March 2012
28 posts
February 2012
31 posts
“Poets and artists live on frontiers. They have no feedback, only feedforward....”
– Marshall McLuhan (via Folkert Gorter)
Frontiers people. Which frontiers are left? Inner and outer space.
(via wreckandsalvage)
tedr: feedforward
(via tedr)
“There’s a feeling in music and it carries you back down the road you have...”
– Woody Guthrie (via newspeedwayboogie)
“It’s a minimum viable bar,” Grubb says.”
– RVIP Karaoke: The Most Amazing RV On Earth Is Now Much More Than A Hobby | TechCrunch
http://ex.fm/song/9ewgl
“We put a lot of energy into developing this very elaborate system,” said Mintz...”
– Bump 3.0 launches today, pared down to just 2 features | VentureBeat
Lessig: The Outsiders Guide to Fixing the... →
lessig:
My book, One Way Forward: The Outsiders Guide to Fixing the Republic, was published Tuesday by Byliner. The book is an ebook. I had expected it would have a print-on-demand alternative. That was a pretty important expectation for me, for reasons anyone who knows me must recognize, but so far,…
Way to bury the lede, Lessig! Hey everyone, buy this book! I just did.
“On Feb. 6, The Inquirer killed an article about a real estate developer who had...”
– In Philadelphia, Papers’ Editorial Independence at Issue - NYTimes.com
25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like... →
mobylosangelesarchitecture:
these are just about the coolest things ever built by humans. so, i’ll get back to l.a architecture soon. in the meantime, tito commissioned yugoslavian war memorials that look like they were designed and installed by giant space aliens who loved concrete and lived 50,000 years ago.
-moby
“Think before you authorize.”
– Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox | Epicenter | Wired.com
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: An open apology to the... →
spiegelman:
Judging by some of the links to pop up on my Internet the past hour or so, this fake Mitt Romney thing is starting to be about Pinterest changing the name of my parody account, and not about the fact that the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President asked…
Well said.
“After not having a single million dollar project in Kickstarter’s first...”
– 24 Hours » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
Welcome to the future, folks!
“One of my kids has special needs. This means he rides a certain bus and goes to...”
– Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers | Hacker News
There’s a lot that’s, well, reactionary in the reaction to the original post of this item, but this comment in the HN thread really struck me. It’s a good reminder that contacts aren’t “just...
“And this community wasn’t imported from another network like a facebook’s graph....”
– This answers the One Network To Rule Them All question for me. I’ve always said that I like keeping my “graphs” separated (SoundCloud, Instagram Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc) and for that reason I find myself participating in a variety of other networks, ten times more than I do on Facebook.
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“The 200-ton content-compiling device, developed by Greek multimillionaire and...”
– ‘Huffington Post’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Letter from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, in...
kateoplis:
spytap:
rachelfershleiser:
producermatthew:
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to
rate chicks on their relative hotness.
Rachel wins the internet today.
RATE CHICKS ON THEIR RELATIVE HOTNESS. (it bears repeating)
F*ck You. Pay Me.
iwasntpaid:
Thanks to the gpcz on Hacker News, here’s a video on how to avoid such situations.
2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from San Francisco Creative Mornings on Vimeo.
Video recommended to all freelance creatives. (Site is entertaining too.)
kateoplis: Planned Parenthood, Komen & Moving... →
So Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure today announced that they will no longer give any funding to Planned Parenthood.
This funding allowed Planned Parenthood to provide breast examinations and referrals for mammography and ultrasound to patients at their health centers, patients who were able…
