August 2010
61 posts
“Ordinarily, he would refuse the offer of a ride. But one afternoon, after it...”
– Stuart Brown, as quoted in Ray Monk’s Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
(My views on botany are more Wittgensteinian than Schopenhauerian).
“After a dizzying growth spurt — from three stores in 2003 to 103 in 2006 to 280...”
– The Downfall of American Apparel - NY Mag
Automatically generated by a broken metaphor generator.
“She asked me why I’m so dressed up?… I told her, ‘cause I’m not headed to the...”
– Kanye West (via putthison)
I often wonder if he’s on his way to give the keynote address at FrootLoopsCon.
Living near public transport can lead to longer,... →
asphalteden:
bobulate:
A new study for the The American Public Transportation Association finds that people who live in communities with high-quality public transportation generally live longer, healthier lives:
People who live or work in communities with high quality public transportation tend to drive significantly less and rely more on alternative modes (walking, cycling and public...
Raising the Dead, Outside Magazine 2005 →
Fascinating story about closed circuit divers 800 feet below.
(Unfortunately outsideonline does not believe in backward compatibility with old stories cut into multiple html pages, so this is a link to the print version.)
