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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:47:19 -0700

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gtmcknight: This water fountain on UF campus compares the usage...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:28:17 -0700

gtmcknight:

This water fountain on UF campus compares the usage versus buying disposable water bottles!

Smart.

Remember Paper Issue 2

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:08:54 -0700

dusdin:

My photo of Sam on the cover of Remember Paper 2. The issue looks pretty amazing with work by Richard Kern and Henrik Purienne, among others. Excited to see it in person.

remember-paper:

Dusdin is so great. This photo is beautiful.

Facebook knows I’m into cilantro.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:31:08 -0700

Facebook knows I’m into cilantro.

"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:24:51 -0700

“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”

- Lao Tzu (via kortina)

kateoplis: Carlos_Díaz

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:23:30 -0700

kateoplis:

Carlos_Díaz

"People are just as happy with the talk about the object, or the talk about the processes making the..."

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:31:42 -0700

“People are just as happy with the talk about the object, or the talk about the processes making the object, being interesting. They don’t mind that the object or the processes themselves aren’t interesting. There’s no difference to them. They’re very happy with having Vampire Weekend in place of Elvis Costello. As the media gets smaller and smaller, because of closer small-worldness I guess, success is the only thing that’s interesting.”

- Sounding Off: The Fiery Furnaces’ Matthew Friedberger On Making, Marketing, and Listening to Music

Again, the whole thing is worth reading. This makes me believe even more that Warhol was a prophet. It also makes me think of things like Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 13 which basically only exists as people talk about it, and they only talk about it because Barney is successful/famous.

(via Instapaper)

"When I was nineteen, I was at somebody’s party and they put on a James Brown record. I went to the..."

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:18:31 -0700

“When I was nineteen, I was at somebody’s party and they put on a James Brown record. I went to the corner and listened to it because it was such an interesting piece of music. Then this guy—a very suburban white guy—started dancing around. I remember being horrified, and I glared at him. And he caught me glaring at him, and he’s like, “But it’s James Brown, man, it’s for dancing!” [laughs] and I remember thinking, “It’s for damn dancing? What are you talking about?” My attitude was as bizarre as his behavior was uncool.”

- Sounding Off: The Fiery Furnaces’ Matthew Friedberger On Making, Marketing, and Listening to Music

The whole thing is worth reading. If you’ve ever seen Matthew Friedberger glare at someone, you’ll understand the significance of this.

(via Instapaper)

"I was asked at lunch today who or what I worshipped. The question was asked sincerely, and in the..."

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:20:10 -0700

“I was asked at lunch today who or what I worshipped. The question was asked sincerely, and in the same spirit I responded that I worshipped whatever there might be outside knowledge. I worship the void. The mystery. And the ability of our human minds to perceive an unanswerable mystery. To reduce such a thing to simplistic names is an insult to it, and to our intelligence.”

- Traveler to the undiscovere’d country - Roger Ebert’s Journal

"What concerned us most about The Newspaper was its lack of Wi-Fi. Information on the system was..."

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:27:18 -0700

“What concerned us most about The Newspaper was its lack of Wi-Fi. Information on the system was locked, while on other e-readers it was open, ubiquitous and current. Eventually, however, we found this advantage to be overstated, even misleading. Engineers using The Newspaper typically did so 30 to 60 minutes a day. Afterward, they went outside, formed relationships, and took in what life had to offer. Those using Wi-Fi-enabled e-readers tended to stay on the couch, scanning video sites for cats; eventually, downloading recipes for artichoke cheese dip they’ll never use.”

- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now Recommend “The Newspaper” As the Best e-Reader On the Market. (via Instapaper)

"More than 4.5 billion people currently own a mobile phone, and within the next decade, that number..."

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:33:23 -0700

“More than 4.5 billion people currently own a mobile phone, and within the next decade, that number will reach 90 percent of the global population. So when Clinton speaks of “a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas,” she is not describing some messianic attempt to impose American technological solutions on the rest of the world. She is talking about the world as it soon will be — and in many ways already is.”

- Digital Diplomacy - By Sam duPont | Foreign Policy

That is, of course, unless Google and Verizon have anything to say about it.

(via Instapaper)

via kateoplis

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:39:28 -0700

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Not Shannon and Shannon (Redux)

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:28:56 -0700

I’m going through old things and found this little sketch from Shan. I blogged about it in August, 2007, when she drew it. Here’s the story…

This morning Shannon tried to explain her next hair cut. She drew it and showed me:

Then she took the paper back and said, “no wait, that’s not me…here,” and handed me this:

I love Shannon.

I’m starting a non-profit to help make data about San...

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:29:40 -0700

I’m starting a non-profit to help make data about San Diego freely available for anyone to use. I gave a presentation about it at Ignite San Diego the other night. Here are the slides.

"When you see strawberries being sold for $1 a box, picture the kind of labor it takes to pick those..."

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:26:02 -0700

“When you see strawberries being sold for $1 a box, picture the kind of labor it takes to pick those strawberries and the kind of chemicals it takes to produce those kinds of strawberries without hand weeding.”

- Michael Pollan Endorses the $8 Dozen of Eggs

"Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of..."

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:59:06 -0700

“Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite sex couples are superior to same sex couples.”

- Judge Vaughn Walker Hands Victory to Proposition 8 Opponents (via globalspin)

"Many games involve compulsion, and studies that compare the partial reinforcement techniques of slot..."

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 23:21:33 -0700

“Many games involve compulsion, and studies that compare the partial reinforcement techniques of slot machines and psychological manipulations to videogames stretch back to the mid-1980s. In recent years, massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) frequently have been accused of doing little more than compelling players to keep playing; amounting to “brain hacks that exploit human psychology in order to make money”…”

- Cow Clicker (via Instapaper)

via: newyorker: Love this.

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:48:25 -0700

via: newyorker:

Love this.

"…as the world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a normal life will be..."

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:24:46 -0700

“…as the world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a normal life will be driven ever further apart. One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best. These two senses are already quite far apart. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don’t think you’re weird, you’re living badly.”

- The Acceleration of Addictiveness

"What was a really major bad idea about the Garden City was you take a clean slate and you make a new..."

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:24:57 -0700

“What was a really major bad idea about the Garden City was you take a clean slate and you make a new world. That’s basically artificial. There is no new world that you make without the old world. And Mumford fell for that and the whole “this is the twentieth century” thing. The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism”

- James Howard Kunstler (JHK) and Jane Jacobs (JJ)

Why the 20th century / modernism feels so wrong to me.

(via Instapaper)