Category: Miscellany
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By Mike Monteiro Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Let’s scratch our heads and give up and wake up and try it again. Let’s fail at digging the well the first three times to get it right the fourth. Let’s build faster horses, and then strap rocket ships onto them. Let’s start a company, let’s watch…
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By David Shrigley, from Sarah Boxer's Slate slideshow.
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Bay Area speed freaks, represent! This defines crazy. I have an adrenaline rush just from watching it. If you’re not feeling it when one of them screams “WHOOOOOO! DIG IT!! DIG IT!!!” at 6:59, you need a heart transplant. Thanks to SFist. Check out the topo map of the route.
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TimesToCome Mobile has an outstanding list of mobile-friendly websites.
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Killing me. Just killing me.
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Gen. George Patton on decision-making: "A good plan violently executed today, is far and away better than a perfect plan next week." Words to live by.
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I was reminded of this story by a funny post of Dr. Frank’s: On my only trip to Paris, five years ago, my wife and I were in a full Metro car when two men started arguing. We don’t speak French, so all we could do was observe them and our fellow passengers. The argument…
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Last week I read Kate Christensen’s The Epicure’s Lament, and it’s a deeply satisfying book, although the author loses the courage of her convictions at the end. Suffice it to say that Hugo Whittier is one of the more inspiring protagonists I’ve come across lately, all the more so because his specific predjudices and general…