randomWalks

I think it went way beyond constructive. It was an art form in itself. We were basically trying to see if we could get each other to drop out of school.

I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls.

It just really made sense that the human body was surviving without grain. Our bodies really haven’t had time to adapt to pizza and rolls.

It’s hard to talk to strangers in parks,” said Scott. “Because invariably they need $50 for the train because they’ve lost their wallet. And you’re like, oh, I thought I was building community.

UNIVERSITY CITY IS AN EXPERIMENT IN THE ROTTING GENTRY. A MASTER PLAN OUTLINED BY A COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE THE BASTIONS OF THE RICH WHITE LIBERALISM THAT HAS PERVADED THIS COUNTRY OF LATE. SPECIFICALLY, THAT MEANS A FLOOD OF PEOPLE BUYING HOMES IN WEST PHILLY THAT CAN AFFORD TO DO SO BASED ON THE UPENN WAR MACHINE’S GENEROSITY, ADDITIONALLY ENABLED BY OBAMA-VOTING, HYBRID-DRIVING LIBERALS WHO BELIEVE THEMSELVES TO BE OPEN-MINDED, NON-RACISTS WHO CAN SEEMINGLY SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE INTO IMPOVERISHED NEIGHBORHOODS OF PEOPLE OF COLOR. DISPEL AND DESIST THESE IDEAS, AND DARE TO RESIST. YOUR CHOICES ARE TIED INTO THE ECONOMIC MACHINE WHICH GRINDS US ALL DOWN, BUT NEVER FORGET THAT IN AMERICA “SOME [PEOPLE] ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”

I will lose. I will make mistakes. I will have shitty periods of time that are completely outside of my control. People I love will make mistakes, usually completely unrelated to me, or not.

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(via Dangerous Minds | Douglas Rushkoff: Taking Back the World)

What I found most amazing was the glimpses of Black service workers in those parts of the canopy where Whiteness asserts itself most viciously as the dominant cultural form: the hostess at Rouge, the doormen in Rittenhouse Square, and the security guards in the Center City office building. That’s where Anderson’s magic lies: in offering vivid glances into the often-obscure mechanics of social life.

Anderson calls these spaces “cosmopolitan canopies,” places where diverse people gather, and feel comfortable striking up sometimes surprisingly intimate conversations. “It’s really a point of cultural convergence,” Anderson tells NPR’s Neal Conan, “where all different kinds of people … call ‘time out’ on the segregated and sometimes quite contentious areas” outside of those melting pots.

It’s the outdoor cafes. All 213 of them.

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This excellent survey of pop deity origins begins with “the ur-god and his dark twin,” Superman and Batman. As Morrison sees it, “archetyped, pop-mythic tales of superpowered heroes and villains” soared into our collective imaginations in an explosive fashion. Superman, “the personification of a thrusting industrial tomorrow,” had a primal impact. Soon there was a pantheon of gods and figures from legend and myth: Hawkman (“an avatar of hawk-headed Horus”), the Flash (“the Greek god Hermes”) and Captain Marvel, whose magic word, “Shazam,” was an acronym: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury. (via Nonfiction Review: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human by Grant Morrison. Spiegel & Grau, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6912-5)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEDLAgu0yl8

Little Girl Plays With Dead Squirrel (by 3jeana)

Why has eating gotten so complicated?

Via: DegreeSearch.org

When I start at a new office I like to take a small copy of a famous picture of a sad baby monkey desperately hugging a “mother” monkey made of chicken wire, and I pushpin that through the cloth of the cubicle-skin into the cushiony sponge-flesh below. That is how I tell the world.

No one writing code said, “Let’s totally mess with his perception of self and understanding of free will.”

You don’t get into what happened a week after his original vision of Blake’s voice, when Allen tried to re-invoke it and ended up having a horrific, nightmarish experience. He took that as a lesson if you tried to invoke visionary states consciously, you didn’t always know what you were getting. You might get merry Krishna or grim Shiva.

With a great leap, I threw myself through the air and landed with one foot on the poor armadillo’s tail. In a flash I drew a long knife from the sheath on my belt and stabbed it in hard and quick into the gap in the armor at the base of the armadillo’s neck, cutting the spine and killing it instantly.

I use default settings in almost all of my apps… I really like the idea of experiencing the software as it was designed (or unleashed) by its creators, and sort of getting in the mindset of the millions of other people who use the apps.

As upper-middle-class consumers increasingly seek out healthier foods, fast-food chains are targeting low-income minority communities — much like tobacco companies did when wealthy and well-educated people began to quit smoking.

Kern had previously gained national attention for her comments three years ago that homosexuality is the death knell of the country, and a bigger threat than terrorism or Islam, and for comparing homosexuality to toe cancer. She did not apologize and was not reprimanded for those remarks.

Natural selection has produced only minor alterations during the past 10,000 years, so we remain nearly identical to our late Paleolithic ancestors and, accordingly, their nutritional pattern has continuing relevance. The preagricultural diet might be considered a possible paradigm or standard for contemporary human nutrition.

Research shows that even when news reports have been retracted, and we are aware of the retraction, our beliefs are largely based on the initial erroneous version of the story. This is particularly true when we are motivated to approve of the initial account.

That Hudson just wants to go!

"There is no point for me to be here," as the Kan administration had failed to listen to him, said Kosako, an expert on radiation safety.