March 2009
55 posts
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David Bowie - TVC 15
Sometimes I feel like I...
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My Wish List for 2010
todddagres:
I have been thinking about what devices and services I would like to see introduced in the next few years. These are somewhat random and not in any particular order. Some are things I want and some are things I would like to see made available to the public. Here’s my current list:
Foldable OLED 7’ OLED screen for Blackberry and IPhone for e-book reading and web surfing. IPhones...
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“Indeed, if the memetic analysis I have given here is correct, then so long as...”
– Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine, in reference to the internet’s exponential effect on the replication, proliferation, and saturation of memes, the theoretical cultural equivalent to biology’s genes. This was published a decade ago, and the internet merited a chapter about a dozen pages...
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The Velvet Underground - I Heard Her Call My Name
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The Wipers - Potential Suicide
Heading into the...
“Because of a very subtle yet clever feature, Amazon makes the best of both the...”
– The Magic Behind Amazon’s 2.7 Billion Dollar Question: more evidence that web design is about far more than just visuals. In Steve Jobs’s words, “Design is how it works”.
Dear Tumblr:
brownpau:
Login form on front page please, to save a click. Tnx.
Odd implementation, and discovered entirely by accident, but you can use the signup fields to log in. Email, password, hit enter - you’ve saved yourself a click.
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Simon Rich Co-Writing Horror Movie →
patrickcassels:
Co-Writer Bill Hader offers the most awesomely bizzare description of the script: “It’s partially Straw Dogs meets Halloween meets Home Alone meets Monster Squad.” Considering those happen to be my four favorite films about home invasion, I’m thoroughly psyched.
Straw Dogs: I watched that for the first time last year after it had sat in the Netflix queue for months. I had no idea...
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Vactrain Network
When I was about nine years old, I wrote a story for my third grade class about a distant utopia on a foreign world. Most of the details of that story have faded from memory, but the one “invention” that gripped my imagination then still has a hold on me now. I wrote about a series of tubes crisscrossing the planet, shuttling people aboard trains that zipped along in airless tubes. I...
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Learning How to Think →
jingc:
Ever wonder how financial experts could lead the world over the economic cliff?
One explanation is that so-called experts turn out to be, in many situations, a stunningly poor source of expertise. There’s evidence that what matters in making a sound forecast or decision isn’t so much knowledge or experience as good judgment — or, to be more precise, the way a person’s mind works.
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The Sound - Heartland
I posted a track from these...
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Cardin's Bill Ignores the Real Debate →
OK, let me preface this by saying I appreciate where Cardin is coming from. His goal is to preserve the segment of the newspaper industry focused on providing information and coverage to the average citizen, ie, the local and regional papers. He states pretty clearly that this isn’t designed to provide aid to the conglomerates and national chains, though I wonder how they would...
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marco:
Simone Manganelli does the math to approximate how much of MacHeist’s $39 price likely goes to each application, based on some very optimistic assumptions.
When you’re deciding whether to buy these applications normally or buy the MacHeist bundle, consider where your money’s really going and how much of it your favorite apps’ developers are likely to receive.
Also consider that...
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The Replacements - Takin’ a Ride
It would...
“Never trust Alaskans. They’ve attained their incredible physical...”
– The Velvet Nihilist
tristanjay7:
The Monks - Monk Time
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The Book Cover Archive →
frangry:
An archive of book cover designs and designers, for the purpose of appreciation and categorization.
This is incredible. Interesting to see how many covers I love are by the same designers.
Edit for clarity: right off the bat, John Gall (mostly for the Murakami covers) and Paul Buckley (love the Delillo covers, especially White Noise, and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which I...
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Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach for...
Resume Addition
I’ve been thinking it over, and I think we’ve arrived at the point where one can reasonably add this to a resume:
Did not play a part in bringing about the downfall of the global financial system.
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There is a lot big media can learn from the...
bijan:
I try not to write about why big media is broken or needs to be fixed. It’s complicated and there is huge money at stake.
But I’ve been part of a number of so many conferences, dinners and meetings on the subject lately. I just can’t keep still (read quiet). And I hear that “analog dollars vs digital pennies” thing one more time….
First a few things.
1. I don’t think big media is...
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Fed to bolster the economy with $1 trillion...
santopoliti:
I wrote a post about 3 weeks ago about the alarming news that I had heard from a bond trader friend of mine on how the Fed was trying to control the yield curve by buying at the long end and selling at the short end and how that gets us to hyperinflation. They did just that but in a massive scale - today comes the news that they are going to buy $1.2 trillion of long term government...
Portfolio: In RGB We Trust →
syntheticpubes:
I’m looking to rock out on some freelance/contract work for the next six weeks before I fly to Italy for a two week ‘interview’ at a juicy design lab I’ve had my eye on since 2004. I’ve poured blood, sweat and tears into a vast spectrum of design projects, as my portfolio (hopefully) demonstrates.
The collaborative possibilities are fertile like a BYU Freshman: user experience...
UPS/Staples vortex of death
Not sure how many people this would matter to, but I feel like it’s worth saving at least one person the aggravation I’ve been dealing with.
If you ever have to ship something via UPS, DO NOT SEND IT VIA STAPLES!!!!
I sent a flash unit back to the retailer I bought it from in December. I used the UPS counter at Staples because I assumed it was an authorized sender. Within a couple...
What's your favorite Suicide song?
postpunk:
I’d like to know. I think “Ghost Rider” is their definitive song, but “Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne” is the one I keep replaying from the second record.
Frankie Teardrop, unquestionably. The most harrowing four minutes in music history…and you’re not even halfway through the song.
jacob:
The Microphones - The Glow pt. 2
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Stereolab & Nurse with Wound - Exploding Head...
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“You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?”
– Thelonious Monk (va Fred’s Tumblr)
“He is bound, in love and in bodily fear, to students who have died under the...”
– Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, introducing the nihilist Russian Tchitcherine.
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My Bloody Valentine - Glider
The Sonics - Strychnine
This song is unstoppable,...
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“My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered...”
– Evan Williams - The Boss - For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents - NYTimes.com (via bijan)
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Twitter in the Tumblr Dashboard
The Tumblr dashboard makes a fantastic Twitter client. Twitpic thumbnails, easy reblogging, replying, and favoriting, and styled in Tumblr fashion. If they can manage the conversations as notes or something, this could be really spectacular. The ratio of signal to noise has always been too weak for me to really embrace Twitter the same way I have Tumblr, but this is definitely intriguing.
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Agent Orange - Miserlou
Instrumental Dick Dale...
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The New Yorker's Review Of "Watchmen"
jstn:
Right in the middle it casually gives away the end of the story (which I am currently reading, and subsequently have just had ruined by the New Yorker). Hating the movie doesn’t give you license to fuck it up for everyone else, Anthony Lane.
Or am I truly the last person on Earth who hadn’t read it yet?
I am also halfway done, read straight through for a few hours last night, and...
The Monks - Shut Up
Mid-sixties protopunk garage...