June 2008
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“FUCK ART, EAT VEGETABLES”
– some grafifiti I saw once in a burnt out fruit shop (via riazm)
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“Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take...”
– Bernard Meltzer (via affremblequotes)
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“…and if there was ever a time for my [sic] to put my emphasis on the...”
– PTRBKR: Hiatus, Redux
maybe not as substantial as peter, but i’m going to be in vermont for the next week and then some. i’m sure i’ll pop up here and there but the best things will be captured on film and in my memory, to be shared at a later date.
“But, we also tend to radically underestimate the impact of the dozens of small...”
– Coding Horror: Revisiting the XML Angle Bracket Tax (via slantback)
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God accused of selling cocaine near Tampa church →
this might be the high-point for whomever the AP reporter was that penned this glorious headline.
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“When you force people through mild social anxiety, they thank you for it later.”
– Seth Godin’s Blog
So true.
(via superamit)
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Safari Not Created to Promote Openness, Innovation... →
camh:
Safari Not Created to Promote Openness, Innovation and Opportunity Earlier today Mozilla launched the third major version of Firefox, after being unavailable for almost half of their much…
click through and read. cameron makes solid points and back up, partially, why i used safari now instead of firefox. more so, i’m starting to understand the strong correlations between hardware...
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teaching & learning.
about a 6 months ago, someone stole almost all of my photography equipment.
since then, i’ve been taking barely palatable cell phone images. these are captures. they’re not images you put yourself into. i never realized the difference until others started pointing it out to me.
ever since the robbery, i was focused on the fact that i let something like that happen. i’m...
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WatchChad Johnson: Chad Johnson Is An Interviewer’s Dream
“you look good today.” lol. via tom.
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a fresh pair of socks.
thanks to bill israel, jratlee.com is ready for a night out on the town. i’ve been working with bill for several months now and i can’t recommend him higher if you’re looking to have your tumblr-powered site given a fresh face.
a lot of you might think, “so what?” and you’re probably exactly on-point. it wasn’t that long ago that i worked with cameron...
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"Fallacy of the single cause"
jakoblodwick:
The fallacy of the single cause is a logical fallacy of causation that occurs when it is assumed that there is one, simple cause of an outcome when in reality it may have been caused by a number of only jointly sufficient causes. (Wikipedia)
Successful creative people deal with this all the time. An admirer asks a famous photographer, “What kind of camera do you use?”, as if a...
“Canadian cities dominate the rankings in the Americas. Vancouver (4) has the...”
– Quality of Living global city rankings (via peterwknox)
having lived in the don mills section of toronto for a year of my life, i can certainly vouch for this.
How to Live With Just 100 Things - TIME →
100 Thing Challenge, a grass-roots movement in which otherwise seemingly normal folks are pledging to whittle down their possessions to a mere 100 items.
via consumerist
Watch8 year olds. oklahoma. fully automatic weapons. holy shit, jason.
“Really sweet guy,” Mandy Misagal, one of the bar’s three owners, who was...”
– A Night Out That Became a Night In. In the Bar. - NYTimes.com
“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t...”
– Peter McWilliams (via enquotations) (via tlc)
i cannot stress more how important this is on almost every single level.
“Capital letters, punctuation, and grammar exist to help codify ideas and clarify...”
– Marco.org Tumblelog: lowercase vs. Uppercase.
there are two sperate but, as marco points out, related arguments going on here. asthetics vs. function. he’s correct, especially when it comes to reading. no one really reads every letter. capitalization acts as a key for your brain. you see...
[On writing] Skybus, Slicehost, how to write good... →
if part of your life (job or otherwise) involves communicating well, these are some great suggestions.
“On Friday’s show, I announced my mission to do everything advertising and...”
– NPR: Just Do It.
'Uncreative Writer' Retypes the 'New York Times' :... →
He typed an entire issue of the New York Times into an 840-page book called Day. He recently completed a trilogy, The Weather, Traffic and Sports. They are transcriptions of a year of radio weather reports, a 24-hour traffic cycle and the radio broadcast of a Yankees game. Ums, uhs and ads included.
via 2point8
Speed Bumps Just Don't Excite Me (Nobody Wants A... →
this might be menial but brett offers up some good reasoning for why both he and (subsequently) i aren’t overly excited for Apple’s next telephone iteration.
“Maybe you still spend money on videogames or on handbags. Maybe you eat out too...”
– Closing the Gap Between Dreams and Reality ∞ Get Rich Slowly
Financial Analysis of Peacekeeping
dihard:
“Every time a conflict in some poor and chaotic place simmers down to the point where peace has a chance, rich countries with an interest in reconstructing that country face a choice: do they merely provide economic aid, or should they also dispatch troops - their own or other countreis’ - to nail down and enforce the peace?”
A cost-benefit financial analysis of the situation in a...
The E-mail-Free Presidency →
hrmph. there hasn’t been an e-mail sent by an American President since 1993? great.
“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write...”
– Alvin Toffler (via derek)