January 2011
93 posts
Watchtylerknott:
Check out my friend Katie Roberts singing an original ukulele song she wrote called “Uninspired.” She’s in Portland and has a few gigs, most often at the Hawthorne Theatre Lounge. If you’re in or around there, seriously, get your butts in there and check her out. I’ll post the audio of this video soon too, so you can hear it. Head over to her Facebook and “Like” her if you’re so...
China censoring Egypt protests, are they afraid? →
caraobrien:
China has blocked the search for “Egypt” on Sina’s microblogging service, reported Al Jazeera.
Instead of getting results, users who search for that term are greeted with the message “According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results are not shown.”
Sina’s service is seen as China’s version of Twitter.
While the homepages of Western media publications are...
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this...
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Reminds me of the poem my Spanish teacher handed to us when a student said it was a hard language.
“It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand; it’s the world created by...”
– Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. (via gondorgirl) (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via shoesandsealingwax)
What's Happening in Egypt Explained (UPDATED) →
“I wish we didn’t have to go to the street to impress on the regime the need to...”
– Egyptian opposition leader (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Mohamed ElBaradei • Offering his take on the events that led to the current protests. While he’s seen as a possible new leader in the country, he’s not universally loved; others criticize him for choosing to live in Vienna instead of Egypt...
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is...”
– Che Guevara (via thenewfilo)
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“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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Today is my birthday! 23!!!!
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“You know, there’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I...”
– President Barack Obama (via mohandasgandhi)
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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort...”
– C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via mustamuseme)