February 2012
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January 2012
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Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...
– Jonathan Coulton writes a smart post about MegaUpload, SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Copyright, and being an artist amongst pirates. Grab a cup of coffee on this snowy/rainy Saturday and make this your morning read. (via spytap)
We’re supposed to spend more money and that’s conservative. I’ve never...
– Ron Paul on military spending - @keachhagey (via brooklynmutt)
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December 2011
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Frank Chimero: A Series of Ill-Informed Hunches... →
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I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say “none of your business” in the past 10 years. This is either because social media has deteriorated our sense of entitlement to privacy, we all lust after visibility now, or my manners have gotten better. I can not decide.
The word inception will soon be a…
November 2011
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Caroline McCarthy: Why you should swing by the... →
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There is a great holiday initiative called xx4xmas going on right now on behalf of Rachel Sklar and Tereza Nemessanyi to encourage shoppers to support women-owned businesses this season. They are highlighting some of my all-time favorite online cash drains like Foodzie (remember the bacon…
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October 2011
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We were together. I forget the rest.
– Walt Whitman (via saltwatersound)
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The Particle
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I was asked to speak at the AIGA National Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on October 13th as part of their Emerging Designers Symposium. This is the talk I gave.
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FOX NEWS POLL BACKFIRES: 70 PERCENT SUPPORT OCCUPY...
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In among the corpses there was a murmuring of words in a new language:
the...
– Tomas Tranströmer, from “Noon Thaw” in The Great Enigma, trans. Robin Fulton (via proustitute)
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How can I express the darkness?
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 30 June 1927 (via proustitute)
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You’ve a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to...
– Dylan Moran (via soyoungandyetsocynical)
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Magazines like The Paris Review need good bookstores, where the staff knows how...
– http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/10/05/saving-st-marks/
I can’t clearly articulate how well done, how beautiful, the work is that was...
– The Social Customer Manifesto: Steve Jobs Tribute in Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine (via felixsalmon)
What Steve Jobs Taught Me
Yesterday evening I was as shocked and saddened as many people were at the news of Steve Jobs’ passing. Even though the signs were clear for awhile, I did not believe he would leave us so soon. I suppose I didn’t want to believe it, despite the evidence. It must be one of life’s most unfair aspects that some people never get the chance to enjoy witnessing greatness accrue to their...
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The organizers of Occupy Wall Street are fighting to upend the system. But what...
– http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/who-are-the-99-percent/2011/08/25/gIQAt87jKL_blog.html
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September 2011
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Kickstarter - Truck Yeah: A Mobile Meet Up →
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway (via theladydaydream)
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This is someone working on the most radical edge of mainstream culture and...
– http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/32345/louies-brilliant-second-season
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Yes, one has to smash up one’s old self and get a new one with a new skin (slow...
– D. H. Lawrence, from a letter to Mabel Dodge Luhan, 19 September 1924 (via proustitute)
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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...
– - Brian Eno, cited by Eric Tamm in Brian Eno: His Music and The Vertical Sound Of Color
I try to take walks everyday, to let the world wash over me and wipe out work thoughts for a while.
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