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Try Roger Ebert's one: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/atom.xml

Maybe they have no one to talk to.

Are you saying we should just leave it?

Well, it was more your 6th point that bothered me.

[1-6] Is this an ironic joke?

[6] Are you jealous?

"#6 – The 5-Year Old Method (Try explaining quantum physics to a first grader)"

I do this automatically. I can't help it. It is agonizing.

This undeserved downvoting I keep seeing might make me just vomit HN out of my life.

I agree with you, it was a bit melodramatic. And slow. I don't know if I should bother reading it.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

-- Edward de Bono

When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.

-- Linda Naiman

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

-- Eric Hoffer

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

--Carl Sagan

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

-- Teilhard de Chardin

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

-- Vernon Howard

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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

-- Rita Mae Brow

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

-- Trevor Dunn

But this is just the start of something much bigger.

-- Cory Doctorow

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

-- Edwin Land

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

-- Edward Abbey

Actually, they are all at http://github.com/jmhobbs/consume-less-create-more/blob/mast...

People in an open relationship are less happy. Why?

Yeah, I'm sick of seeing that idea being passed about without sources. I think most of the people talking about it haven't even heard of John Taylor Gatto, which is where it came from.

But, do you have sources?

Does that mean it happens often enough for us to worry about it?

I realised that a few weeks ago, without reading the article.

Somehow, I'd rather suicide than give up.

Seems Feynman had an excellent father, seeing from the interviews I have seen with him.

"Pat Robertson would wet himself if he actually understood who he was talking to."

:D

A remember a few years ago there was this site that let you watch the World Cup in ASCII art. Now that was cool.

I just make mine up on the spot. Does no one else do this?

Yeah, but it's more the pop monoculture that irks me. I wish people would explore the arts more, so that it's people sharing what they have discovered than having something common to talk about (assuming that's why we have pop culture). At least it's still social, that way.

I was expecting something completely different by the title. I was thinking of how, when you grow older, your curiosity dies because it takes too much effort to satisfy it.

This worries me. I have a friend who was saying the same thing, but he was uninterested in doing anything about it.

Good. Now delete those lines making those annoying ads ;)

Who was that guy who suggested using lines written plus lines deleted. Was it Knuth?

(Briefly, it's an essay on someone who disparaged Shakespeare, but was ignored and forgotten.)

Why did you link this?

That's what I usually try to do. It's the ones on literature that get me. There's not much to be said about a play by Shakespeare.

But... but.. I have to go to school! And write essays no one will ever want to read, essays that don't even aspire to be something interesting!

The last two paragraphs, are the most interesting:

'Perhaps there is a clue to be found near the end of Solotaroff's essay: "Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger."

'The writer who has experienced this even for a moment becomes hooked on it and is willing to withstand the rest. Insecurity, rejection and disappointment are a price to pay, but those of us who have served our time in the frozen tundra will tell you that we'd do it all over again if we had to. And we do. Each time we sit down to create something, we are risking our whole selves. But when the result is the transformation of anger, disappointment, sorrow, self-pity, guilt, perverseness and wounded innocence into something deep and concrete and abiding -- that is a personal and artistic triumph well worth the long and solitary trip.'

Perhaps the first time creating something is the most difficult.

At the bottom of the page.

Is this about Tucker Max or what it says?

http://news.ycombinator.com/rss ?

No, that also doesn't work. Even going to the actual website doesn't work.

Pressured by random Redditors?

Can you please, um, reformat your comment.

Two newlines in the textbox makes a line in the actual comment.

Edit: It was fixed by the time I submitted this.