June 2009
32 posts
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in...”
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or...”
– Confucius (via kari-shma)
If I Could Help You, Leonard Cohen
If I could help you, buddy, I would I really would I’d pray for you I’d make muscles appear on your back I’d take you to a bridge that people think is beautiful if there were the slightest chance that you’d like it I’d get you that motorcycle Id put your songs on the jukebox if you were a singer I’d help you step across that crack in your life I’d die for you on...
“Koodo Mobile, the Canadian cellphone company, has been running a widespread ad...”
– Via Erasing
I hate these ads. They have them hanging in Midtown Plaza, grossly huge. The one we have has a super-enlarged grin with super-enlarged brownish-grey tastebuds on his tongue. Really repulsive.
“we STILL haven’t become what we’re going to be. Pretty much every other city on...”
– Doug Coupland on why Vancouver is awesome (via vancouvrr)
“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the...”
– Rich Mullins
“Longevity—predominantly, though not exclusively—is the prerogative...”
– —Ayn Rand (From her introduction to her own work The Fountainhead)
I heard bookclub picked this book to seperate the “elite” book-clubbers from the rest, as it clocks in at 694 pages in petite font. To length—I say no problem. To substance—I am excited. So far it...
“Does anyone- I mean, really, seriously- have any idea what is actually happening...”
– internetmonk.com (via azspot)
“When people sit down together in a public place — a place where none of them is...”
– Civilised drinking (via azspot)
A song to fall asleep to…
velleity
xyzprincess:
wordjournal:
noun • /vəˈliədi/ or /vɛˈliədi/ • a mere wish not strong enough to lead to action
ORIGIN: medieval Latin velleitas, from Latin velle ‘to wish.’
Integrity and ethics are more important than...
azspot:
marco wrote:
Matt Mullenweg:
“That sort of company is not one I would wake up every day and feel passionate about working in.”
[re:] the AFP on China asking him to censor Wordpress and expose info about bloggers in return for unblocking the site (via nickdouglas, mikehudack)
Good for him and WordPress. Integrity and ethics are more important than dollars and traffic. (We’re...
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges 