Regarding Patricia Lockwood’s appreciation of @graeyalien’s tweet about Aaliyah.

‘when aaliyah "makes the decision" to engage in the bestial behavior of reaching compulsively for the first thing to appear in front of the field of her sensory organs, the bread of the material world, she ultimately dooms the flight.’

Transparent data itself is not empowering.

"He was condemned to death for telling the ancient Greeks things they didn't want to hear, but his views on consumerism and trial by media are just as relevant today."

A video by fiilmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis.

"Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it."

Great, of course.

That's what I'm all about.

Another one of these "How to Be Productive and Creative" lists, but they're good as inspiration/affirmations.

Jim Carrey as a genius, the "representative jester of our time." "Carrey’s dream sequence of movies is a prophecy, a warning that this clanking ego-apparatus in which each of us walks around, this fissured, monumental self, half Job and half Bertie Wooster, cannot be sustained. Out of his own seemingly bottomless disquiet, Carrey writhes and reaches into the bottomless disquiet of his audience."

"…also known as the Theseus' paradox, is a paradox which raises the question of whether an object which has had all its component parts replaced remains fundamentally the same object."

Andy Rutlege on the difference between creativity and self-expression, and the importance of a professional approach to creativity in design.

Or so says this guy. Basically, stop feeling sorry for yourself and getting wrapped up in your moods -- just go go go!

My thoughts on Clay Shirky's "Arrogance and Humility." Kottke's ping struck up a shared link storm today, two weeks later.

Can we ever truly know ourselves? No, and it would be awful if we did. "I think that life will continue to bewilder us for as long as we are self-conscious, thinking, feeling beings. "

"Ambigrams. Logos. Words as art. As both an artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions."

"Over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas." A collection of short sayings designed to break a deadlock or dilemma situation.

"Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage."

"Tibetan Buddhist Internet Radio"

"John Searle's thought experiment and associated derivation is one of the best known and widely credited counters to claims of artificial intelligence."