Firefly in the Sky: Archive

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela’s 11:11 MP3 album for only $5 on Amazon? WOOO!

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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Lower Manhattan and Pseudo-Events | Notes From the... →

In the year 1962, historian-theorist Daniel Boorstin predicted in The Image: a Guide to Pseudo-Events in America that in the near future, actual events would lose their importance, and in their place, Americans would prize only pseudo-events, or events that exist solely for the attention of the media. And no event has any meaning or significance until it is viewed through the media. For the...

Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Where is my Mother? The Injustice of a Broken... →

Maria, 7, and Lupe, 3, are our next-door neighbors. For some reason, they have decided they like coming to our house. I’m not exactly sure why, we have nothing that I would consider appealing to a 3- and 7-year-old, but they come … almost daily. Because of this, and our history with their family over the past few years, we have gotten to know their story quite intimately. Maria, Lupe, and their...

Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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Elite Status and Self-Confidence | Notes from the... →

Everywhere, people seem to be taking out their frustration on TSA agents, and they are certainly a convenient target. But doesn’t the nonsense really start after the security checkpoint? My theory about the decline of airline travel is that the rise of the frequent flyer class has changed the incentives of both airlines and frequent travelers. One is dangling a gold watch to a select, but...

Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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Ironic, my dear Watson | Word Nymph →

Having apparently met that challenge, Watson will compete against Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter February 14 through the 16, 2011. The computer, named Watson after IBM’s founder, was developed by technologists and researchers from around the world. Jeopardy played by a computer? Must watch!

Dec 23rd

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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

– Albert Camus (via dysforia) So true. Though I guess I don’t really try that hard. Heh.

Dec 23rd

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Dec 23rd

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20 Things I Plan To Tell My Child, In No...

correlationstonone: You’re going to change in life. You are not going to believe that you are going to change in life. You will not listen when you are told, “You are going to change in life.” When you change in life, you will look back and say “I was silly to say I was not going to change.” Then, like an idiot, you will say “But I’m certain I won’t change anymore. This is who I am.” And...

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 21st

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Dec 21st

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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Dec 19th

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Dec 17th

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Meet the woman without fear | Not Exactly Rocket... →

SM is a woman without fear. She doesn’t feel it. She has been held at knifepoint without a tinge of panic. She’ll happily handle live snakes and spiders, even though she claims not to like them. She can sit through reels of upsetting footage without a single start. And all because a pair of almond-shaped structures in her brain – amygdalae – have been destroyed. Whoa. The brain is a crazy...

Dec 17th

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Dec 17th

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Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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So I lost one half of a pair of earrings while I was in India. Then today, I found its mate in my camera bag. Of course, I left the one I had in India. …

Dec 16th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 15th

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Dec 15th

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Why the 8 Hour Workday Doesn’t Make Sense →

Despite all of this, people will still work 9 to 5 and even search for 9 to 5 jobs. The corporate world has done such a good job conditioning us into to this that people fear the idea of operating outside of the 9 to 5. I’m going to go out on a huge limb and say that at some point the the 8 hour work day is going to be the demise of corporate America and the very system that has kept things...

Dec 15th

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“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”

– Sigmund Freud (via psychotherapy)

Dec 14th

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Dec 14th

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Dec 14th

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Dec 13th

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Dec 13th

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the patriarchy phrasebook →

humorlessfeminist: Patriarchy: ‘He loved women’ Translation: ‘He fucked a lot of women’ Patriarchy: ‘You’re a feminazi/ bitch/ dyke/ delusional woman/ whore/ desperate for a fuck’ Translation: ‘I am threatened by your argument and am scared of you and it’ Patriarchy: ‘Smile, love!’ Translation: ‘Why are you not deferential to my masculinity?’ Patriarchy: ‘I’m not being racist/ sexist/...

Dec 13th

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