January 2012
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“It’s really sort of a sore spot because we live in what I call an age of...”
– Paul Newman, on being labeled a “rebel”
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Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would “do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”. He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture.
Because of Edison’s patents it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North American...
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Vicky: So why won’t your father publish his poems?
Juan Antonio: Well, because he hates the world, and that's his way of getting back at them. To create beautiful works then... to deny them to the public.
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“You’re still searching for me in every woman. You’ll always seek to duplicate...”
– María Elena (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
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“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
– Dr. Stephen R. Covey
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Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS... →
REDMOND, Wash. (CBS Seattle) – Microsoft has been granted a patent for its “avoid ghetto” feature for GPS devices.
A GPS device is used to find shortcuts and avoid traffic, but Microsoft’s patent states that a route can be plotted for pedestrians to avoid an “unsafe neighborhood or being in an open area that is subject to harsh temperatures.”
Created for mobile phones, the technology uses the...
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“Would you be interested in teaching English in Brazil this summer?”
– a text I just got
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“Peace is the absence of confusion.”
– RZA
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My BEST posts of 2011 →
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lol @ one of my posts having 0 notes and another having 10,513 notes.
and damn @ #11 is still being reblogged every day
December 2011
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