February 2012
“In our Web 3.0 world, as we share our identities so publicly with everyone else,...”
– Does society benefit when we share personal information online? Or do social networks prompt us to publish unhealthy amounts of personal data, while little enriching our lives? Author Andrew Keen and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis lead the arguments in our debate.
(via theeconomist)
“If you gave your girlfriend a list of medications you can’t take with your...”
– The 4 Most Irresponsible Sex Advice Books of All Time | Cracked.com
“I can’t tell if you learned sexual innuendo from a 12-year-old or a rape...”
– The 4 Most Irresponsible Sex Advice Books of All Time | Cracked.com
“The closest she’ll get to fun on this date is when your pants come off and...”
– The 4 Most Irresponsible Sex Advice Books of All Time | Cracked.com
“A love letter, like almost anything else worth doing, ought to be, on some...”
– Rob Walker | Beautified Words | Observers Room | Design Observer
“Do the exact same words of love have different meaning, or impact if they’re...”
– Rob Walker | Beautified Words | Observers Room | Design Observer
“In a way, this silly little bare-bones reality show fills us with a little...”
– Tom & Lorenzo on RuPaul’s Drag Race
“There’s a reason why fat humor is so popular on the Internet, and...”
– The 5 Biggest Benefits of Growing Up Fat | Cracked.com
“A monster is only scary if it is somehow harder to kill than a normal person....”
– 5 Reasons Rats Are Way Scarier Than You Think | Cracked.com
“Even if some forms of partiality are inevitable, journalists betray their...”
– The Media’s Blinders on Abortion | NYTimes.com
“Conservative complaints about media bias are sometimes overdrawn. But on the...”
– The Media’s Blinders on Abortion | NYTimes.com
“All good books have one thing in common—they are truer than if they had really...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via pasigmom)
“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”
– Sam Ewing (via ninagarcia)
“The men who buy girls actually see themselves as purchasing a service to which...”
– The Superbowl’s Sex Slave Tradition | The Feminist Wire
“We don’t get a lot of information about domestic slavery – even calling it...”
– The Superbowl’s Sex Slave Tradition | The Feminist Wire
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being...”
– Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Grey (via skriving)
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without...”
– Edward P. Morgan (via lifebytheseaisjustrightforme)
“In Connorsville, Wisconsin, it is illegal for a man to shoot off his gun while...”
– Strange Sex Laws (via criminalwisdom)
“You should never read just for ‘enjoyment.’ Read to make yourself smarter! Less...”
– ~ John Walters in Role Models (via thejujubag)
