February 2012
25 posts
Every Day, A Century →
Really cool idea by @crocophant.. [Nearly] daily 100-word poems & stories. @briancbarth you might like!
How Wall Street takes advantage of the Ivy...
via Wonkblog by Ezra Klein on 2/17/12
In recent years, many top universities have tried to guide their students into careers other than finance. In 2008, Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard University, went so far as to give a speech to graduating seniors asking them to stand fast against Wall Street’s “all but irresistible recruiting juggernaut.” Tufts University is paying the student...
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John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74
Swimmers met John Fairfax and his 22-foot rowboat, the Britannia, in Hollywood, Fla., in 1969.
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: February 18, 2012
From the New York Times
He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there.
He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, spray and sinew, and the history-making...
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“If you’re rich, I’m single.”
– Sassy fridge magnet
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Why weren't you in my inbox about 16 months ago
XXXXXX is looking for superior talent for a summer internship in China. In this role, the intern will not only add immediate value to our work, but will also learn a great deal about our business and the energy sector in general. The individual will work with some of the world’s thought leaders in the energy sector and gain valuable hands-on experience.
Based in our Beijing office, the...
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Mandatory Valentine’s Day listening....
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Happy Valentines Day
“The worst resolution to the Valentine Prisoners’ Dilemma is when YOU decide not to give your partner a present, but your PARTNER decides to testify against you in the armed robbery case.”
From the inimitable xkcd.
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100 Points to anyone who can help me identify this...
January 2012
17 posts
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“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Kim Jong Il’s last words
Israel: Start-up Nation →
“Building businesses also requires people who are willing to be, say, the 50th employee in someone else’s firm. But in a nation of start-ups a lot of people want to be their own bosses. Talent risks being thinly spread. Mr Samid’s theory is that after their stint in the army many young Israelis have had enough of being told what to do. He reckons that three-quarters of the members of...
Dredged this up from the archives. 88 Lines about...
“I don’t think that my fashion can change the world at all, But I know that great...”
– Robert Geller Learning from the Best : Men of Habit (via keepsdiary)
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“From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and
imaginary lines,...”
– Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”
Dream 02
The two men swam together, churning the brown water. Tropical sun roasted the air around their necks and ears and faces. Their black hair had long since become hot to the touch.
Between them, a boxy, construction-yellow steel capsule floated just a few inches beneath the surface. It was shaped like an stretched-out hexagon, hollow and flat. Each man held the end of a thick rope attached to...
Tomer Hanuka | OVERKILL Limited Edition
Too much? Too much?
December 2011
13 posts
USA
Land of TV and the home of the ‘fraid?
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Create (something dangerous). Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued — but a derelict deathtrap to be detonated into oblivion….So dream laughably big — and then take an absurdly huge risk or two… Create something: don’t just be an “employee”, a “manager”, or any other kind of mere mechanic of the present. Be a builder, a creator, an architect of the...
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