July 2010
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“Bellow” - Nick Salvatore (2009)
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And the Register concluded that a jailbroken phone used “fewer than 50...
– from Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use” (ars technica)
The indie band Dirty Projectors released a concept album around Don Henley in...
– From the wikipedia page on don henley, under the subtitle “parody.” Ha.
UPDATE: the passage immediately following the above sentence on that wikipage reads: “Psychobilly musician Mojo Nixon wrote a song called “Don Henley Must Die.” Some years later, Mojo was playing...
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“Jewel Does Undercover Karaoke” via jkottke.
I bet y’all’ve seen this already, but i gotta put it up for posterity. As Kottke says, “Instant Classic.”
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Three vectors reject cultural and technical standardization and invent...
– from Camila Alvarez’s review of Anna Munster’s Materializing New Media. (rhizomes.net).
Munster’s baroque theory of the digital resonates. I need to know more.
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There is perhaps no better symbol of the information age than the infographic....
– from “My Remarkable, Famous Graph” - trailmeme.com
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The secrets to Coco’s success, and the dozens of girls that have come before and...
– from “how supermodels are like toxic assets.” (3quarksdaily)
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I’m moving to Evanston in September for grad school, and I need someone...
– facebook marketplace is a joke.
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Use difficulty as a guide not just in selecting the overall aim of your company,...
– Paul Graham in his essay on Wealth also in his book “Hackers and Painters.”
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