August 2009
Flipism →
bestofwikipedia:
Flipism, sometimes written as “Flippism” is an imaginary philosophy, letting all decisions be made by flipping a coin. It originally appeared in the Disney comic “Flip Decision” by Carl Barks, which was first published in 1953. This can be seen as a normative decision theory, although it does not fulfill the criteria of rationality.
Two-face
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“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge...”
– Mary Shelley (via quotewhore)
“INVITATION ...”
– Shel Silverstein
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“Like captains of war, we’ll get followed to hell.”
– Bayside
“In a scene where nobody with any ambition is really what he appears to be,...”
– Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson (via weon)
Thích Quảng Đức →
bestofwikipedia:
Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. Thích Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam’s Ngô Đình Diệm administration. Police who tried to reach him could not break through the circle of Buddhist clergy. One of the policemen threw...
“There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you...”
– Henry Rollins
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damn things have...”
– Frida Kahlo
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
New Disaster -I Am Avalanche
A hurricane. A...
“Color my life with the chaos of trouble.”
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one...”
– Audrey Niffenegger (via quotewhore)
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via 52books)(via bryanboova)
“I don’t fear pain, life is an ocean of pain.”
– Frankenstein -Dean Koontz
“As he gazed at the sun-splashed ice pack, he considered, not for the first time,...”
– Frankenstein -Dean Koontz
“Every dream was a nightmare. None frightened him. He was the spawn of...”
– Frankenstein -Dean Koontz
“I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a...”
– Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) (via quotewhore)
“We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or...”
– Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) (via quotewhore)
A Canadian man has figured out it would cost...
fuckyeahfacts:
Rysvard Gold, a self-described Web designer and “outlandish thinker,” came to this daunting figure by calculating the amount of raw material that it would take to build a moon-sized space station, and multiplying it by the cost of getting this material into space. Gold concedes he doesn’t even consider not-insignificant costs such as labor and trekking the steel around once it is...
How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so... →
bryanboova:
givemesomethingtoread:
Out of sight in Carol Stream, 42 people move 60,000 discs daily with quiet efficiency. But don’t drop off your flicks there.
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
– Lewis Carroll (via quotewhore)
“I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word....”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via quotewhore)
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“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
Thousands of Australians during a national census...
fuckyeahfacts:
“The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my...”
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The stranger sang a theme From someone else`s dream The leaves began to fall And no-one spoke at all But I can´t seem to recall When you came along Ingenue I just don´t know what to do The tree-lined avenue Begins to fade from view Drowning past regrets In tea and cigarettes But I can´t seem to forget When you came along Ingenue
-Mono
