March 2009
25 posts
Vipassanā (n)
A training to cultivate a non-reactive, deeply focused awareness of the present moment, absent of judgement of cligning.
HOW TO FIGHT →
claytoncubitt:
“Being attacked by a guy with a knife or a gun or some shit is fucking scary but it doesnt have to be. Heres three ways to avoid being hurt by sociopaths who have no regard for human life.”
“Remember: the only person who can sit on your ass is you.”
– Merlin Mann (Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship)
“Experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms [of government], those...”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1779
Doomed Nauru as metaphor for our Doomed World
“Nauru is a teeny speck of an island in the middle of the Southpacific. Once a bountiful habitat for 1,000 residents, in the past 150 years Nauru has been reduced to a lunar landscape of rubble. Novelist David Kendall tells the whipsaw tale of greed and shortsightedness, how phosphates made these islanders among the richest people in the world and how its subsquent depletion — by their...
“So it’s time to admit it: We’re fools, protagonists in a kind of...”
– The Big Takeover (via Global Guerrillas)
Watch“What if instead of planting a lot of these ornamental trees, we planted fruit trees. All over the city. We’d have free food everywhere. Not just “free food”, but really good tasting food. These apples are more delicious than any you could buy in the store. The ones in the store have been refrigerated. That changes their makeup, their flavor…” — Art...
Watch“Meeting Japan’s cyber homeless”
“Now why when you talk about the regulators, why not the financial news network?...”
– John Stewart @ Jim Cramer
Watch“An open source documentary about copyright and remix culture.” - RiP: A Remix Manifesto
“First we make a chip for every object. Then we connect them. We continue to...”
– New Rules for the New Economy
WatchMost of the internet is terrible. Tools like AdBlocker only go so far to remove unwanted clutter surrounding the actual content we fight to consume. Readability, inspired by Instapaper provides a welcoming reading experience - making the internet immeasurably less terrible.
