January 2012
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Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure...
– Source: “The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure” from Psychological Bulletin
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Fans have always spread the word about their favourite music – now they spread...
– Quote from the UK Guardian piece, “Why blogging strikes a chord on Tumblr”, on why Tumblr is a great platform for music, with some examples. Read the whole article here (via prostheticknowledge)
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December 2011
16 posts
The Rapture (7)
The Limiñanas (5)
The Kills (3)
Automelodi (1)
Class Actress (1)
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The visual truth of Barbie →
bobulate:
A group of Swedish neuroscientists determined that the perception of your whole body is affected by the size of your body image. How? By “tricking” people into being Barbie:
A research group at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has managed to make people feel as though they actually inhabited bodies of vastly different size — either that of dolls or of giants. The researchers showed...
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Billy’s Antiques →
Billy Leroy of Billy’s Antiques and Props prepares to tear down his tent on East Houston Street.
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November 2011
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Notes EM: this is how you start a takedown! →
evgenymorozov:
The first paragraph of Matt Cartmill’s review of Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions book. It appeared in the International Journal of Primatology (Vol. 12, No. 1, 1991)
This is a book that contradicts itself a hundred times; but that is not a criticism of it, because its author thinks…
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just pretend you're still in love with me.: House... →
A drinking game based around HGTV’s House Hunters and its international version? How have I not been doing this through every viewing (and repeats)? It’s already a guilty pleasure and, watching…
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uselesswithoutyou:
mrtresfierce:snapitsryan:howgay:
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Gimme Bar: Day Three →
gimmebar:
Day three. The midway point. Also known as the day on which we release our favorite feature: Backups. We know that when most of you think of backing things up you think of the dance floor so let’s take a second and break down what backups mean in Gimme Bar land.
We think of Gimme Bar…
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Babybird (19)
Moloko (18)
Ladytron (14)
Plastiscines (12)
Public Image Ltd. (11)
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THE GUN by C.J. Chivers: Have Your Photographs... →
cjchivers:
Jim Estrin, the co-editor of the NYT’s Lens blog, is organizing a visual time capsule. And he wants to see your work.
He sent along an email earlier today, asking that I round up a few readers who would be willing to submit recently made images, or images to be made in the next several…
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