Mar. 14 2010

tonight was like this.

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Mar. 13 2010

The nearest kind of association is not mere perceptual cognition, but, rather, a handling, using, and taking care of things which has its own kind of ‘knowledge.’

Mar. 12 2010

Mar. 07 2010

I feel like there’s this tension that goes on in business and especially in marketing, this conceit that we can take humans—you know, messy, irrational, organic—and somehow cut them open and figure out the binary, rational, predictable, money-making algorithms that determine what they do. You see all this harnessing of science, you know, whether it’s neuro-this or lie detector-that or psychotherapy-this that gets used in the service of, not helping people, but helping marketers crack the nut of what people want, where is the desire center in the brain. You know, that we can learn things about people in a way that is “true”—that is predictable and true, and will determine consumption patterns. I find the idea that we should be able to do that just fascinating, because that’s not the world of people that we live in as people, so why as marketers or designers or producers do we think that we should turn people into things that they really aren’t?

Steve Portigal, from a fascinating discussion transposed here. (via chrbutler) (via slantback)

left, without comment, while i - quite frankly - think about it.

Mar. 05 2010

Top 10 Best Roadtripping Songs

bbook:

Looking forward to summer already… can’t ya tell?

1. Sweet Emotion// Aerosmith
2. Hotel California// The Eagles
3. Love You Madly// Cake
4. Where Nobody Knows// Kings of Leon
5. Young Folks// Peter Bjorn & John 
6. Run Around// Blues Traveler 
7. Ramble On// Led Zeppelin 
8. China Girl// David Bowie
9. Love and Memories// OAR
10. Slow Ride// Foghat

today was that day people in the tri-state started to really hope that warm weather is relatively close.  you could just tell by people’s attitudes, the fact that it was friday and the fact that they decided to wear vests instead of jackets even when it was snowing (i.e. me).

btw, hell yes to slow ride!

Mar. 04 2010

Human-flesh Search Engines in China

Human-flesh search engines - renrou sousuo yinqing - have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online with offline results.

Mar. 03 2010

Steampunk Waterslide: 1904 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

regardless of how you feel about steampunk, this looks fun.  and, i could use some fun.