May 2013
9 posts
“As long as the focus is on these involuntary forms of circulation, we are not...”
– HENRY JENKINS
“our discussions of viral videos and Internet memes are often presented in the...”
– AUDREY WATTERS
“Nobody can guarantee that it’s going to be okay, but — and I don’t...”
– ALLIE BROSH
“Sometimes I start to relish the mindlessness of grading.”
– TIMOTHY ELLIOTT
“Rhetoric” has not always been a synonym for humbug. For most of Western...”
– RICHARD LANHAM. The Economics of Attention.
“The net is an unending NOW of moments and distractions and wonderments and...”
– CORY DOCTOROW
“Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go...”
– ― Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: First Series (via)
“Somedays, I feel like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty. I...”
– HANK GREEN
April 2013
16 posts
“An object is a slow event”
– Stanley Eveling
“Sex is a physical communication, but it needs to be proceeded by a verbal...”
– SHANNON HALE
“You cannot live in this city together. You must create a new city. Or if not a...”
– Paul Ford
“We’re a culture that values logic, resolution, and our own self-efficacy, so...”
– FRANK CHIMERO
“The more serious a system is, the more it needs to be gamed, if only to...”
– CODY REIMER
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself; much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“THE SELF IS A COLONY. THE COLONIZERS OF THE SELF ARE BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY....”
– Ron Scollon. “Plagiarism and Ideology.”
“Creativity is not a binary ability but a muscle that needs exercise. There is no...”
– CENNYDD BOWLES
“There is no magical point in time at which we changed into ourselves…”
– Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
“There is a real philosophical question as to whether anyone—any individual human...”
– Ronald E. Purser
“Our job is not to wow students with us or our brilliant subject matter, or to...”
– FRED KEMP
“…information is fundamentally tied to the recipient’s uncertainty about...”
– RANDALL MUNROE
“Imagination grows as fast as bamboo in the rain. The world cannot be...”
– FRANCIS SPUFFORD
“This is because digital content — which can be infinitely copied, shaped, and...”
– http://blog.fictivekin.com/post/46860403233/the-jokes-on-us
March 2013
12 posts
“While it is difficult to detect visual plagiarism, when it does occur it’s...”
– SARA HAWKINS
“For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are...”
– ADAM JOHNSON, The Orphan Master’s Son
“There is no cosmic mandate to make stuff.”
– JOHN GREEN
“The most beautiful and intriguing parts of any identity tend to be the fluid...”
– Michelle Dean
“I stay because as a Mormon I have experienced God in ways that I won’t deny. I...”
– JOANNA BROOKS
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because...”
– H. Jackson Browne (via thehappyprojectblog)
“Mise en place is a French cooking term that means “everything in place.” It’s...”
– AUSTIN KLEON
“The concept of the word hijab is a three-dimensional, and the three dimensions...”
– Nora Alarifi Pharaon
“As a young person, and even today, I always found comfort in John Hughes’s work,...”
– JOHN WARNER
“We must stop ranking both people and talents and accept the fact that there are...”
– EDWARD T. HALL. Beyond Culture
“the ultimate pointlessness of things should not be dragged up as an excuse for...”
– A. CHESLEY
February 2013
10 posts
“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given...”
– Edward Gorey (via wnycradiolab)
“Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and...”
– Victoria Moran (via intellichick)
“Not to say, btw, that some spontaneous text isn’t brilliant - but in my...”
– George Saunders
“Expectation is everything.
If I hand you what looks like a big, red, juicy...”
– Tailsteak
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Carl Sagan
“He was talking about cyberpunk. I’m talking about pedagogypunk. I’m talking...”
– FRED KEMP
“What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to...”
– Robert Brault
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be...”
– Thomas Huxley (via wnycradiolab)
“Despite a birthright of almost infinite capacities, humanity for much of its...”
– DANIEL AKST
January 2013
10 posts
“One, there are few things wrong that a good night’s sleep cannot fix. Two,...”
– DEB PERELMAN
“The ideal self is not a stable self but rather one that can perpetually create...”
– David Wolpe (via)
