I stole this from tom. The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. Here is the basic Proust Questionnaire....
'The best man is marred by faults,the worst is not without worth.' The Havamal 800AD 'The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.' From the leaked Global Warming emails.1255352257 12/2009 'A zoo has an African lion, the White House has...
"When your life is on course with your purpose, you are your most powerful." - Oprah "Have you ever watched someone do their job and thought, 'I can never do that. That's not me.' It's an important thing. To be able to determine what we can and can not do. What fits and what doesn't. Who you are and...
For those left wondering about what the hell the meaning of the ending of the series The Sopranos was all about, here is one guy who sums everything up in 100,000 words of less. Visit him HERE. Caution: ***SPOILERS*** For those looking to declutter their lives, a nice article on the 100 Item...
1. On footprints and forms. Debate about whether or not the MacBook Air is, or deserves to be called, a subnotebook or ultramobile PC exposes some of the philosophy of Apple. Steve Jobs said himself in the keynote: "there's too much compromising on less than a full size display, less than a...
For those Douglas Adams fans out there, a little SOMETHING...
NB: This post is still very much a work in progress. It's going to take a while to get all the links and commentary put in, but I wanted the full list to be available as soon as possible. Enjoy, and check back when you can! Well, actually, it's the top 120 titles, thanks to a 25-way tie for 96th...
[Post is still under development.] You may have noticed that I'm something of a sucker for reading challenges. And I'm signing on for yet another. Fortunately for me, this one does not actually require me to read 1,001 books. The challenge for 2009 is to read 10 books from the 1001 Books You Must...
Today I finished For the record: A Documentary History of America, Vol 1 By David Shi and Holly Mayer. I suspect that not many people can say that they have read this almost 600 page anthology of Historical sources from cover to cover but ... I am just weird that way. Not only have I finished it but...
I've decided to try and keep a list of all the books that I've read and am reading. There could be more that I'm forgetting and this list doesn't include most of the books that were studied in my Literature classes because I can't honestly say I read every single page of those books... Oh well, here...
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