The Human Trampoline: Archive

4 tags

“For two months now, Facebook users have been campaigning for the site to take...”

– Dear Facebook: Rape Is No Joke : Ms Magazine Blog

Sep 30th

27 notes

4 tags

Urgent Text to My Brother at 11:00pm

Me: Growing up, did we have an NES or a SNES?

Brother: Both. Being middle class rocks!

Sep 30th

6 notes

3 tags

Sep 29th

3,330 notes

2 tags

Sep 29th

247 notes

4 tags

“According to a large new study, women who drink caffeinated coffee are less...”

– For women, risk of depression falls as coffee intake rises - CNN.com Seriously. What am I doing wrong?

Sep 28th

1 note

4 tags

Sep 28th

416 notes

3 tags

Sep 27th

121 notes

4 tags

Sep 27th

86 notes

4 tags

“When you hold a book in your hand, nothing will happen unless you work to make...”

– Jonathan Franzen, from Perchance to Dream, his 1996 essay for Harper’s, which I mentioned last week. Interesting to find this quote in the afterglow of Facebook’s announcement of its “friction-less sharing.” Any physicist knows that it’s impossible to exist in a frictionless universe, and that...

Sep 26th

106 notes

5 tags

Sep 26th

28 notes

Sep 25th

1 note

Sep 25th

2 tags

Sep 25th

2,455 notes

Sep 25th

5 tags

Sep 24th

6,294 notes

Sep 24th

3 tags

Sep 24th

2,120 notes

3 tags

“Male squid, for example, pay no attention to the sex of other squid....”

– From James Gorman’s excellent New York Times article on the cheekily-named study “A Shot in the Dark: Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Deep-Sea Squid” (Oh squids…it’s a cold, lonely world out there, isn’t it?) See also: Smith College

Sep 23rd

248 notes

3 tags

nothing like a good solid stress dry heave in the...

sparkleneely: i can’t wait to have to excuse myself from explaining my own redundancy to go throw up. (i seriously considered starting my powerpoint presentation with “so you’ve decided to replace me!”) I know know this woman, but I’m seriously feeling her pain. Tits up, comrade!

Sep 23rd

24 notes

3 tags