March 2009
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Stafford (band) - Wikipedia →
erik shared this link on facebook. i had no idea it even existed. i updated the discussion page with links to all the photos i took and design work i did.
oh the days of bad photoshop filters and trips to the diner after shows, how i miss you.
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Questions for Donald Trump - If He Builds It →
What’s your I.Q.? Very high. They don’t get any higher.
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“There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit...”
– John Gruber, as ever, encapsulating the blah blah blah into a succinct, memorable, and paint-peelingly candid précis. Damn. (via 43folders)
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The Greene Space →
A multipurpose, multiplatform street-level studio and performance venue, THE GREENE SPACE represents a new dimension for WNYC, transforming the public radio station from an on-air and online destination into a cultural destination as well. THE GREENE SPACE invites audiences to experience a range of presentations and productions – from live radio shows with WNYC hosts to exclusive commissioned...
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“Third, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance...”
– Peter F. Drucker (via jakelodwick)
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First rule of ant traffic: no overtaking →
Physicists have long known that these effects are closely linked to the density of traffic. Below some traffic density threshold, the flow is always smooth; but creep above this limit and all kinds of traffic chaos ensues. Now Alexander John at the University of Cologne in Germany and few mates have studied the traffic flow along trails made by Leptogenys processionalis, a more or less average...
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“What’s a good example of a disruptive company? Why, Twitter, which...”
– The Roots of Facebook’s Redesign Crisis
my ambivalence about this subject is slowly turning into an opinion that is falling on the side of the masses: that this re-design wasn’t a good idea. i work in digital media and frequent facebook but there are many times where i don’t have...
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WatchSuperNews! Twouble with Twitters // Current
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Goodbye Google →
When I joined Google as its first visual designer, the company was already seven years old. Seven years is a long time to run a company without a classically trained designer. Google had plenty of designers on staff then, but most of them had backgrounds in CS or HCI. And none of them were in high-up, respected leadership positions. Without a person at (or near) the helm who thoroughly understands...
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Notes on Dallas
Tracy gives a pretty good re-cap. Here are my notes:
Traveling with nothing but personal effects is really nice. Not that I knew what it was like, but it felt like I was traveling in a gilded age. My one bag was checked and all I had to care about was which pocket my cell phone was in.
For the flight down, I purchased and read the most recent issues of Esquire and The Economist. Both were...
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“We cannot attract and retain the best and the brightest talent to lead and staff...”
– Edward Liddy, CEO, American International Group
Economic Scene - Retention Pay for A.I.G. Workers to Fix Their Mess - NYTimes.com
(via mikehudack)
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Watchjstn:
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Jack came up with the idea for this one, I wrote , shot, and edited it.
This is my favorite Vimeo video yet. Watch it!
I thought they were over-hyping this. They were under-hyping it.
Incredible.
ah shit, so good.
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verbosr - because brevity sucks →
Thanks for signing up to learn more about verbosr. We’ll reach out soon with more information, some of which might include what our service does, how you might go about using it, our thoughts on nuclear proliferation, or how our service may cause you to lose massive amounts of time that you had previously scheduled for other activities. We understand that you are probably signing up for as...
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Friday the 13th: Continental Plane Crashed →
i’m flying continental. out of EWR. today is friday, the 13th.
oomph.
let’s hope DFW has better karma than buffalo.
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billion dollar sideburns.
he’s worth $2.1 billion but i’m going to call “FIRST” on this one.
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“The idea, the president said in remarks before an audience of lawmakers,...”
– Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times (via ratcliffe-lee)
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Stepping to the Fore as a Backup Band →
In short, the greatest revelation of the first week of “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on NBC was that it’s wholly plausible that the Roots are funnier than their host.
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“Animal cookies, animal crackers, and related taxa are known to most people in...”
– Mark E. Eberle (via mike)
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Watchso good (via Hilarious Teaser Trailer for Vegas Comedy The Hangover « FirstShowing.net).
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Do you miss this?
Remember when trusting the salesperson was cool? What if that returned? What if Googling something wasn’t the only way to arm yourself with knowledge?
Maybe I’m romanticizing, but there was a day when the person selling you something was the absolute expert. I miss that.
Not that I wouldn’t do research ahead of time, or in addition, but trust needs to come back to the...
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fresh gear.
it was about that time.
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Important Information You Can Absolutely Not Live...
Ellen Folely, a public defender on the second season of Night Court, also sang back-up vocals on Meatloaf’s 1977 album, Bat out of Hell.
You’re welcome.
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My New Gun →
Jimmy took me to the Army-Navy Store on Grape Street. It was 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, and 15 normal-looking — I was relieved to see — people were leaning on the gun counter at the back of the store. Jimmy explained the differences between the Glocks, semiautomatics with magazines, and the Smith & Wesson revolvers with six bullet chambers. The clerk told us a lot of handguns were out...