September 2009
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“Edison’s own last great contribution was, perversely, in driving the...”
– Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison and the legacies of early cinema (via Snarkmarket) (via faketv)
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Where no good foreigner goes unpunished. -... →
“You know who we should be keeping an eye on? Forget about my exotic friend. What about that cheap kid who’s always hanging out at the gas station? You know who I’m talking about. Short, kind of stocky. What’s his name? Swoosh…Swish…Swisher? Swisher. Yeah, that’s it. Swisher. There’s something not right about that guy. For one, he’s always hanging out at high school poker games, or youth...
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“It’s not just fastidiousness that makes good programmers avoid nasty...”
– Paul Graham at O’Reilly Open Source Media Conference, 2004 (link)
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“So who should start a startup? Someone who is a good hacker, between about 23...”
– Paul Graham in “How to Start a Startup”
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Record Labels File Suit Against ‘Ellen DeGeneres... →
One day she’s a judge, the next a defendant: a consortium of major record labels has filed suit against Ellen DeGeneres’s syndicated daytime talk show, saying that their copyrights to more than 1,000 songs were violated when they were played on the show without their permission, The Associated Press reported.
Why I Will Learn German
BF: Especially in the third volume, you develop nothing less than a new, up-to-date terminology of critical theory by which you historically contextualize and delimit terms from the Frankfurt School. A far-reaching critique of the contemporary reception of critical theory’s inheritance runs through the book. In particular, you criticize what you view as the misleading interpretation of...
girl/friend/circles
HUFFINGTON POST — Sep 10 — Shasta Nelson, founder of GirlfriendCircles.com, is organizing speed-friending events in cities across the country to help women meet new friends. Small groups of women mingle before they meet at an assigned table for four, speak a few minutes about a question put before them, and move on to three new tables to repeat the process, enabling them to meet at...
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Versificator (1984) - Wikipedia, the free... →
The versificator is a fictional device employed by Ingsoc in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Its primary purpose is to act as a ‘writing machine’, a machine which produces both literature and music, its primary target audience being the proles. The purpose of the versificator is to provide a means of producing ‘creative’ output without having any of the...
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“Certainly if you had all the world’s information directly attached to your...”
– Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in this 2004 Newsweek interview (via this article, below).
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"When the Net absorbs a medium, that medium is...
Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter—a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, to be precise. His vision was failing, and keeping his eyes focused on a page had become exhausting and painful, often bringing on crushing headaches. He had been forced to curtail his writing, and he feared that he would soon have to give it up. The typewriter rescued him, at least for a time. Once he had...
"Feelings"
“feelin’ good feelin’ great. / to say what i want / feelings. / salty lips / feel you flowin through me / my fingertips, i feel / the love tonight” - (outkast, dirty projectors, morris albert, merril bainbridge, cadet, brenton wood, elton john)
Overspending on Debit Cards Is a Boon for Banks -... →
Some experts warn that a sharp reduction in overdraft fees could put weakened financial institutions out of business. Michael Moebs, an economist who advises banks and credit unions, said Ms. Maloney’s legislation would effectively kill overdraft services, causing an estimated 1,000 banks and 2,000 credit unions to fold within two years. That is because 45 percent of the nation’s banks and credit...
College Advice, From People Who Have Been There... →
Go the Wrong Way by Martha Nussbaum
“It’s easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing you for a job. But remember: this may be the one time in your life when you have a chance to think about the whole of your life, not just your job. Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge...
The Young And The Jobless - Willamette Week →
“Of the survey respondents who’ve lived here more than five years, 38 percent would like to kick out everybody who arrived less than five years ago. Half of you say if the L.A. Lakers offered a trade for Brandon Roy, the first thing you’d ask for is that they take back all the Californians, too. But none of you is going anywhere: Forty-three percent say the lifestyle is too good to even...
Cirque du Soleil chief outlines 'poetic' space... →
“Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté, training for a flight to the International Space Station next month, said Wednesday he plans to orchestrate a five-continent extravaganza as part of his ‘poetic social mission’ to raise awareness of water as a critical cultural and environmental issue.
‘As soon as I arrive on board of the International Space Station, I will...
Not every cloud has a silver lining - Cory... →
There’s something you won’t see mentioned by too many advocates of cloud computing – the main attraction is making money from you
