October 2009
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boomboxes:
“and i am a writer, a writer of fictions, i am the heart that you call home. and i’ve written pages upon pages trying to rid you from my bones.” — the decemberists | the engine driver
I adore this entire record.
GigLocator →
Is Your Business Useless? →
Is Your Business Useless? →
“It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the...”
– Author Unknown (via dhock)
Truth.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
Spinnerette (25)
Blur (20)
The Cribs (20)
Jay-Z (19)
Drake, Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
A question on advertising...
dhock:
If we could track the effectiveness of direct mail or television/radio advertising like we could online banner advertising, would we use them more or less?
The question isn’t would we use them more or less, but how much would the price plummet?
on [fiction] writing.
I’ve been getting the urge to write again, lately.
Not the kind of writing I do on attentionindustry, or the notes I throw together in my garish red moleskine, but the kind of writing I used to do, when I fancied myself a writer.
[For those who don’t know, I went through much of high school, and the first half of university, planning on writing fiction for a living. Plans changed...
Just spilled coffee on my white shirt :|
amyyy:
Now I must embrace looking like a slob all day.
@#$%!
Biggest pet peeve ever.
Sneak Peak | The Hill-Side Scarf →
“North Carolina State University engineers have created a new fingernail-size...”
– Computer World: Engineers create fingernail-size chip that holds 1TB of data
via @gmc
(via weliveinthefuture)
fuckyeahscience
24 Hours: The Starck Mix →
What does a mobile journalist need? →
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apropos of tomorrow's anniversary (one day away...
jaimeleigh:
Oh, but does anybody spend more time than me contemplating their blog?
I’ve been writing fewer personal bullshit posts lately, in part because there’s remarkably less drama in my life and in part because, well, honestly? A couple of my new followers have me questioning what exactly I want this blog to be.
I built this bitch on melodrama and lasciviousness; I built this bitch on...
“Sometimes you have to test someone. Not because you don’t trust them but to see...”
– (via followandreblog) (via monoph0nic) (via pineappleupsidedown)
NO. I had to check the reblogs on this and nobody gets it… don’t do this to people. Please don’t do this to people. I’ve been here, and sometimes somebody great won’t ever come back because they don’t need someone that will risk...
uncredited →
My friend Matt launched a tumblr, where he’ll be discussing UI/UX. Which is what he does. Click it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
The Beatles (97)
Jay-Z (78)
acres of lions (37)
Radiohead (30)
Amanda Palmer (29)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Herd immunity →
jayparkinsonmd:
This is why vaccines are so important.
Herd immunity (or community immunity) describes a type of immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a portion of the population (or herd) provides protection to unprotected individuals. Herd immunity theory proposes that, in diseases passed from person-to-person, it is more difficult to maintain a chain of infection when large numbers...
merlin:
“Because if the internet becomes one of your main sources of artistic nourishment, whether as a curator or a creator, you will starve some of the most pure and vital parts of yourself.”
— Theremina, via everythinginthesky, via claytoncubitt
This pisses me off. Because this is equally true if you get all of your artistic nourishment from the novel, the art gallery, the television or...
peeps, let's treat what we see on askmen.com the...
jaimeleigh:
with a chuckle and an “ahh fuck, I’d probably write something like that, too, if I had to come up with a new way to present the same old motherfucking shit that wasn’t half based in truth the first time.”
The scariest thing in the world is when I see a 17 year old girl who CLEARLY doesn’t treat Cosmo in this way. When I was volunteering with Ontario Youth Parliament (nerd, I...
Google Sucks at New.
attentionindustry:
I’ve been talking at length about the launch of Google Wave. As a product, I don’t feel I can judge accurately yet. As a (soft) launch, I feel very comfortable labeling it a failure.
It’s a failure for a few reasons, the first of these being that Google has never really done anything new before. And unsurprisingly, new is a hell of a lot harder than better.
*Deep...
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell...”
– Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License By Louisiana Justice Of The Peace
Guys, give him a break. He lets black people use his bathroom!
(via rickyv)
(via amyyy)
My (white) father and (black) mother dealt with some of this when they decided to get married. Apparently, lots of people were...
Baby survives after being run over by train →
deepr:
SUPERKID. All the kid suffered was a bump on his head.
Unbreakable, what.
Impressionist Cake →
China’s Hakka Houses →
"Breast Cancer Is A Disease, Not A Marketing... →
See, 'hard' has multiple meanings.
me: how goes the arting?
Randeep: s'alright
Randeep: horses are hard
me: WTF are you drawing?
Nick Denton: “A few cases recently where we’ve... →
Banksy Interview in Swindle →
On 'Social Media Gurus'.
Shaan: If she is a Guru, what does that make us?
Me: Yahweh.
Me: Seriously, if she is a Guru, I'm Buddha.
Me: Or Galactus.
