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• For All The Things That Has Happened To Me

  
  Nothing Is What It Seems — Authority: 121
  honestly, how should i not hate life and those who make it displeasurable for me. so many fakers, users, jealous ppl, arrogant ppl and the list can go on. seriously, the rubbish ive been put through, its amazing. it sucks when u know its not in your head. and other ppl actually agree that the things that happen in ...
  19 hours ago

• The Magic of Metaphor - Plus - 20% to 40% Clearance Sale Savings!

  
  NLP Comprehensive — Authority: 106
  Magical Metaphors and Clearance Sale - 20% to 40% SavingsStories for ChangeMetaphors are one of the coolest and most flexible ways to use NLP.  An NLP metaphor is simple a story with embedded NLP processes of suggestions for change. (...)
  3 days ago

• Ennui and Anomie and Accidie, Oh My!

  
  This Is So Gay — Authority: 118
  I think that one reason I havent been able to write anything lately is that Im grappling with a large problem, and my mind has been circling around it for more than a week. (Specifically, its the problem of social construction theory, which in practice seems to intersect with "relativism" both in morals and in ...
  1 week ago

• SFP Radio Presents The Cast & Crew Of Batman Metaphors

  
  SciFi Pulse — Authority: 145
  BatmanMetaphorsTonight SciFi Pulse Radio brings you the cast and crew of the new fan film Batman Metaphors, which is a professionally produced fan film that acts as an unofficial sequel to Batman: Dark Knight.
  1 week ago

• I Cant Wait To Go Home!

  
  Nothing Is What It Seems — Authority: 121
  >;D Currently Listening To: Hello Hurricane - Switchfoot
  1 week ago

• Using Statistics in Nonprofit Marketing Webinar

  
  Free Webinar News — Authority: 135
  Kivi Leroux Miller is having a webinar on ‘Better Ways to Use Statistics in Your Nonprofit Marketing’. According to Kivi, this webinar will focus on the following topics: -How to select the statistics that best tell your story – and avoid “numbers dumps” and stats that can mislead your supporters ...
  1 week ago

• Can This New ‘Avatar’ Trailer Turn It All Around?

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 660
  There was almost no way for any film to survive under the crushing weight of the hype that Avatar has strapped around its neck, and since the marketing department fumbled the ball time after time, the buzz about the film at this point is probably not exactly the brand that James Cameron would hope for. Especially ...
  1 week ago

• Many Voices

  
  Living on the Lip of Insanity — Authority: 106
  October continues treating us with passion and gentleness as befits this time of year. There are few people that I know (outside of my classical musician neighbors) who might totally geek out with me about this piece of music. But I’m going to share it with you and the tiny little glimmer of hope that it gives me. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Baseball is Creepy!

  
  Shades of Gray — Authority: 404
  The baseball metaphor, that is. While messing around on the intarwebs tonight, I came across this article about finding a positive sexual metaphor. I’d highly recommend that everyone go take a look! In the first part of the article, the author examines baseball as a metaphor for sex in American culture, and just ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Great Quote on Books

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Voltaire : The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.
  2 weeks ago

• Random Inspirations: The Hedge

  
  Authspot — Authority: 513
  Image via Wikipedia It’s strange, the lessons we learn in life and where they come from. Today I was trimming the hedge that runs the length of my garden just to the left of my backdoor. It hadn’t been cut in a long time and was getting extremely unruly; growing in all directions. I had the option of using the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just Because You Can, Definitely Means You Should Apparently

  
  Nothing Is What It Seems — Authority: 121
  k Ben seriously. dont go there. yes its very easy and you can def get it in a snap. its all laid out nicely for you to just say the right things and pick up. but, you know what will happen if you do. you pretty much got it wrapped around your finger and are in control. but just because you can, doesnt mean you ...
  2 weeks ago

• Warring Wage

  
  Stump Lane — Authority: 420
  WAR, AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY, is hell. J.R. Boyd reports that behind the subscription wall at the online Wall Street Journal, economic adviser to the president, Lawrence Summers has things to say about Wall Street profits and executive bonuses (bonii?) Is this your homework, Larry? “Just as in war, there are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Visual Journal: Game Show

  
  Living Creatively Ever After — Authority: 127
  There are times when an epiphany just makes everything clearer in my life. It occured to me while doing the most mundane thing on earth – wiping a mahogany table with washcloth.I realise that my relationships with people are like a game show. Like the one that is shown every noontime just before the variety [...]
  2 weeks ago

• day sixty-four: referred pain

  
  Kazzy's Ponderings — Authority: 127
  Today a neighbor (that I think is as distinguished and genuine as any man has a right to be) came over to visit my convalescing son. As he stood beside boy #3s bed during our visit he shared with us an experience he had years ago. He was using a paper cutter to destroy some old check books when he accidentally ...
  2 weeks ago

• Album review: Royce Da 5′9″ – ‘Street Hop’ (MIC/One)

  
  Talk Stories — Authority: 155
  Since first catching the attention of the hip-hop masses by dropping rewind-worthy verses next to fellow Detroit native Eminem, Royce Da 5′9″ has steadily built a loyal legion of fans that hang on his every lyric. Continuing to supply the thirsty throngs of hip-hoppers with even more Motor City metaphors, Royce ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Great Smithian Metaphor

  
  Adam Smith's Lost Legacy — Authority: 129
  Peter Boettke writes in The Austrian Economists ( HERE ): “Is Adam Smiths discussion of governmental "juggling trick" relevant to our policy discourse today? Scott has already talked about this at The Economic Way of Thinking, but we should dig a bit deeper into the discussion from Smiths Wealth of Nations, ...
  2 weeks ago

• A battle, a race, a journey, a dream, how do you see life?

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 443
  Differing circumstances and outlooks affect the way people describe life , with most using the word “journey” to sum up the experience. The responses … were provided to participants and are well-known life metaphors from Western culture. For example, life as a journey is from Homer’s Odyssey (and the Epic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surf’s Up: Top Creativity Links for October 20, 2009

  
  Creative Liberty — Authority: 110
  Photo courtesy of SXC. Nurturing the innovation reef In this interesting post from McKinsey & Company’s What Matters blog, Mario Morino asserts that innovation is like a coral reef, in that marine biologists don’t fully understand what causes reefs to form, but do know that human actions can nurture ...
  2 weeks ago

• This Is Literally Not a Metaphor. [New York Times]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 865
  This image (and video!) would be our NYT layoff-watch logo if the paper allowed embedding.
  2 weeks ago

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