The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, cited by First Rate Intelligence « Only Once – Matt Blumberg
Comment éclairer l’intérieur des habitations de fortune avec simplement de l’eau et du détergent…
Crowne Plaza is trying to cut down on sleepless nights for its guests by installing a snore absorption room in its hotels.
Where the heck were you when the page was blank?” – Paul Butterworth
There is no place for just shitting all over other people’s work – (37signals)
“To be brutally honest we weren’t expecting [the number of children without their own books] to be so high. We know that book ownership in this country is really strongly linked to literacy issues and social mobility.”
via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/three-in-10-uk-children-own-no-books.html#ixzz1TEoZeKQD
A teenaged burglar near Chicago has been charged with poisoning the occupants of a fish-tank in a house he robbed; he is said to have explained himself by saying “We can’t leave any witnesses.
Burglar kills pet fish: “Can’t leave any witnesses” – Boing Boing
Un architecte de hong kong découpe son studio en 24 pièces (by pangjin)
It seems absurd that a Google Maps error could have provoked one country to invade another country, but that’s just what happened earlier this month when a Nicaraguan military commander used a Google Maps error as an excuse to invade Costa Rican territory, rip down a Costa Rican flag and fly Nicaragua’s colors instead.
1956 Ad Says Feed 7-Up To Babies (via 7-Up to moms: “Give 7-Up to your babies!” (1956) – Boing Boing)
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