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10
May
Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.
17
Apr
About the Author: Kathryn Nash serves as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.
On April 17, the first-ever Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), Rick Barton, will discuss how the bureau is…
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
I absolutely love this article from Scott Berkun on how to discuss politics with friends. This is the best step-by-step guide to rational and productive political discussions I’ve ever seen. FOR EXAMPLE!
1. What is the actual question being discussed? We often stumble into political…
13
Mar
This morning was a Terrible, No-Good, Very Bad Morning. I’m not going to go into the boring and depressing whys, but they include things like medical bills, the DMV and a rebelliously incontinent cat.
The problem with feeling depressed and out of control is that it is so, so easy to wrap those…
The dark hours of the day are when we think, work, and play. I love the night. The night loves me.
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Nacht
Gonjasufi - Change
Washed Out - Luck
Nicolas Jaar - With Just One Glance (Feat. Scout Larue)
Thundercat - Golden Boy
Grimes - Dream Fortress
Broadcast - Poem of Dead Song
Balue - Brain Folds
Beach House - Myth
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Every Night I Die at Miyagi’s
James Blake - At Birth
Molly Nilsson - My Dream From Last Night
Dorian White - Exit
Adanowsky - You Are The One
The Zombies - Call of the Night
Darkside - A1
Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices (Shigeto Remix)
Adele Goes Daft - Something About the Fire (Carlos Serrano Mix)
Gold Panda - Lonely Owl
La noche es mi novia.
10
Mar
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
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A Gorgeous, Face-Melting, Color-Saturated Experimental Video
People grow feathers and dissolve into grains of sand in Andrew Huang’s Solipsist, which took home the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short at Slamdance. Watch full screen in HD! With headphones, obviously.
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