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Monthly Archives: September 2024
Campus Life at
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Mostly when people think of sophisticated Africa, they think of Egypt. And even that they attribute to aliens.
~ Marlon James
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Apple Lightning connector was released today in 2012
The Apple Lightning connector was released today – September 12 – in 2012.
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The first Luddites were artisans and cloth workers in England who, at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, protested the way factory owners used machinery to undercut their status and wages. Contrary to popular belief, they did not dislike technology; most were skilled technicians.
~ Brian Merchant via The Atlantic
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Whatever the social effects of talk radio or the partisan agendas of certain hosts, it is a fallacy that political talk radio is motivated by ideology. It is not. Political talk radio is a business, and it is motivated by revenue. The conservatism that dominates today’s AM airwaves does so because it generates high Arbitron ratings, high ad rates, and maximum profits.
~ David Foster Wallace
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The concept of privacy is a sort of screen to hide the fact that almost none is possible in a social universe.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Campus Life at the
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The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic.
~ Eric Hoffer
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