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From Berklee:  Ben Folds, Damian Kulash, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman to Write, Record Eight Songs in Eight Hours.

Ben Folds, Damian Kulash (OK Go), Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls, solo), and author Neil Gaiman will write and record eight songs in eight hours (4:00 p.m. to midnight) at Berklee College of Music, Monday, April 25, and release them 10 ( Read more... )

CUL•TURE (noun) \ˈkəl-chər\:

• the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education
  

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From an entry in naamah_darling's journal, a quote from a recent dream:

"You can either attack me and I take you apart like a boiled rabbit, or you can help me kill those assholes and when we're done we fuck like nasty animals in the blood."

This lady deserves to have Steampunk airships named after her.

   Dr. Maeno pulls at the forceps; with her right hand, Orito pushes the fetus's head toward the birth canal.  She tells the maid to grasp the baby's arm and pull.  Orito feels the resistance grow as the head reaches the aperture.  "One and two ... now!"  Squeezing the glans of the clitoris flat comes a tiny corpse's matted crown.
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"Repetition is a form of change."
     Brian Eno


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Excerpts from Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth:

Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.

Process is more important than outcome.
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From TED:  "Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open."


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