May 2012
1 post
“The poetry shows that the Taliban are people just like we are, with feeling,...”
– Alex Strick van Linschoten - Taliban poetry book denounced by former British commander
April 2012
5 posts
“White socks and sandals don’t translate to “good design sense”
– Linus Torvalds - An Interview with Millenium Technology Prize Finalist Linus Torvalds | TechCrunch
More than a kernel of truth there.
Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Sitting Time and... →
This study aimed to determine the independent relationship of sitting time with all-cause mortality.
“With his usual generosity, Berlusconi has sought to help […] those people...”
– Berlusconi’s lawyer, Niccolò Ghedini - Silvio Berlusconi paid €127,000 to witnesses in trial
Prostituting prostitutes?
“His legacy are the generations upon generations of computer scientists,...”
– Martin Goldberg - Computer Legend and Gaming Pioneer Jack Tramiel Dies at Age 83 - Forbes
“It must be the unique area of science and technology where women have made...”
– Nicholas Pippenger - Giving Women the Access Code - NYTimes.com
March 2012
10 posts
“Just arrived at the ocean’s deepest pt. Hitting bottom never felt so good.”
– James Cameron - James Cameron reaches bottom of Pacific - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
That’s Avatar money right there; next step space trips with Branson?
“For some people who’ve been raped and had the baby […] something positive...”
– Society for the Protection of Unborn Children - Revealed: what children are being told about abortion
“Gaza is Iran”
– Binyamin Netanyahu - Netanyahu says ‘Gaza is Iran’ - JPost - Diplomacy & Politics
“many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that...”
– Why the world needs introverts
“Hamas is not part of military alliances in the region […] Our strategy is...”
– Salah Bardawil (Hamas political bureau member) Hamas rules out military support for Iran in any war with Israel
“The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine”
– Egyptian general - Egyptian army doctor cleared over ‘virginity tests’ on women activists
“Waking up during the night is part of normal human physiology.”
– Gregg Jacobs - Psychologist - BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep
“For this, I had to save for an entire year.”
– Kyaw Kyaw - Burmese punks are still economic victims of punk fashion - Rotten, Vicious Times: Burma’s Punk Scene Fights Repression Underground - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
February 2012
4 posts
“I could never tell my partner; he would hate the idea.”
– What I’m really thinking: the Botox user
“There is no way I will ever be party to a stealth attack on a sitting prime...”
– Kevin Rudd - Kevin Rudd Resigns As Foreign Minister
Sneaky Kev is sneaky.
“Skrillex is the inventor of “dubstep” whose sole purpose is to provide a “drop”...”
– Mark E. Figs - Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
January 2012
5 posts
“She loves good food, she always wants to eat in good restaurants, and the shoes,...”
– Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry on why he still performs in his 70’s - Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: “When I was a man, I was a cannibal”
Palestinian bookshop owner celebrates Jerusalem... →
The threat stemmed from Fahmi’s absence from Jerusalem for almost 20 years, which resulted in him losing his residency permit. Despite having been born and brought up in Jerusalem, he had been forced to rely on a series of tourist visas since returning in 1997.
“as he had access to the official monitoring reports, he regularly read details...”
– Undercover police had children with activists
“I’d rather cry in a BMW.”
– Aspiring actress and contestant on Chinese dating show ‘If You Are the One’ - China TV censor dating show
December 2011
14 posts
“its frustrating the BBC couldn’t think of 12 human female faces who have made...”
– Labour MP Stella Creasy - Pandagate: anger as BBC chooses Tian Tian as December woman 2011
Of the 12 “women” picked, a quarter were there for marrying someone and one was a panda bear.
“They have accepted popular [non-violent] resistance”
– Mohammed Shtayyer - senior Fatah official Israel ‘will launch significant Gaza offensive sooner or later’
Israel’s response to Hamas’ recent official policy change, rejecting an unending armed struggle and accepting non-violent resistance, is to prepare to bomb them. Again.
“A number of weapons have been recovered from the scene. Whether I’ve got the...”
– Detective Chief Inspector Mark Dunne (Metropolitan police’s homicide command) after boy stabbed to death at a Foot Locker during Boxing Day sales - Man stabbed to death on Oxford Street
“Twitter is a signal, just like looking at the words in The New York Times or...”
– Peter Dodds (applied mathematician) - Twitter math study: Happiness in decline | Great Falls Tribune
“He looks more and more like a Ralph Steadman sketch.”
– Dennis Perrin (a friend and former protégée of Hitchens describing his descent into drunken war mongering) - Salon.com » Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths Mobile
“Growing up in a large family never leaves you. I still catch myself looking at...”
– Eddie Naessens - Standup Comity - The Morning News
November 2011
23 posts
“For the person who finds one of the Jackass boys tying a remote-controlled...”
– Owen Weetch (University of Warwick) - Is 3D the medium of the future?
