June 2008
“If you can do anything, if you are blessed with a life in a country where food...”
– Jakob Lodwick’s blog: Sadly,
May 2008
“Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
– Charles Dudley Warner (via bullshit)
“In my experience, the thing that has the most significant impact on a movie’s...”
– Brad Bird, Pixar Director in McKinsey Quarterly (via Leland + elgaffney) (via obsessivecompulsive) (via peterwknox)
“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.”
– David Hume (who, in my mind, is the greatest of all the Enlightenment philosophers). (via dailymeh)
“I set up a table outside, and I took some rocks off the ground, and I put the...”
– Good Magazine article on conceptual artist Jonathon Keats. A great metaphor for art in general. (via samreich) i did this in 3rd grade.
New York Times API →
Aron Pilhofer, the paper’s editor of interactive news, says the goal is to “make the NYT programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data.” this is significant.
Weird things about me
marco: I’m a geek, but I don’t like sushi, anime, comic books, or Star Trek. I don’t like fantasy or RPGs, so I’ve never seen Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, and I’ve never played Final Fantasy or any MMORPG. People tell me I’ll like them anyway because they’re so good. Trust me, I won’t. I understand that they’re probably good to you and many other people, but I don’t enjoy that sort of...
gus.
i have a friend and his name is gustave. we call him “gus” for short. he’s part of a pretty large circle of friends that i have and we hang out fairly often. i found out last night that he’s really good at picking up broken conversations. you know when a few people are talking about something and all of a sudden the topic changes and you’re left with the...
“But when I got the job, I had the strange and sudden feeling that it had been...”
– Emily Gould - Exposed - Blog-Post Confidential - Gawker - New York Times
“Where you put your time and attention says a lot about who you are. It says a...”
– Merlin Mann (via simko)
“The truth is we’re not sure what’s happening.”
– Twitter Blog (via suwaowalog) when you’re on the edge, this is all you’ve got.
“Does a computer chip have an astrology? And when it fucks up, does it give you...”
– The Roots, “Rising Down” (via slantback)
“A few readers have pinged me, asking how I can post to other blogs that write...”
– Seth’s Blog (via fred-wilson) big companies need to get this as well. yes, you might be selling something that lots of other people sell but your customers don’t approach you that way. they’d rather see you involved, invested and active with their world instead of the only...
Watchpeterwknox: Price Is Right Idiot is Today’s BIG Thing - MAY 19, 2008 Just in case you were feeling particularly dumb today, here’s someone dumber to make you feel better. oh man, math is great!
“‘The half-inflated air mattress is worse than the floor.’ -Sun Tzu,...”
– Twitter / Adam Lisagor: “The half-inflated air matt…
“You may be afraid of flying, but you get on the plane.”
– Questions for Cynthia Nixon - Chick Crit - Deborah Solomon - New York Times
Press Conference
jakoblodwick: You can ask me a question about any subject, and I will try to answer it on this webpage. Use this submission form. Suggested topics include music, entrepreneurship, relationship advice, and the future. I asked about Tumblr’s impending “Pro” feature set. This seems to be the first public test of the new group-posting tool.
The Presidential Fitness Test Grows Up - Well -... →
i killed this shit in elementary school. even have the signed letter from the prez and everything. wait, that wasn’t his real signature?!
“The woman, by the way, calls me Jamie because when I left the message I said...”
– miss memory: Last, First
Basin Harbor Club On Lake Champlain, Vermont →
BHC officially opened for the season today. highly recommended if you’re looking for a place to vacation this summer.
Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video Comments →
fred-wilson: First, let me say that I am not sure about the utility of video comments. I’ve seen them and even viewed them on Techcrunch and I think they slow down and break up the conversation more than they… like fred, and lots of other people, no one really knows how this will pan out. regardless, if your thing is video, you can now leave a video comment on jratlee.com, ratcliffe-lee.com and...
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more...”
– Claude McPillow (via laureola) (via mareen)
Watchyourmonkeycalled: The Day There Was No News better than that other thing everyone was re-blogging.
06 MCS JCW
Tristan Eaton, 1 of 1 (via NAM)
rach: [Quit classes. Quit jobs. Cash in old savings bonds. Now you have time like warts on your hands. Slowly copy all your friends’ addresses into a new address book. Vacuum. Chew cough drops. Keep a folder full of fragments. An eyelid darkening sideways. World as consipiracy. Possible plot? A woman gets on a bus. Suppose you threw a love affair and nobody came. At...
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via affremblequotes)
“This is especially important since empathy is often not used in a value neutral...”
– Daily Meh