“And let me start with a quick public service announcement to all the gentlemen out there: Today is Valentine’s Day,” he said Tuesday in Washington to laughter. “Do not forget. I speak from experience here. It is important that you remember this. And go big. That’s my advice.” (via Obama’s Valentine’s Day Advice: ‘Do Not Forget’) 
(Source: nationalpost, via ilovecharts) “A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could. Think, for example, of the widespread use of the e-book, or the coming home to roost of debt problems around the industrialized world. Here is a bet and a hope that the next quarter century will see more change in higher education than the last three combined.” -Lawrence Summers Republican Chokes Up At Gay Marriage Debate In Washington (by BuzzFeed) “Any customer with an Orange SIM and Internet-enabled phone in the AMEA will be able to browse Wikipedia’s mobile site at no charge, providing they stay within Wikipedia’s pages. The site can be accessed through a browser or Wikipedia widget. The partnership is part of a larger campaign by the Wikimedia Foundation to reach people around the world who access the Internet solely through their phones.” -Zachary Sniderman “Actively hacking networks is a new game for Telecomix’s Web revolutionaries. But unlike the hacker group Anonymous, which began with juvenile pranks before attacking Scientologists, opponents of WikiLeaks and defense contractors, Telecomix was born political.” -Andy Greenberg “And despite all efforts to dissect him, pimp him, or eulogize his premature demise, Eros continues to show up unannounced—disheveled, but as beautiful as ever—and in the most unexpected places. There is no advice column, drug, technique, or technology that can make us kiss with outrageous sensuousness or generate that delicious “vertigo of curiosity” about another person that suffuses life with wild joy. When it happens—and it does—it is not within our control. It is pure grace.” -Lapham’s Quarterly
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