According to San Francisco police, the 31-year-old city resident rode a bicycle up to a woman Monday afternoon in the South of Market neighborhood, snatched an iPhone out of her hands, and then pedaled away. Problem was, the woman was carrying the phone as part of a company’s demonstration of a real-time GPS tracking program. If the bandit would have taken a peek at the screen, he would have seen himself traveling across a map of San Francisco. Toure was captured a half-mile away about 10 minutes later, at 4:01 p.m., said police Sgt. Troy Dangerfield. He was booked into jail on suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen property.
— SFGate [via Luca Sofri]
Abbiamo preso Allegri perché è un maestro, ma ricordate che io sono un professore.
— Silvio Berlusconi
“CLEAR your screen and clear your mind.” That is the philosophy behind a new wave of dedicated software utilities, and special modes in word-processing packages and other applications, that do away with distractions to enable you to get on with your work. The problem with working on a computer, after all, is that computers provide so many appealing alternatives to doing anything useful: you can procrastinate for hours, checking e-mail, browsing social-networking sites or keeping up with Twitter.
I’ll tell you what: I wouldn’t want to write a memoir. In the first case, autobiography is a largely fraudulent exercise. People don’t understand their lives or what happened to them; they only think they do. In the second case, autobiography (or life) is artless. When I try to write autobiographically, I end up putting in scenes and events that blur the ‘truth’ of what I’m trying to write about. Bellow was good at writing about himself, but not me. I don’t know who I am. I have to transform autobiography into fiction, which means that I use my imagination at least as much, if not more, than my memory
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.
— Ludwig von Mises, Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow, p. 17 [via Alex Chafuen]
Perché noi poveri, voi e io, corressimo urgentemente in soccorso dei ricchi, tramite lo Stato, bisognava che i ricchi diventassero così colossalmente ricchi da apparire a tutti tanto necessari alla nostra sopravvivenza quanto il mondo stesso.
— Michel Serres [via 2+2]
A Modest Proposal for Improving a Dull Game
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I ladri di beni privati passano la vita in carcere e in catene, quelli di beni pubblici nelle ricchezze e negli onori.
— Catone (234 a.C. – 149 a.C.) [via johnjoejosh via tattoodoll via forgottenbones via beautifulcrap via emmeintumblerland via goddamnwalls via luciacirillo via pellerossa via falcemartello]
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