Is your status more important than their feelings?
Take a few minutes to read over what you’re about to say on Facebook; is it making you look big and someone else look small?
We’ve been working on cyberbullying awareness, and we’re pretty happy with the results!
25 Ways to Wear a Scarf in 4.5 Minutes! (by wendyslookbook)
I love everything about this video from the execution to the inventive scarf ties to the ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE girl presenting it. A + +.
npr:
The meteoric rise of New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has echoes of Tim Tebow, the Denver Broncos quarterback who caused such a stir last fall. Of course, Tebow was a college superstar at the University of Florida, while Lin played in relative obscurity at Harvard. But both began their pro careers as bench warmers. As their teams struggled, they were finally given a chance, and became overnight sensations as they turned their teams into winners. Here’s a rough comparison: Lin Vs. Tebow
Other similarities: I rely on NPR to explain to me why these dudes are culturally relevant. Now featuring data viz!
The Science of Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry
Tension, resolution, and the ever important “buildy-ness” (which is a term I invented but is accurate), these are the characteristics behind the most extreme emotional reactions to songs:
Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an “appoggiatura.”
An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”
Chills often descend on listeners at these moments of resolution. When several appoggiaturas occur next to each other in a melody, it generates a cycle of tension and release. This provokes an even stronger reaction, and that is when the tears start to flow.
There’s just about the most detailed scientific analysis of a Grammy-winning song ever at the link.
(via WSJ.com)
This is what Beyonce’s Halo does to me - I’m not musical at all, but I wonder if it has similar features.
1. Read
2. Read.
3. Read some more.
4. Read anything.
5. Read about everything.
6. Read enjoyable things.
7. Read things you yourself enjoy.
8. Read, and talk about it.
9. Read very carefully, some things.
10. Read on the run, most things.
11. Don’t think about reading, but
12. Just read.
Libraryland
I would also add 13. Don’t waste time judging the format, just use it all to read.
(via roundtripper)
LADIES. OLDEST SIBLINGS.
Tired. Aren’t you tired?
(Re)watching the first season of Mad Men tonight, and so many things are like thorns in a woman’s side (all props to the writers, etc.) and then it got to the scene where the newly married Peter Campbell is just back from his honeymoon and takes a call in his office from his new wife asking him what he wants for dinner — and he suddenly realizes (and says to his fellow mad-man) DINNER WILL BE ON THE TABLE WAITING FOR ME WHEN I GET HOME.
This made me so incredibly depressed.
Maybe it’s because I’m 47 years old and Capricorn and the oldest sister to all my siblings — but man it makes you so tired being the one to make sure everyone is fed and all the cabinet doors are closed.
But oh man — we all work so hard.
LADIES — if you are with a dude, when was the last time you got home to a dinner (of any sort) waiting on you? Warming on the stove? Drying out on the oven? ANYTHING?
Cheese toast? Pop Tarts? Anything?
Bring it, dudes. It’s one of the friendliest things you can do for your pal.
And wipe up the crumbs and close the cabinets. Don’t make us clean up the wrapping paper to our own present. I mean — come on.
We’re beat to the core.
(via debbiecountry)
My dad was an awesome person. He worked hard his whole life, and sacrificed a lot of personal time, to build a life for himself and my mom; he raised my brothers as his own, and treated me like a princess (when he wasn’t riding my ass like a rodeo clown to work harder, think bigger, and be stronger). I got to know him so well in my twenties, and was able to recognize and cherish the twin coins of my personality - what I get from my mother, and what I get from him.
Today (February 9th, 2012) would have been his 72nd birthday, and it’s our third year without him here to celebrate it. I love looking through these photos, even though he usually hated poising for them, and seeing the great trips and dinners and weekends we spent together in the last ten years of his life (plus some vintage baby photos thrown in).
Miss you, buddy.
Fuck your knit pouf.
OH MY GOD I HAVE A KNIT POUF. I have chills right now you guys.
