April 2011
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Culture Vulture
Each time I pick up Outliers to read, I gain a new perspective by the time I put it down.
Today’s exploration led me into pondering how much our culture actually shapes us as people and how in turn, it can affect our successes and failures.
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Hey guys, a little something i created after...
March 2010
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February 2010
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“Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather...”
– Tim Parsey
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Schools Kill Creativity
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Sir Ken Robinson. As children we are never frightened of creatively exploring at the risk of being wrong, but we grow older our education system and culture aid in the unlearning of creativity and help children minimize the risk of being wrong.
Sir Ken Robinson makes the...
clientsfromhell:
A client called complaining that she couldn’t access the company website. When I get there, this is what she had typed in the URL field: “the company website”.
“Substance: You might make a good boyfriend not a good husband.”
– Melvin LJA
clientsfromhell:
Client: “We want a no-right-click script so people, by which we mean paedophiles, can’t save pictures from our custom gallery of kids.”
Me: “But the gallery has an ‘email me this picture’ form.”
Client : “That’s for parents.”
clientsfromhell:
Client: “We like the green, but it’s just a little too green. Can you use our green?”
Me: “That is your green.”
Client: “Oh, well it looks more limey. We want it more like our green.”
Me: “The limey green is your green. It is exactly what is used on your logo type.”
Client: “Oh, okay, well then can you change it by one?”
Me: “One what? Do you want it lighter, or darker?”
...
“I need you to make the website black and white but include as much color as...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“Valentine’s Day makes everyone romantic.”
– Reed Bennett(Ashton Kutcher) from Valentine’s Day
If you ever feel like God cannot use you,...
flybackk:
fairydustclouds:
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amberwalter:
Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar, Leah was ugly, Joseph was abused, Moses had a stuttering problem, Gideon was afraid, Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer, Rahab was a prostitute, Jeremiah and Timothy were too young, David had...
“I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star… I want people to walk...”
– Lady Gaga (via fuckyeahladygaga)
“Knowledge is learning what is arranged. Creativity is rearranging what is...”
– Melvin LJA
Ten reasons why a lot of my friends are boys.
frogreflections:
quackandwuff:
meggumi:
eulalola:
fearlesskisses:
ba—xy:
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kanaaduh:
caseybee:
1. They don’t carry around as much drama, & if they do, it’s normally at a minimum. Plus, they tend to want to stay out & away from it anyway.
2. You can talk to them about almost anything & you can trust them with more personal things, & best...
January 2010
38 posts
“Life was made sad so that we could find ways to stay happy.”
– Melv
“The measure of your enthusiasm is in the number of people already annoyed by it.”
Why We Kiss: The Science of Sex - Page 4 -... →
Scientific excuses to lock yourselves in a room!
