January 2011
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“We’re just starting to see what happens when the Internet starts engaging with...”
– Looking Back, Looking Forward « random($foo)
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Hooray for @lhl
December 2010
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in...”
– Eisenhower on the Opportunity Cost of Defense Spending (via wilwheaton)
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The Best Albums of 2009
I did a 2008 list last year mainly because no albums had grabbed me in 2009. I worried (seriously!) that I was losing the ability to experience music’s sublime and transcendent power. Ha!
It turns out 2009 was just a lousy year for albums. It’s a scientific fact. From Metacritic:
Despite having many more albums to choose from (Metacritic scored 892 albums this year, up from 805 last...
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“In the end, openness is only as important as the user experience it enables.”
– brycedotvc
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Yes
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Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite... →
Om Malik:
Do you think that the future of the Internet will involve machines thinking on our behalf?
Ev Williams:
Yes, they’ll have to. But it’s a combination of machines and the crowd. Data collected from the crowd that is analyzed by machines. For us, at least, that’s the future. Facebook is already like that. YouTube is like that. Anything that has a lot of information has to be like that....
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“at first, i thought that @corybooker’s blizzard tweets made for goodwill &...”
– (via heif)
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Make sure you see this tweet/pic of Booker in action, too.
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“Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through...”
– Vida D. Scudder (via zetrindade)
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“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut - 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will (via yewknee)
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This man was a gift from God! (har har har)
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“Computer art has not been found out yet. Let us find it out for ourselves.
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– THE MANIFESTO OF COMPUTER ART by Tamas Waliczky - Budapest, 15 January 1989
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This “manifesto” is still exciting to me.
“In proportion to the flood of consumer goods, we are probably at one of the...”
– George Nakashima: “It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value” - (37signals)
“If the Supreme Court had allowed the votes to be counted in 2000, then the...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg: The Envoy : The New Yorker
“For now the seized domains are in legal limbo. David Snead, a lawyer...”
– Music Blogs Caught Up in Labels’ Online Piracy Fight - NYTimes.com
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Just so you know, the Internet becomes less free and less open every day as monied interests buy more regulatory influence. We lose as a result.
“While people younger than 30 years old have spent more time with the Internet...”
– American Internet Use Catches Up With TV Use - NYTimes.com
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“The Internet we know today exists only because, until now, there have been no...”
– Internet Access Should Be Application-Agnostic - Union Square Ventures (via garychou)
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Wow I am disgusted by Peter Orszag’s move to... →
Was there a more politically toxic destination to sell [Orszag’s contacts, skills, and experiences] than Citigroup? The firm may or may not win the prize as the most galling corporate recipient of federal bailout funds. It is certainly on the medal stand. It perfectly symbolizes both the “too-big-to-fail” problem and the overly-cozy relationship between investment banking and Washington....
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“I think the current laws, which criminalize the leaking of secrets but not the...”
– Clay Shirky on Wikileaks
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I’m creeped out by how much I agree with everything Shirky says.
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Andy Warhol Doesn't Care
This is copied from a dead old blog of mine. I wanted to resurface it because a conversation with a friend reminded me of it this morning.
All of these quotes are from Andy Warhol’s last interview from Flash Magazine in 1987. I don’t know that much about Warhol, but I like what he’s said about business and art in the past.
I’ve bolded a few things that I like in the...
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“These affidavits are not a required part of an application for a U.S. passport...”
– The only .gov resource appears to be optimized for the non-normal…
passport renewal - Google Search
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I don’t like it when people say “fail,” but this is a fail.
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The New Yorker is absurd
From the New Yorker’s profile of April Bloomfield:
Bloomfield was working on a fried-chicken special for the evening’s menu. The inspiration was some buffalo wings she had eaten at the Waterfront Ale House, a bar in Murray Hill. (It’s close to her apartment.) “Their chicken has a really great sort of fruity habañero taste,” Bloomfield said. Her take on the idea was intense, a concentration,...
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