W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via psychotherapy)
Soap&Skin – “Wonder”
Austrian singer-songwriter Anja Plaschg returned this week, following up the luminous rise and fall of “Boat Turns Toward the Port” with “Wonder,” a more subdued yet equally haunting preview of the new Soap&Skin mini-album, Narrow. Hear the meditative cut — due out in March as the record’s first single — above.
32 1.) Twitter Accurately Predicts Politician’s Victory at New Hampshire Primary
2.) Twitter knows how you will be feeling this Friday
3.) Did Twitter predict the revolution in Egypt?
4.) Predict the future yourself with Twitter and Timeu.se
5.) Hedgefund to make bets based on Tweets – beats the market
6.) Predicting and stopping the spread of diseases with Twitter
Note: All of these predictions are of the kind of collecting data early and seeing a pattern in that data in order to see what is currently emerging. That is just a small part of what we use the word “prediction” for… Not that it is unimportant but it might be problematic to call it predictions without to define what kind of predictions it is…
7 Go grab your headphones. Now.
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Winter Coat Rack.
Not that we need it, living in Texas. I’m just now making use of my light hoodie collection, and we still have heavy hoodie, light jacket, medium jacket, and heavy jacket to go.
JONATHAN BERGER, THE HOUSE OF THOUGHT, 2011 (SINCE 1980)
NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 1, 2011KARMAKARMA.ORG
absolutely outstanding. (via @tommcrae)
Trickle down economics: completely discredited and really only espoused by retards. It’s always just been an insubstantial fig leaf of rationalisation for the rich to embrace their greed anyway.
Great comment on Occupywallstreet
Ingredients
1 white onion
thumb sized piece of ginger
3-4 cloves of garlic
300 ml of vegetable stock
3 salad tomatoes. Chopped with skins removed.
1 sweet potato
small bunch of coriander
1 tin of chickpeas
1 tin of coconut milk
200ml of basmati rice.
2 tsp coriander seed
3 tsp of cumin seed
2 tsp of mild curry powder
1 tsp of turmeric
3 small green chillies
Method
Chop the onion and put to the side.
Mash the garlic, ginger and chillies in a mortar and pestle to make a paste, add this to the onion
put the cumin and coriander seed in the pan and toast them.
Remove to the mortar and pestle and grind to a fine powder.
Add turmeric and curry powder and add a little oil to form a paste
Fry the onion with the garlic, chilli and ginger until translucent then add the curry paste from the mortar and add a little of the stock to lubricate. Fry for 2 mins until homogenous, then add the chopped sweet potato and cook for a further 5 mins until the potato begins to soften.
Add the skinned, chopped tomatoes and half a teaspoon of salt and cook for a further 5 mins.
Add the stock and the coconut milk and mix. Then cover and cook for 10 mins, stirring occasionally.
Meanwhile, pour 200ml of basmati rice into an ovenproof dish and cover with water. Salt and cover with tinfoil and bake for 12 mins at gasmark 6
Remove the lid from the partially reduced curry and add the chickpeas, cooking for a further 10 mins.
Remove the curry from the heat and the rice from the oven. Serve and be happy.
(via infoneer-pulse)
good video explaining the credit crisis
Every time I read about New Yorkers being evacuated, I can’t help but think of this scene from The Wire.
