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Choose Your Own Adventure

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:01:48 -0500

A rather thorough analysis of one of my favorite childhood pastimes…along with a virtual CYOA!

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give..."

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:27:21 -0500

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery (via mnmal)

via imgs.xkcd.com

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:24:38 -0400

via imgs.xkcd.com

zenhabits: (via onebiteatatime and fuckyeahzenmind)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:56:22 -0400

zenhabits:

(via onebiteatatime and fuckyeahzenmind)

passive-aggressive notes dot com — painfully polite and hilariously hostile…if not necessarily "passive-aggressive" notes from office-workers, roommates, parents, neighbors & retail slaves

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:32:43 -0400

passive-aggressive notes dot com — painfully polite and hilariously hostile…if not necessarily "passive-aggressive" notes from office-workers, roommates, parents, neighbors & retail slaves

The Year of Mud: Building a cob house

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:01:29 -0400

The Year of Mud: Building a cob house

40 Modern Nonfiction Books Everyone Should Read | Marc and Angel Hack Life

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:37:11 -0400

40 Modern Nonfiction Books Everyone Should Read | Marc and Angel Hack Life

You Are Not Trapped Inside Your Life

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:19:36 -0400

You Are Not Trapped Inside Your Life

"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:39:56 -0400

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

- George Bernard Shaw

"The earlier concept of a universe made up of physical particles interacting according to fixed laws..."

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:15:17 -0400

“The earlier concept of a universe made up of physical particles interacting according to fixed laws is no longer tenable. It is implicit in present findings that action rather than matter is basic… This is good news, for it is no longer appropriate to think of the universe as a gradually subsiding agitation of billiard balls. The universe, far from being a desert of inert particles, is a theatre of increasingly complex organization, a stage for development in which man has a definite place, without any upper limit to his evolution.”

- Arthur M. Young