"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

via (so true!)

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Hmm…I don’t think you are allowed to call a CHALKBOARD “vintage” or “mid-century.”

iPhone Idea

Allow me to save attachments to my desktop (or perhaps even better, Dropbox) via Mail on the iPhone. That would be wonderful.

"Design for the system, not for the individual…it’s not about any specific user, it is about the network."

Facebook’s Julie Zhuo (via LukeW)

Digging Tumblr.

"Yet, as president, Mr. Obama and his aides have caved, leaving Sudan gloating at American weakness. Western monitors, Sudanese journalists and local civil society groups have all found this month’s Sudanese elections to be deeply flawed — yet Mr. Obama’s special envoy for Sudan, Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, pre-emptively defended the elections, saying they would be “as free and as fair as possible.” The White House showed only a hint more backbone with a hurried reference this week to “an essential step” with ‘serious irregularities.’"

Nicholas Kristof, “Obama Backs Down on Sudan” (April 21, 2010)

"If you do know that here is one hand, we’ll grant you all the rest."

Wittgenstein, On Certainty