May 2009
April 2009
“After being Calvin’s best friend for over a decade, Hobbes is packed away in a...”
– Galvin P. Chow, Fight Club: The Return of Hobbes (via vasta)
(this is amazing)
I could not be more proud. →
state of the jon.
so, having turned 25, i’m slightly more optimistic. either that, or the burger i had for lunch was so great i now have hope in the future.
canadian bacon elevates anything from foodstuff to mood altering ambrosia.
suckafuck:
I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
When...
turning twenty-five, grudgingly.
When I wake up tomorrow (probably before I go to sleep tonight) I will have turned 25.
This isn’t momentous, it’s ominous. I’m worried about being 25, if only because the ill-defined list of ‘who I am supposed to be’ for this year has fewer checks than boxes.
The worry is, am I falling behind my expectations because they are unreasonable? Because I’m not...
carry oil for squeaky wheels. →
Whenever there is an online backlash against a brand or product, one of the first things I hear (or usually read) is a reminder that those voicing concerns aren’t a large part, and at times aren’t…
heyitsnoah:
““The shift to reading newspapers online isn’t just sad for vanishing printworks and the demise of the most unbeatably usable and portable of media materials-paper-but it means reading in an accident free way. Without the need to fold and turn, a readers’ key interests of business news, match reports and film reviews can be navigated seamlessly, but without stumbling upon the story of...
content vs object - short version. →
When digital information storage and transfer became the norm, businesses (really, almost all of us) made the same, erroneous assumption: that the content was the value, and the object was waste.
…
Sex or the Internet: What if You Had to Choose? →
meghanasha:
What if you had to choose between two elements that are part of your life? According to a survey released by Intel Corporation, around half of women aged eighteen and older would rather go without sex for two weeks than without access to the Internet.
(Via Divine Caroline)
this makes perfect sense to me. everyone i know has, at some point, gone two weeks without sex. i honestly...
tired of being lectured.
transit advocates remind me of record labels, sometimes.
claiming an entitlement to my transportation needs due to some moral imperative is the same as insisting that people should pay for a CD, and then for the MP3s, and then for the ringtone, because it’s the moral thing to do.
my moral obligation disappears once you insist on not only being mediocre, but nearly vindictively...
the market for communication is flooded. →
[This post is something of a placeholder, transcribing notes I put together for what will hopefully be a somewhat interesting presentation.]
The market for communication is flooded. Mass is dead…
“I accept that there will be disparities in the world. I accept that life is not...”
– Brendan Baker (via vasta)
“You are unpredictable, and spending time with you is a little like being on a...”
– Jonas, in an e-mail, about me, writing the sort of stuff that basically destroys me. (via jaimeleighfairbrother)
(ignoring the emotional impact of things like this, as an attack, this could be taught in universities. the set up, the tone, the subtle repetitions supporting the point. man. this...
look to the webcomics. →
I’ve been reading webcomics for about a decade, now, and every year I get more convinced that no one has figured out the new economic reality better than webcomic creators. And I’m not talking about…
i have powers. →
April 15th, I suggest that Twitter should have a Facebook Connect-style system that would tie user activites (comments) to Twitter accounts.
April 16th, Twitter launches ‘Sign In With Twitter’,…
It actually doesn't matter what you do until...
(via alaskamiller)
(i turn 25 in 7 days, ohgodno.)
Risks of Irritation
We piss people off knowingly, sometimes, having calculated the risk. If we know how long someone is willing to sit on feelings, or how severe the reaction will be, we don’t feel threatened by irritating others.
But anger involves transferrence. I get pissed off ABOUT something, but I get pissed off AT people. Or, my anger leads me to really consider every aspect of my situation that is...
a short comment on twitter.
you can argue it’s useless or inane, but i can explain the value of twitter to me, fairly simply.
i’ve been blogging for more than 2 years at brokengentleman.com, and have been linked / quoted / contacted by, i think, 2 to 3 people i really respect.
i’ve been on twitter for less than a year, and have had ACTUAL CONVERSATIONS with at least a dozen people i really respect, and...
Innovation Parkour →
via Remarkk
fight me! in a digital cartoonish way! →
it would be a time waster, but it doesn’t actually take any time.
the worst biz model in the world. →
I’ve been noticing the continued popularity of the worst business model in the world. (No, this is not a joke-post about twitter.)
The worst business model in the world is conceptually very…
twitter for comments. →
There’s been a fair amount of talk regarding using Facebook Connect comments, since they launched in February. I was somewhat excited at first, because it attached comments to a fairly…
dresden codak makes the most unusually interesting... →
it’s like XKCD, but with a singularity/philosophy/quantum mechanics boner instead of a math/physics/programming boner.
EDIT: oh, and with beautiful, detailed, mindblowing art.
OWWWW. [nokia takes a colossal beating] →
a newspaper experiment.
open your area newspaper of choice.
take note in how many of each article you’d classify under: news; expert opinion; review; fluff.
if the last two sections greatly outnumber the first two (they will, if your experiment is anything like mine) you have identified the problem with the current ‘save journalism’ meme. news is not the dominant element of a newspaper.
if you...
“Meghan, as a person below 40 who was not raised by religious zealots, supports...”
– Best line of the day, via Pareene @ Gawker (Link)
Here's a thought but not a counter-argument.
jaimeleighfairbrother:
bmichael:
The set of all Biblical texts that propagate hate and discrimination: 2.
The set of all non-Biblical texts that propagate hate and discrimination: 2,394,594,302 (approx.)
You are resoundingly incorrect. And I’m more than happy to go verse and chapter with you on this, if you’d like.
i really didn’t want to get involved in this, but the difference...
sometimes i wish THIS was my national anthem.
In days of yore, from Britain’s shore,
Wolfe, the dauntless hero came,
And planted firm Britannia’s flag,
On Canada’s fair domain.
Here may it wave, our boast, our pride,
And joined in love together,
The thistle, shamrock, rose entwine
The Maple Leaf forever!
Chorus:
The Maple Leaf, our emblem dear,
The Maple Leaf forever!
God save our King, and Heaven bless,
The...
great article on human sonar. →
pretty little idea.
Reading the social media profiles of fictional characters got me thinking. I imagine a young person reading about the trials ideas and moods of a tv show character, blissfully unaware that this person they are falling in love with doesn’t exist, that it’s backstory to a program that doesn’t exist in his culture.
I can’t decide whether it would be sad, or happy. And I...
