randomWalks

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.


That’s something that sticks in my memory. It was kind of a sloppy job. It wasn’t doing what it was intended to do.

I’m using about 10 extensions to prevent tracking (NoScript, AdBlock, Ghostery and others). The functionality provided by these extensions should be default in a modern browser.

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(via Simon Birch | Design Milk)

When people at home see PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE THEM getting abused by police… That’s when shit changes.

While Amish dairymen are being raided by the F.D.A., Jack DeCoster, the notorious Iowa egg producer whose filthy, salmonella-infected eggs were linked to an outbreak that sickened more than 1,500 people last year, received a mild warning letter from the F.D.A. What is going on here?

The most successful civilizations in human history always had some way of readjusting debt so that you don’t end up in a situation where the big people end up effectively enslaving the little people.

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Sorry for the bummer (& that’s not me pictured above), but this site is scaring the shit out of me.

In 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Guss, a Manhattan therapist and co-investigator on the NYU study, taught “Psychedelics and Psychiatry,” the first course on psychedelic therapy offered at a modern medical school. Guss also directs the university’s 12-week psychedelic psychotherapy training program, the only program of its kind in the country.

A 71-year-old Wisconsin woman broke the Guinness World Record for planking Wednesday. Betty Lou Sweeney held the abdominal plank for 36 minutes and 58 seconds.

In one email sent by a dummy account using the name “Connor Erickson” with the subject “Arrested: need lawyer” Gmail populated ads for criminal and fraud attorneys. But when a user named “DeShawn Washington” sent the same email, Gmail populated ads for attorneys specializing in DUI cases.

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(via The Generalist: CASSETTE REVIVAL)

People who cringe at the privacy and data-mining implications of the Facebook Timeline ought to be just floored by the magnitude of Amazon’s opportunity here.

I just thought, This will freak everyone out. It’ll be so funny. I’ll announce that I am running. I told Leno I was running. And two months later I was governor. What the fuck is that?

I think the only thing that homeschooling left me at a disadvantage with is that I failed to learn to obey. Not that I think it’s really a bad thing, it just makes me unsuitable for certain jobs, religions, and other institutions.