December 2010
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Escape Route →
The prison library gives inmates an organic way to connect to the world, to each other, to themselves as citizens. It’s a small democratic institution set deep within a prison, one they can choose to join.
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I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via heyireadbooks) (via libraryland)
Electronic info dominates George W. Bush's archive →
Archivists responsible for putting together the presidential library of former President George W. Bush are tasked with processing 80 terabytes of electronic information — 20 times the Clinton administration’s four terabytes.
The Bush administration e-mails alone would take up an estimated 600 million printed pages, said Alan Lowe, director of Bush’s presidential library and...
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This is what we do, humans. We tinker and change and endlessly imagine a more...
– Ira Glass, This American Life (via youmightfindyourself)
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In everybody’s life, there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a...
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl... →
A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An... →
Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely the burden of proof is on the believer. You started all this. If I came up to you and said, “Why don’t you believe I can fly?” You’d say, “Why would I?” I’d reply, “Because it’s a matter of faith.” If I then said, “Prove I can’t fly. Prove I can’t fly see, see, you can’t prove it can you?” You’d probably either walk...
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the...
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (via wereseeingstars)
Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So...
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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