October 2009
13 posts
A Language of Smiles
Interesting piece that posits the idea that certain languages might make their speakers happier. This is based on the well known idea that the act of smiling can go along way toward making one feel happy and that certain languages have more sounds that force the face into a smile-like expression (think “cheeeeesee”).
“It’s like I don’t know what I’m doing but I know how to do it.”
– Luc Tuymans on how he creates his work. From an article in the New Yorker. (via caterina)
“We’re used to the future turning out differently than we expected; it happens...”
– Also Clay Shirky, also from the #amazonfail post.
“Metadata is worldview; sorting is a political act.”
– Clay Shirky - from a post (can you call it that?) on his blog entitled The Failure of #amazonfail
“He thinks the future will be like rap music and computer codes, filled with Xs,...”
– Douglas Coupland (via Nicholas Nova)
“I mean lawyers, after all, don’t produce anything. They enable other people to...”
– Justice Antonin Scalia from an interview with C-Span
“If you’re describing something, and you find yourself saying ‘blah blah...”
– I think this is 100% true. (via 37 Signals)