December 2009
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Bruce Springsteen - The River
Not the biggest...
Aimee Mann - Wise Up
It’s not / What you...
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“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you...”
– Google CEO Eric Schmidt actually said that in response to questions about Google’s attitude to privacy. Now I’m aware that Google’s neither inherently good nor evil but I find this comment - unfortunate or not - deeply deeply troubling.
David Foster Wallace: All That
Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels—axles—which, as I remember, were thin metal rods. I’m ninety per cent sure it was a Christmas gift. I liked it the same way a boy that age likes toy dump trucks, ambulances, tractor-trailers, and whatnot. There are little boys who like trains and little boys who like vehicles—I liked the...
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Blur - Young & Lovely
Sorry guys, slightly...
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still...