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"Defined by its designer Jamie Martin as "a spiritual successor to rhe 1960's AC/Shelby Cobra" the Cobra Venom V8 Roadster is powered by the new 4.6 liter supercharged Ford V8 block which delivers 524hp." - ben barren via Bookmarklet

"It seems to me that the intellectualization and aestheticizing of principles and values in this country is one of the things that's gutted our generation. All the things that my parents said to me, like "It's really important not to lie." OK, check, got it. I nod at that but I really don't feel it. Until I get to be about 30 and I realize that if I lie to you, I also can't trust you. I feel that I'm in pain, I'm nervous, I'm lonely and I can't figure out why. Then I realize, "Oh, perhaps the way to deal with this is really not to lie." The idea that something so simple and, really, so aesthetically uninteresting -- which for me meant you pass over it for the interesting, complex stuff -- can actually be nourishing in a way that arch, meta, ironic, pomo stuff can't, that seems to me to be important. That seems to me like something our generation needs to feel." - ben barren via Bookmarklet

Historically the stuff that's sort of rung my cherries: Socrates' funeral oration, the poetry of John Donne, the poetry of Richard Crashaw, every once in a while Shakespeare, although not all that often, Keats' shorter stuff, Schopenhauer, Descartes' [Dav - ben barren

WALLACE: The stuff that drives us crazy is the really, really, really basic stuff. What are numbers? What exactly are these three dimensions we're sitting in? Stuff that it's embarrassing to talk about out loud because it sounds like pot-smoking "Oouhh, o - ben barren

Why I am not leaving Twitter - ben barren

Sins of Youth - ben barren via Bookmarklet

"When I first saw these shots of Courtney being wheeled around LA in a shopping trolley, I thought "oh good, rehab going well". It turns out that she broke her toe and that's why she's in the trolley because, you know, crutches are so 2007. After the jump, a clip of said trolley incident and I'm STILL thinking "oh good, rehab going well"." - ben barren via Bookmarklet

That would put the price of Facebook at $3.75 billion. - ben barren

I got into porn because I just can’t seem to grasp this elusive idea we’ve all been socialized to conform to about how women should behave. I can’t buy into this Madonna/Whore complex. I got into porn because I can’t seem to understand how it has - ben barren