May 2012
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May 18th
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“Yet if death is bad for me, when is it bad for me? Not now. I’m not dead...”
– Is Death Bad for You? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education This is the best thing I’ve read all week.
May 18th
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Daring Fireball Linked List: How Yahoo Botched Its... →
Related to the previous post: I feel like Gruber is usually pretty solid in his reasoning, but I have to ask here: why, exactly, “Flicker could have - should have - been to mobile photography what Instagram became.”? This seems to me to be exactly the same sort of logic that leads all sorts of companies to all sorts of bad strategic decisions. The sorts of decisions that often result...
May 18th
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Greatly Exaggerated
Besides being an inconsistent, not especially skilled, or able-to-think-of-three-things-to-list writer, I’m convinced that my pathological aversion to link-bait-y titles in posts is what’s kept me from otherwise certain fame. So I get why Gizmodo titled their article How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet. And I get why it’s been retweeted and reblogged a bunch since then....
May 17th
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May 17th
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TIV Sports News!
“I heard they wanted to be like the Dallas Mavericks, in a sense,” Wade said about an apparent reference to Pacers coach Frank Vogel using last year’s Mavs team, which beat the Heat in Miami for the title, as motivation for Indiana. “I saw their little celebration at the end of (Game 2). I don’t know if they didn’t expect to win, but every night we go out on the court, we expect to win.” Wade then...
May 17th
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May 14th
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May 13th
May 3rd
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April 2012
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Apr 27th
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4 Key Insights From The 57-Day, Blitzkrieg... →
The most interesting part of this article for me wasn’t the lessons outlined (although, if you’re a designer, they are at least semi-interesting) it’s that it really just reiterates something I’ve really come to be certain of in the last few years: as important as good execution is, you can’t really design your way out of bad strategy. Google+ was better designed...
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Mad Men, the BitTorrent episode
jkottke: This is an episode of Mad Men, incompletely downloaded from BitTorrent. The video captures an episode of the popular TV show in the act of being shared by thousands of users on bittorent. The video simultaneously acts as a visualisation of bittorrent traffic and the practice of filesharing and is an aesthetically beautiful by product of the bittorrent process as the pieces of the...
Apr 21st
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Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
Apr 17th
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“By all accounts, the group could not reach a majority on any of the three titles...”
– Pulitzers snub fiction - Fiction - Salon.com Laura Miller on the Pulitzers lack of fiction award this year. (h/t Alexander Chee) A little more on the lack a fiction winner in this years Pulitzers.
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
Netflix's Reed Hastings: "Comcast no longer... →
shortformblog: I spent the weekend enjoying four good internet video apps on my Xbox: Netflix, HBO GO, Xfinity, and Hulu.  When I watch video on my Xbox from three of these four apps, it counts against my Comcast internet cap. When I watch through Comcast’s Xfinity app, however, it does not count against my Comcast internet cap.  For example, if I watch last night’s SNL episode on my Xbox...
Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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“His soul is a Kierkegaardian shattered mirror upon which he casts a reflection...”
– A Critical Review of Smartphone Ads « The Bygone Bureau
Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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9-year-old's DIY cardboard arcade gets flashmobbed... →
If you haven’t already watched this you need to. As someone who spent their childhood building castles and spaceships out of cardboard boxes, I feel fully qualified in saying it’s the best thing you’ll see on the internet this week.
Apr 11th
“The study door suddenly swings open and Daisy, wearing a red and gold dress,...”
– House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Apr 5th
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March 2012
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Tennessee Passes 'Monkey Bill' To Teach The... →
miocyon: Way to go Tennessee… Oh goddammit you guys.
Mar 23rd
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kottke.org: New David Foster Wallace book: Both... →
jkottke: A book containing David Foster Wallace’s previously uncollected nonfiction is due out in November. Beloved for his epic agony, brilliantly discerning eye, and hilarious and constantly self-questioning tone, David Foster Wallace was heralded by both critics and fans as the voice of a… You know, usually I don’t like when people get the Tupac treatment, but whatever -...
Mar 20th
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“With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio...”
– The Pirate Bay - The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site (via iamdanw)
Mar 19th
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Mar 13th
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Mar 12th
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February 2012
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Feb 29th
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Feb 19th
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Failed Jeremy Lin Headline Puns
LINner ear infection Abraham LINcoln White LINfandel Dorsal LIN LINsay Lohan Terms of LINderment LINt roller Now is the LINter of our discontent LINdow washer LINsider Trading also Jeremery Irons
Feb 19th
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“All it actually means is that even when one remembers something one did not...”
–  Kate
Feb 16th
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January 2012
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“It disturbs me the way turducken does, like as a close cousin to cannibalism....”
– Swallowed by a whale — a true tale? - Salon.com
Jan 31st
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Jan 18th
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December 2011
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Louis CK Single-Handedly Undermines All Imagined... →
How weird is it that this could happen at the exact same time congress is listing to the bozo’s trying to push SOPA through?
Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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“The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a...”
– Joshua Kopstein, Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works (via drinkyourjuice) This friends, is the most important article you’ll read today.  (via shortformblog)
Dec 17th
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Louis
Louis CK: comedian AND expert brand manager. That there is the note you find when buying Louis CK’s new comedy special and while not quite as progressive as Radioheads “pay if you want’ model, it’s another great example of how a really well managed brand doesn’t need to fear it’s customers or pirates or whatever. The fact is: someone (probably a lot of...
Dec 13th
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November 2011
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Nov 19th
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“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via nomoreundead)
Nov 8th
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WatchWatch
Yeeeaaaah. That. Man - if you grew up in the 80’s or early 90’s this is a YES for you.
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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“The point of grammar is to facilitate clear and precise communication, to make...”
– —John Green (via runalovegood) This guy gets it. (via sylviawrath) Someone needs to tell all the AP kids…. (via zeenie) I think this is mostly true, but not entirely true. As someone who’s grasp of even basic grammatical rules is fleeting at best, and who is a fairly firm believer in...
Nov 3rd
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