#nowreading (Taken with Instagram)
The amateur, seeing how the professional having learned all that he’ll ever learn about writing can take a trivial thing such as the most superficial reactions of three uncharacterized girls and make it witty and charming—the amateur thinks he or she can do the same. But the amateur can only realize his ability to transfer his emotions to another person by some such desperate and radical expedient as tearing your first tragic love story out of your heart and putting it on pages for people to see.
Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful.
George W. Bush, on his time as president. (via officialssay)
how much of an idiot can a President be?
Turkey’s Human Rights Hypocrisy - NYTimes.com
Turkey’s attempt to cultivate an image as the global protector of Muslim rights is compromised by a legacy of ethnic cleansing and genocide against Christians and terror against Arabs and Kurds. Memories of these crimes are very much alive throughout former Ottoman territories. And Turkey cannot serve as a democratic model until it acknowledges that brutal violence, population transfers and genocide underlie the modern Turkish state
What. In. The. Hell. Is. This. Professor. Smoking.
Yes, yes. Every country in the world is lying when they say they want to uphold human rights. Yes, yes. United States is the only country in the world who rejects the old notion of power politics, instead, they’re operating purely on the basis of moral. Nevermind that human rights is shit to the US when it came to their own security. Nothing to see here, you can all go home now. /sarcasm
But seriously, I’m not saying criticizing Turkey on their human rights record is unfair. My point is it’s a systemic problem, rather than hypocrisy. Everybody wants to be a leader in order to survive, thus everybody wants to be seen as standing on a moral high ground. Of course it’s all smoke and mirrors.
On second thoughts, i’ll revise my position. It is unfair to criticize Turkey when there’s an elephant in the room and we can’t see it. That’s why this article in my eyes are just too pretentious and naive. And to think a professor wrote this.
Oh wait.
Taner Akcam, a professor of history at Clark University, is the author of “The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire.”
A historian who sold books. Nevermind.
Bright lights, big city
Was quite extraordinary.
The drive was pretty.
I was in perfect company.
The love of a lifetime,
Since we were elementary friends;
The one with the bright eyes..
Why can’t I be optimistic?
I tried to find the logic logically.
I had a dream and I could not shake it.
I was standing up there naked.
There’s fear in the truth at hand, frozen I forgot to understand
The live keep living; growing older more into a man..
And I let her grow away from me.
Love.. love is not pretending.
Time.. time was meant for mending
Memories into all is satisfactory,
Healthy smiles fill the page the day we spent in miles.
And I let her drive away from me.
The one with the bright eyes
Laughed her way inside this music box;
Stored away in the corner of my heart. And I let her get away from me
But I’ll never take that day away from me.
Iranian People are Discriminated Against In The Apple Store
So apparently this happen.
Several people say they were denied service by Apple store employees because they spoke Farsi or disclosed that they were of Iranian descent, despite being U.S. citizens or in the country legally on visas. In the first reported case in Atlanta, Iranian-American Sahar Sabet was turned away by an employee who heard her speaking Farsi with her uncle. The employee said federal export control regulations related to the U.S. embargo on Iran prevented him from selling her an iPad
I don’t know what this is, probably an overblown stereotype thing against middle eastern people, but then the article seem to specifically touts Iranian people. This is especially weird to me for the fact that Steve Jobs, Apple’s “god” himself is of Middle Eastern descent. Lebanon, specifically.
Everybody hates Firefox updates
This part intrigues me:
Software companies would do well to learn this lesson: anything with the phrase “users love our product” in it isn’t a strategy, it’s wishful thinking. Your users do not “love” your software. Your users are temporarily tolerating your software because it’s the least horrible option they have — for now — to meet some need. Developers have an emotional connection to the project; users don’t.
I hope for all of our sake that this isn’t the determining factor. Has anyone actually ever purchased WinRAR?
Also I’m really sorry that I’ve been way behind this week. It was a crazy busy week and I didn’t have a moment to myself to get anything done. Things are back on schedule now though, so expect the normal three comics next week!
And as always, thanks for reading, everyone!
Thinkpad Production Returns to Japan
Lenovo moved its ThinkPad manufacturing lines to China last decade, but it’s now doing a trial run at an existing NEC plant in Yamagata, Japan with the hope of moving to full-scale production in the future.
