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The Architecture of Space

To cope with complexity people respond positively to simplicity. Simplicity Sells.

— Ric Bender (via ricbender)

More Data Was Transmitted Over the Internet in 2010 Than All Previous Years Combined

How to get attention on the internet: Cats, cats, and cats.

“Here’s to the Crazy Ones.” Apple - Think Different - Full Version (by kreftovich1)

Comic Sans is not official

That’s why you always leave a note” - Woot®

FACEBOOK & YOU - Very Demotivational

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Draw a Stickman

The Computer Dilemma Dvorak News Blog: General interest observations and true web-log.

The Giving Tree Movie (1973), narrated by Shel Silverstein (by farpman).

Every time I try to read this book to Matthew, I end up fighting back tears.

Cult of Done (by spatulated)

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

— Composition. Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. Elements of Style

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

50mg:

Phrases We Owe to Shakespeare – via English Muse

Becky, a 20-year-old English Lit geek living in London, scribbled out this list in a Moleskine notebook at 3 am a couple nights ago. She posted it on her Tumblr page,

Ponzi Scheme vs. Social Security - By Veronique de Rugy - The Corner - National Review Online

This is another perspective on my other post on the differences between the two schemes.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Wikiquote