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The Book That Changed My Life (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
Reading the book, I felt as if my mind was rocked by explosions. At times the ideas were too much that I literally had to lie down. (I’m not the only one to feel this way — Norman Finkelstein noted that when he went through a similar experience, “It was a totally crushing experience for…
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5 Design Books You Should Read — David McKinney
5 Design Books You Should Read — David McKinney.
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A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
While dad was in the Air Force we spent a year in Minot; I can’t imagine how much change had to occur for this comment about the fracking to be true: I lived in western North Dakota for the second half of 2012 for work. The light pollution is so bad that people get confused…
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Explore – The best advice I can come up with is this: Keep…
The best advice I can come up with is this: Keep your living expenses LOW. The smaller you live (materially-speaking), the bigger you can live (creatively-speaking). This way the stakes aren’t so high…you aren’t demanding of your passion that it keeps you living a rich life. Then you can stretch and grow with the most…
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Married To The Sea – 2,000+ comics by Drew & Natalie Dee – Updates daily at midnight
Oh, I LOVE IT. Married To The Sea – 2,000+ comics by Drew & Natalie Dee – Updates daily at midnight.
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Series: Buying good tools cheap « | Paul Sellers
There are many ways you can buy hand tools and related equipment, new or secondhand, and end up with really good results that will equal the best at a fraction of the cost. My blogs have alluded to this over the past year or two, and here are the nuts and bolts of buying secondhand…
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Vitsoe: Tidy Up Your Life » ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen Tycho / ISO50
Vitsoe: Tidy Up Your Life » ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen Tycho / ISO50.
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Secondhand Music – 97.04
Following a reference to “active anguish in a context of flux” (from this book) made on ep #110 of This American Life, Mapping, I was pleased to stumble upon Toby Lester’s Secondhand Music: I WOKE recently, in the unfamiliar and unfurnished silence of a new apartment, into a hyperawareness of the music around me. Without…
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10 or so questions from Ben Gran: Interview with Mike Draper, RAYGUN
Everywhere is what you make of it. Des Moines has great stuff that would be cool anywhere. RAYGUN would be cool in any city. I will put our humor and style up against anyone in the country. Gong Fu Tea would be cool in any city. Same for Eden, for Seed, for Domestica, for Ichi…
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Song Reader: Beck Revives the Romance of Sheet Music with 26 Illustrated Songs | Brain Pickings
Song Reader: Beck Revives the Romance of Sheet Music with 26 Illustrated Songs | Brain Pickings.