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Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life.

—Maurice Sendak has died. We’re changing the entire show today to remember him. This quote is from his most recent Fresh Air appearance last year. (via nprfreshair)

Short, simple, and oh so profound.

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NPR: Do You Deserve That Foul Ball?

npr:

There’s some impassioned debate going on in the comments on the post about the couple in Texas failing to surrender a foul ball to the weeping child beside them. What are the real rules, here? Possession is nine-tenths of the law? Children first? What’s the right thing to do to avoid the censure…

ah, flow charts. and about baseball nonetheless. life just got a bit more awesome.

3nil: Good work Fernando. perseverance on the pitch. j terry, wtf mate?

3nil:

Good work Fernando.

perseverance on the pitch. j terry, wtf mate?

We think we’re in the joy business. We deliver communal joy to people who come out to the game. It’s not sports, it’s not entertainment, it’s not even soccer. It’s joy.

—Greg Cotton, COO of Sporting Kansas City, from a New York Times piece on the total turnaround at a club seemingly doomed back in 2005. (via xiquarterly)

intrusionesarch: Houston: Doughnut City The term Doughnut City is used to describe a phenomenon that affects the physical shape of some cities of the North American Sun Belt. It consists of the concentration of urban activity on the ring road (where the newest and most advanced generation of housing estates and office parks are located) and the parallel physical disappearance of all that remains inside (the interior is affected by an accelerated process of obsolescence that leads to the demolition of a multitude of buildings). Viewed from a European perspective, the Doughnut City is a phenomenon that goes against nature. If in the cities of the Old Continent proximity to the center means an added value, in the Doughnut City quite the reverse is true: the most eligible urban areas are on the final periphery.

intrusionesarch:

Houston: Doughnut City

The term Doughnut City is used to describe a phenomenon that affects the physical shape of some cities of the North American Sun Belt. It consists of the concentration of urban activity on the ring road (where the newest and most advanced generation of housing estates and office parks are located) and the parallel physical disappearance of all that remains inside (the interior is affected by an accelerated process of obsolescence that leads to the demolition of a multitude of buildings). Viewed from a European perspective, the Doughnut City is a phenomenon that goes against nature. If in the cities of the Old Continent proximity to the center means an added value, in the Doughnut City quite the reverse is true: the most eligible urban areas are on the final periphery.

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librarianista: A New Model for the Post-Modern Public Library? All three of New York’s public library systems are conducting or planning expansive renovations that reflect a shift in whom they serve, and how…. Library presidents said they now see their institutions more as public community spaces and less as storage for bound volumes of information.

librarianista:

A New Model for the Post-Modern Public Library?

All three of New York’s public library systems are conducting or planning expansive renovations that reflect a shift in whom they serve, and how…. Library presidents said they now see their institutions more as public community spaces and less as storage for bound volumes of information.