January 2012
15 posts
“If you tell kids that they can get a book with sex in it for free, that might be...”
– That’s the thesis behind Uprise Books, a nonprofit that is sending low-income students all the good books that have been banned or challenged to promote teen literacy, fight censorship, and halt the cycle of poverty.
Read on: How To Get Kids To Read? Give Them Banned Books
(via fastcompany)
Stop hypothesizing and get to work.
I’m designing a cool interface to post media for alternote right now. Last night, I was playing basketball reasonably late, but I decided that I would not sleep until I could nail out that posting interface. At 2am, I called it quits.
Why? Because I wasn’t at all satisfied with where my creative mind was going with it. It just wasn’t working for me and it was looking ugly and I...
“Failure is always louder than success. But there is an accumulation of all the...”
– “Princes” by David Levithan (via petalsquotesandthorns)
December 2011
33 posts
cacioppo:
defjamblr:
You are now watching The Throne.
mesmerized.
+1
Believing in humanity
I watched Charlie Chaplin’s speech in The Great Dictator (1940) earlier this evening. At the moment, I couldn’t say what the speech was about specifically, but what I could say is that in the speech, there’s two big things: spirit and belief.
These are two concepts I think are so important for me. I’ve kept them close to me at moments, and I’ve lost touch with them...
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must...”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via 3rd Ward)
jhnmyr:
If you want to be truly intimidating,
If you want to make an impact,
If you want to have strong connections with others
just be sincere.
Sarcasm is not an attitude, and it’s not a personality trait. It’s a style of rhetoric meant to be used occasionally to highlight a larger point. Saying you’re a sarcastic person is like saying your favorite cuisine is salt. Sarcasm is easy because...
“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called...”
– Louis Sachar (via totalentropy)
November 2011
24 posts
