifference)

"Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:46:22 +0800

“Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self-conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because; I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings, but it will always heal, even if you don’t want it to; it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It is up to you to find them.”

- Chuck Palahniuk (via hellanne)

staceythinx: Book art by Emma Taylor. You can buy photographic...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:22:15 +0800

staceythinx:

Book art by Emma Taylor. You can buy photographic prints of her work on Etsy and you can follow her blog on Tumblr.

"Breaking news is broken. That’s the clearest lesson you can draw about the media from the last week,..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:50:14 +0800

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Breaking news is broken. That’s the clearest lesson you can draw about the media from the last week, when both old- and new-media outlets fell down on the job. By now you’ve likely heard the lowlights. CNN and the AP incorrectly reported on Wednesday that a Boston Marathon suspect had been arrested. People on Reddit and editors at the New York Post wrongly fingered innocent kids as bombing suspects. Redditors also pushed the theory that a Brown University student who has been missing for more than a month was one of the bombers—a story that gained steam on Twitter Thursday when people listening to police scanners heard the cops repeat the student’s name. Though everyone should have been careful to dismiss chatter heard over the scanner, few did…

Twitter’s comeuppance could not have come soon enough. Earlier in the week, many social-media tough guys were calling CNN’s failing a sign of the times—proof that cable news couldn’t keep up with the Web. CNN was criticized for not taking the time to check its sources’ claims that the cops had arrested a “dark-skinned” suspect. The failure seemed in keeping with cable news’ inherent weaknesses. News takes time to develop, but because cable anchors have to fill up airtime and want to scoop their rivals, they’re eager to speculate and grab at any halfway credible sounding story they hear from their sources. Twitter, everyone on Twitter agreed, was better than that.

Then, a day later, people on Twitter made exactly the same mistakes. Besides the mistaken identification of the Brown student, Thursday night’s tweeters—including many local reporters covering the manhunt—couldn’t get straight whether one or two suspects had been arrested, whether the suspects were dead or alive, and whether they were light- or dark-skinned. Even more weirdly, many on Twitter were now making fun of CNN for being behind—for not following the news in the same slipshod manner as Twitter. By staying behind, though, CNN avoided the Web’s embarrassment. For all its mistakes, the network at least didn’t falsely identify anyone.

The useful distinction here isn’t by medium. It’s silly to say that Twitter is a better way to follow breaking news than CNN, or vice versa. The real problem is that both Twitter and CNN now depend on technologies that make it possible to follow breaking news too closely.

We get stories much faster than we can make sense of them, informed by cellphone pictures and eyewitnesses found on social networks and dubious official sources like police scanner streams. Real life moves much slower than these technologies. There’s a gap between facts and comprehension, between finding some pictures online and making sense of how they fit into a story. What ends up filling that gap is speculation. On both Twitter and cable, people are mostly just collecting little factoids and thinking aloud about various possibilities.

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- Farhad Manjoo, Breaking News Is Broken (via mlq3)

therivanqueen: “The answer to your question, Stephen, is yes.”...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:46:18 +0800

therivanqueen:

“The answer to your question, Stephen, is yes.” - Peter Jackson

#There are Tolkien nerds #and there’s Stephen Colbert

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:52:50 +0800

"I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:08:24 +0800

“I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.”

- Abbey Lee Kershaw (via meusvidaeamor)

"If you are caught in another man’s dream, you are lost."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:05:55 +0800

“If you are caught in another man’s dream, you are lost.”

- Giles Deleuze (via fuckyeahexistentialism)

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Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:59:31 +0800