January 2009
193 posts
45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends →
“On Tuesday, January 27th, 2009, former AIG executive got sentenced to 4 years in...”
– What’s Wrong with our Justice System
“ABC News has learned that on Monday officials of the Obama administration called...”
– Citigroup Grounds Plans for $50M Jet
I just LOVE that line: “fix it.”
You go Obama! When I heard about AIG’s expensive resort retreat after their bailout I just shook my head. I didn’t even have the thought “our president should do something about it”,...
“We are bound up in a delicate network of interdependence because, as we say in...”
– Desmond Tutu
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me....”
– Thomas Merton
“Eight rules for writing fiction:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10.
What India Hates About Slumdog Millionaire →
The problem with Slumdog is that the Western world lacks a diversity of images about India and Indians that would make the success and popularity of a film like Slumdog more acceptable to the Indian public. When Indian films become popular in the West, they are almost always, with few exceptions, narratives of poverty or of long ago history. India is portrayed as either poor, dirty and backward,...
I Think they're on to me
I think the Tumblr crew has figured out that all my worthwhile posts have been coming from reddit. Oh well, there goes my 15 minutes of fame ;)
“Powder donut holes are a lot like the ink vials attached to stolen bags of...”
– (via keanefine)
