January 2012
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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“Moral imagination is hard, and it’s hard in a completely different way...”
– William Deresiewicz
Dec 31st
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What a beautiful country.
Dec 31st
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I love this sound.
Dec 31st
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Zoë Keating: The Travels of Cellofamily →
zoekeating: I haven’t blogged as much as I wanted to this year. What with having a full-time career and being a parent, I suppose something had to give. But it’s been such an incredible year that I thought it would be nice to make a little a wrap up. The best I can do is post some photos. So here you have… I didn’t know that Zoë Keating was on Tumblr. Her music is wonderful.
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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China tests 500 kilometers per hour train →
(PhysOrg.com) — China tested a 500 kilometers per hour (311 mph) train over the weekend. Government officials call the record-breaking speedster a “useful reference” for China’s current high speed railway operations. The test train’s speed, according to a Monday report in China Daily, exceeds the world speed record of 300 kilometers per hour held by the Beijing Shanghai High Speed Railway....
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Simonini was not, it seems, unduly upset by the abolition of the Discalced...”
– Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery. 
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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imaginaryimageblog: A massive pile of Sharpies with the caps off, lighters, unopened bottles of red wine, and small animal bones in the middle of an empty parking lot
Dec 26th
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“Sometime after 2008, I understood that the process of expansion, integration and...”
– Jurgen Habermas
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Salaam America: What is Salaam America? →
khatman: Salaam America was created by Fatima (whom no longer has a personal tumblr, so if you would like to contact her, please contact the project tumblr) and Nissa. Mission: Getting rid of Islamophobia, we strive to reach this goal by meeting, interviewing and showing you, the… This project is impressive.
Dec 22nd
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“Yesterday is a tree with great spreading branches, and I [sit] low in its shade,...”
– Pablo Neruda, Passions and Impressions (thanks to yama-bato and kari-res)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Tumblr Art Francophones →
artchipel: • Tumblr art blogs: a4rizm - art & literature actegratuit - art |   Metz/Rome [*] amare-habeo - painting | Bourges [*] ARTchipel - art & artist | Paris chagalov - photo & literature | Montreal claudiaphares - photo & exhibition | Paris/Melbourne [*] coline-termash - photo correspondance - art | Paris dailyartjournal - painting [*] dailyfotojournal - photo [*] ...
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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jdotchiang: Base Jumping Underwater To Dean’s Blue Hole.  This is freaking sick. 
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“I go back to something Judith Butler’s been saying for years; some lives are...”
– Aaron Bady (via azspot) Hitchens wasn’t all that great.
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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A Vertical One-Night Performa
performamagazine:   Read More This looked wonderful.
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Politicalprof: My Night With Christopher Hitchens →
politicalprof: So one of the cool things that happens when you do what I do is that you get to meet and interact with some remarkable people. I have hung out in a bar with Cornel West; I have sat on a couch at the President of my university’s house and had a lovely and kind conversation with Noam Chomsky. (Both… Great story.
Dec 16th
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