Edge is an online magazine that describes itself as ‘world question center.’ The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.Their annual question for 2010 concerns our dear friend, le Interweb, and [...]

JD Salinger died and this is sad.
In honour of his lasting legacy and with immense gratitude for having produced a book as wonderful and consoling as Franny & Zooey, I am posting (and re-posting) a few of my favorite quotes from this American recluse.
FRANNY: “It was the worst of all in class, though,” [...]

I’m thinking of renting a car, finding a driver-friend, and going away on a snowy adventure somewhere near nature.
In the meantime, these encounters with trees will have to do:

(I can’t stop listening to this song, it’s so cheery and the video so perfect for fantasizing about the summer.)

(sent a picture of my FCL-inspired doodle-card [...]

I miss this day in Stockholm.

Things I have done in the past 10 days: making (and re-making) a ridiculous number of work schedules, cleaning the house more than usual, decorating it with Roomie Extraordinaire, procrastinating on school work, submitting a slew of never-ending applications, celebrating my 5th birthday with the best friends in the world, spending quite a bit of [...]

Someone was  telling me today that I am “young and hip”, but I smirked at the accusation and rebutted with a realistic “my organizational skills probably disqualify me any hip categorizations of this kind.” And I guess that’s true, if they even have a name to describe the unrelenting type of  Moleskine user I am.

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Now that I am practically crossing the insalubrious 12-hour working day mark, here is a nugget of wow to make it all better. A mixed-media print by Kirsten McCrea, creator of Papirmasse Magazine and indie rock prints that rock.

Hmm. I’m in a drink-tea-with-the-giants kind of mood. If only it wasn’t -4 outside.

“…would connect turbines off the wind-lashed north coast of Scotland with Germany’s vast arrays of solar panels, and join the power of waves crashing on to the Belgian and Danish coasts with the hydro-electric dams nestled in Norway’s fjords: Europe’s first electricity grid dedicated to renewable power will become a political reality this month, as [...]

Life: Learning to cope with hope.
This, I think, is what my 2010 will be about.
(At least according to H-Pal.)