February 2009
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“When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties,...”
– Tarthang Tulku (via tratlee)
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SECOND HELPINGS: Journalism on the move: Day 3 →
Jack LaLanne was here, too, with his juicer. I wasn’t here for it, but colleagues who were said that he didn’t know how to use the machine and he got a little grabby with the women. One wanted to slap him, but you don’t slap Jack LaLanne.
classic memory from bill pitcher. he’s documenting the record move newsrooms. emphasis mine.
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“Usability, folks. It’s not just for breakfast anymore.”
– Khoi Vinh
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“We’re not advocating that you abandon your business objectives; we’re saying...”
– Make the Internet a Better Place | Who the Hell Do We Think We Are?
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News as a hook for context →
I’m not arguing that news organizations should create repositories of useless topics in the hope that one day some calamity will make those topics relevant. I’m saying journalists should ask themselves what’s most important for their communities to know, and cover it diligently. Not with the expectation that the coverage will draw an instant wave of traffic, but with the understanding that if it’s...
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Macroanonymous Is The New Microfamous →
One of the most interesting things about 4chan is that nothing gets archived. Threads disappear within an hour. It’s a contradiction — 4chan is known for creating memes, yet it’s designed for them to die so quickly.
The lack of retention lends itself to having fresh content. The joke is that 4chan post is a repost of a repost of a repost. There was a guy who was downloading...
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shane henderson.
by my cousin shane.
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Q&A: Can drinking coffee raise my cholesterol... →
But the studies have found that other brewing methods might boost both total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. The Scandinavian boiled, Turkish/Greek/Mediterranean (shown), and French-press brewing methods addressed in these studies produced coffee with relatively high levels of cafestol and kahweol. Espresso contains more of the oils, and even boiling water poured onto ground coffee can result in...
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WatchTom Jones - LA BLOGOTHEQUE
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making good.
i’m finally heading to dallas for a weekend next month. i promised tracy i’d visit ever since she moved down there.
after years of her nagging, fantastic airfare prices and generally being over the crappy nj weather - i’m going. bonus? it’ll be the weekend before st. patty’s day. can texas do it right? we shall see.
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“If you work on something for five years, that’s more than 20 percent of your...”
– Dean Kamen, in the fascinating fly-on-the-wall book by Steve Kemper, Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition (via jackcheng)
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Yves Montand - Rue St. Vincent
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“…I had to remind myself that their disappointment would fade with time.”
– annamarie’s mom
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Questions for Felix Rohatyn →
You had a precarious childhood. I did have a precarious childhood. I wonder if your passion for infrastructure is rooted in a fear that everything around you is about to collapse. That’s possible.
again, stellar.
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“Here’s the problem with copying: Copying skips understanding. Understanding is...”
– Why you shouldn’t copy us or anyone else - (37signals)
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the art of letting go.
how do i feel? pretty okay. honestly, it’s not bothering me that much. odds are, i’d probably never get much use out of them anyway.
i’m one of the few (or maybe one of the many) who lost a lot of data when ma.gnolia went down last week. it’s looking grim. there are ways to recover stuff by parsing this and digging up that. unfortunately, for me, i’ve got...