September 2011
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“The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑WORD↑↑↑
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“I was pregnant and a pirate,” Cruz says. “A beautiful experience.”
– The Dream Life of Penelope Cruz - Magazine - Vogue
“One of the things I learned from Wes was that unless he can do things his way,...”
– Waris Ahluwalia
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Sprezzatura
is an Italian word originating from Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier, where it is defined by the author as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.” It is the ability of the courtier to display “an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the...
The Cloud's My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem -... →
This is not a short reflection on my childhood (neither of my parents was the room-cleaning type) but a metaphor for the set of web services we call the cloud. We all know the feeling of logging into Facebook/Tumblr/Twitter/Netflix/Pandora/Gmail and realizing that the interface has changed. Maybe the company’s internal testing says the new interface is better organized, but dang —...
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“It’s funny how easily we get attached to someone we’ve known for a...”
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“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity...”
– Mark Twain (via quoteimpact)
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What's up, Zodiac? →
zodiacccc:
Contrary to popular belief, the sun sign is not who you are, but who you are becoming during this existence. Some people identify firmly with their sign and others do not. The variations are usually related to whether the moon or any of the planets were in the same section of the zodiac as the sun…
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