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“ Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Yesterday I was chatting with an acquaintance and some point something was said near the form of:

“Just ask yourself if you’re happy.”

Well, I had ended up asking myself that earlier today and decided that, yes, I am happy. Now from seeing this quote I can say that, sure, in my moment of inquiry I was not strictly happy. This quote seems buddhist. Now I can laugh. hahaha.

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I’m writing this during probably my last use of my own internet connection. By tomorrow it should be off and I’ll be taking my internet in sips at cibercafes. This is going to be an experiment in making sure it’s not too easy to be distracted by the internet. I imagine I’m still going to need it just about daily but this should make sure my use is more focused. Not that I’ve been posting here but I felt like I should mark the moment and say not to expect too much around here either.

Although, my plan is to get my ass in gear in a number of ways and that should perhaps help me have more to report and maybe even the time and discipline to do it here. I’m just not making any promises about that part.

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» Running the Numbers II

Recent work from Chris Jordan. It’s based around some specific large quantities that are produced as an effect of current world society. Amazing work and a great way to give those numbers significance.

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Mushrooms are our best bros.

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A look at how we are doing in the fight against cocaine from Colombia. Basically we’re spending a whole lot of money and spreading even more grief.

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I have mustache for my mustache. Or maybe it’s not a mustache but a mustlaugh.

I’m proud of this little Sunday diversion but it’ll probably be gone before tomorrow.

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A bit fiery but the guy has a point about the deplorable state of design in our public spaces. I like how he refers to them at one point as “the physical manifestation of the common good”.

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» book review: The globalisation of addiction

science:

Addiction, the scientist Bruce Alexander maintains, is more of a social than a chemical problem. When he built a rat colony based on rats’ needs rather than those of the researchers — rat heaven, if you will — he discovered that not only did rats’ addiction to drugs such as opiates disappear, the rats would rather suffer withdrawal than relapse even when forcibly addicted. The results haven’t exactly taken a prominent role in our view of addiction. It just might be they should. (via)

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“ We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.

— Tom Waits

In reply to the question “What’s wrong with the world” from this interview

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