RT @ashevilleraised: RT @h0zae: Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. (overheard)

bruisinales

Why the Financial Times won’t apply its paywall to a popular blog: “to interact with other financial blogs” http://tr.im/zoky

NiemanLab

imagine if Facebook and Twitter were in transportation rather than social networking…

Simon Dumenco

Though defensive violence will always be a ’sad necessity’ in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

St. Augustine

every day is exactly the same
every day is exactly the same
there is no love here and there is no pain
every day is exactly the same
i’m writing on a little piece of paper
i’m hoping someday you might find
well i’ll hide it behind something
they won’t look behind
i’m still inside here…

every day is exactly the same, tried to escape the last song’s addictive quality only to have this nine inch nails song lodged between my ears… & on repeat…

you got the most
but nobody loves you
nobody has to
just because
just because

just because, i’ve gotta jane’s addiction song stuck in my head

Google offers to open digital library to rivals: Shift in ground a week before US government publishes views and.. http://bit.ly/tW3Ji

financialtimes

RT @justincherry: “the church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” – Tim Keller

RedeemerNYC

New details on Steve Brill’s pay-for-news firm, Journalism Online, including what they’re charging clients http://tr.im/ykQ9

NiemanLab

RT @scottkauffmann: TK at #GCI: You have to deconstruct legalism in the church or non-Christians won’t know u r offering something different

RedeemerNYC

Do you ever catch yourself staring at your coffee cup? I do. http://tinyurl.com/l8xksu

swissmiss

yeah, just found myself staring at the bottom of my coffee cup thinking, i can’t believe the cappuccino is gone…

Authenticity comes from evolution, not from creation.

John Moore, marketing medic [via brandautopsy]

Well-selected letters, drawn with force and quality, arranged in good proportion, tone and color, and grouped … may be as fine and as complete as (any) design.

Sallie B. Tannahill, P’s and Q’s – A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement [via graphicology]

it’s a mature brand… the counter culture always becomes the culture… i don’t know if [rolling stone] is irrelevant… they’re still in business… they sell more than million copies…

music journalist, kurt loder [in this video] — regarding current rolling stone versus the old rolling stone

religious people… read the bible looking for ways to be the hero of their own life…

mark driscoll

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

T.S. Eliot (via crookedtooth)

75% of college students said they would prefer print to digital texts.

Students Give E-Book Readers Mixed Reviews – WSJ.com (via fluffynotes)

English language, give me a break. “Sanction” = to approve or to disapprove. “He sanctioned the deal.” #communicationfail

rustyscoop

For poets, painting is full of atavistic vocabularies. Painters, on the other hand, have always looked to poets to articulate what we might call their sublime backwardness.

martin earl, ‘poets & painters’

Painters and poets have been wed from the beginning. Language itself has pictorial roots.

martin earl, ‘poets & painters’

The best of the new crop are making use of both innovative form and linear narrative, producing poems that are at once relevant and accessible—in some cases even popular.

aaron belz for cardus

One person’s “accessible” is another’s “crass commercialism.

John Gallaher

Eamon Dolan, vice president and editor in chief of the Penguin Press, explained that [a book title has] to communicate the theme of a book almost instantly…. “the title is trying to do something on an emotional level,” to make the reader pause.

Eamon Dolan from TNYT