January 2012
34 posts
8 Badass Libraries →
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of the World's Most... →
The New French Hacker-Artist Underground →
The first experiment by UX, in September 1981, was an accidental one. A Parisian middle schooler named Andrei was trying to impress a couple of older classmates, boasting that he and his friend Peter often snuck into places and were about to hit the Pantheon, an enormous former church that towers over the fifth arrondissement. Andrei got in so deep with his boast that to save face he had to...
15 of the "Deadliest" Corporations →
syin:
Chevron : (then Texaco) discharged 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the rain forests of Ecuador without any remediation, destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and sickening indigenous populations. Chevron was responsible for the death of several Nigerians who protested the company’s polluting, exploiting presence in the Nigerian Delta. Chevron paid the local militia, known...
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society, 1989 (via catharinethegreat)
December 2011
37 posts
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese (via whyhellodear)
“I wonder if you knew how I watched,
how I crowded before the spearsmen—
but...”
– H. D., from “Loss“ (via proustitute)
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