February 2012
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six types of love
Eros
a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart
Mania obsessive love; experience great emotional highs...
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Neil Gaiman: Where I wish I was going to be this... →
neil-gaiman:
PEN New England & The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library cordially invite you…
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Your very favorite librarian: Dirty words of 1811 →
yourveryfavoritelibrarian:
By Cory Doctorow at 12:23 pm Tuesday, Feb 21
On Project Gutenberg, the 1811 edition of Francis Grose’s “Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue,” a compleat look at all the dirty cussin’ of the early 1800s. It was produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed…
hitRECordJoe: The Inner Ring →
hitrecordjoe:
A commencement speech given by C. S. Lewis edited by hitRECordJoe original version here
The Inner Ring By C. S. Lewis
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude, however unlikely the conclusion seems, that you have a taste for middle-aged moralising….
Perilous: Target Corporation's obsessive... →
ageofperil:
When a Minnesota-area man received coupons for baby products from the Target Corporation addressed to his teenage daughter, he was outraged. My daughter is in high school, he complained to a Target store manager. Why are you sending her this stuff? Turns out she was, in fact, pregnant, but he…
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Watchdcu:
I don’t normally post full episodes of TV shows, but this week’s 30 Rock episode The Tuxedo Begins is filled with tons of The Dark Knight references and casts Liz Lemon as the Joker to Jack Donaghy’s Batman.
This whole episode was genius. The best I’ve seen in a while.
Watchneil-gaiman:
Just watch this. (If it lets you watch it where you are.)
“You’ve confused a war on religion with not always getting everything you want.”
