Category Archives: quotes

Nick Cave Heart Plato

June 2, 2007 – 1:25 pm

Whilst warming some soup and sipping sports drinks on a Saturday afternoon chatting with the ghost of Linda Blair about how to evict the demon that has taken residence in my stomach this past week (the Devil and Daniel Johnston documentary, while interesting, lent no clues to this end), I decided to once and for [...]

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Quotes: regarding teenage lightning

May 4, 2007 – 11:49 am

Somehow, every time I drag out the Coil these days, I remember something clever that I can attribute to the band members. I’m not a total freak for the band, but they’ve created some memorable moments for my noggin. Today’s quote is the definition of “Teenage Lightning,” the name of a track from the Love’s [...]

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Quote for the Day

January 3, 2007 – 1:25 pm

From an article discussing the One Laptop Per Child project XO laptop:
“In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint.”
- Nicholas Negroponte

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