February 2012
30 posts
Greenmarket Express →
oldflorida:
I know this doesn’t constitute an “old Florida” theme, but it’s refreshing to see someone in my town providing access to healthy foods for residents in lower income areas. It surprised me to learn that Westgate is considered one of 27 “food deserts” in PB County where healthy foods are unavailable within one mile. Many of the working poor can’t afford to shop for fresh produce and...
How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
incredibly interesting and also bloody freaky…
youmightfindyourself:
By CHARLES DUHIGG NY Times, Published: February 16, 2012
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know,...
“Despite the ubiquitousness of reinforcement and the documented benefits of...”
– Effects of extrinsic reinforcement for reading during childhood on reported reading habits of college students | Psychological Record, The | Find Articles (via timoni)
from 'Of a Poet' by William Harger
Being
Is knowing who you are
But not caring
If anybody else knows.
Being
Is happiness
Of such fulfillment
And delight
You need not display to others
Your happiness.
Being
Is soft and warm.
Being
Is creative,
And thoughtful,
And infinite.
Being
Is compassionate.
Being
Is everybody else knowing
Who you are,
What you are,
And your knowing they know,
And not caring anyway.
...
“I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value.”
– Robert Walser, The Tanners, trans. Susan Bernofsky (via proustitute)
“When presented with any problem, take the time to think about your own thinking....”
– Thinking About Thinking — D. Keith Robinson (via timoni)
