April 2009
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Watchkratlee:
this killed me.
me too.
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Movie Review - Tyson →
Most of the movie consists of the former champ sitting in a house near the Pacific Ocean, speaking into the camera as if no one else were around. This produces an effect of almost unnerving intimacy — it is a bit scary to be so close to him — but also an upwelling, perhaps unexpected, of compassion. It is hard to imagine anyone more radically alone.
via the awl
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But Does Anyone Really Care? →
noah calls attention to some great thoughts on technology behind communication. reads from jackie mason and thoreau:
…After all, the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages; he is not an evangelist, nor does he come round eating locusts and wild honey. I doubt if Flying Childers ever carried a peck of corn to mill.
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“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the...”
– On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca
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“Like I told him, if I can cut somebody from the neck all the way down to the...”
– Dada v. Dysktra - ESPN.com (via keithobrien)
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“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will...”
– The speech Nixon would have given if Neil Armstrong had been stranded on the moon.
How Houston rehearsed its worst ever problem (via mikehudack)
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Why Isn’t the Brain Green? →
There are some unfortunate implications here. In analytical mode, we are not always adept at long-term thinking; experiments have shown a frequent dislike for delayed benefits, so we undervalue promised future outcomes. (Given a choice, we usually take $10 now as opposed to, say, $20 two years from now.) Environmentally speaking, this means we are far less likely to make lifestyle changes in order...
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Let Them Eat Tweets - Why Twitter Is a Trap →
“Connectivity is poverty” was how a friend of mine summarized Sterling’s bold theme. Only the poor — defined broadly as those without better options — are obsessed with their connections. Anyone with a strong soul or a fat wallet turns his ringer off for good and cultivates private gardens that keep the hectic Web far away. The man of leisure, Sterling suggested, savors solitude, or intimacy with...
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Hey neighbor, are you a pirate? →
Over the course of the year, I somehow never managed to run into you. Clearly, all of my observations leads me to believe that you are a OCD, cello-playing pirate who is just really too cheap to pony up for a new mattress.
via tom & alex
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Marketplace: Why you want to cheat on your taxes →
a good look at basic behavioral economics.
i’ve enjoyed the luxury of two members in my immediate family being world-class accountants but finally filing on my own this year, from start to finish, was a much more satisfying experience.
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Harvard: the Inside Story of Its Finance Meltdown →
pile:
“For a long while Harvard’s daring investment style was the envy of the endowment world. It made light bets in plain old stocks and bonds and went hell-for-leather into exotic and illiquid holdings: commodities, timberland, hedge funds, emerging market equities and private equity partnerships. The risky strategy paid off with market-beating results as long as the market was going up. But...
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WatchI share, therefore I am.
re: shared narratives.
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no more cheap thrills.
digg is okay. it’s not a bad site and it has value to some people.
i just never got into it. that doesn’t mean i won’t in the future; but it also doesn’t mean i’m going to go out of my way either.
in the meantime, i’ve blocked DiggBar on jratlee.com. why?
quite frankly, a better argument was made.
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“What makes all this melodrama so interesting today is that we are all in the...”
– Merlin Mann (via syntheticpubes)
i’m all about this shit. just had a long phone conversation about it as well.
i’ve got my flak jacket and i just kicked yours into the corner, just far enough away where you can’t really reach it.
enjoy.
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Against Realtime →
The future is now, more so than ever. Silicon Valley, filled with worshipers of the new, has embraced “realtime” as the latest trend. If it didn’t happen in the last 10 minutes, it doesn’t matter. … This relentless neophilia is based on the notion that information only has value if it’s fresh. That the only news is breaking news. That the only thing you want...
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“SOUTH PARK MURDERED ME LAST NIGHT AND IT’S PRETTY FUNNY. IT HURTS MY FEELINGS...”
– Kanye West from his BLOG. (via robhuebel)
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merlin:
New outgoing message.
this is pretty...
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“Secondly, the thing everyone wants to know: who thought up the chicken? Everyone...”
– happy 5th birthday, subservient chicken (via ideawhen)
this is an amazingly detailed look back on a very influential campaign. via @bmwpr.
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“We all make choices about how we live our lives. You can take a paint-by-numbers...”
– Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009 (via jackcheng)
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Elastic Happiness - Anil Dash →
I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to extrapolate on the political impacts we’ll see from a generation growing up seeing elastic artificial intelligence as an important part of keeping harmony in a community of people playing the same game.
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Al Zacharia, apartment broker extraordinaire
marco:
I wasn’t just paying him for 30 minutes of his time — I was saving weeks of mine.
classic argument. i’m very much a fan of this. i have no problem paying for something that gives me exactly what i want and need. isn’t that why currency exists in the first place? it’s your fault if you don’t use it to maximize the one thing you can never get more of: time.
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i'm surprised someone hasn't done this yet.
in addition to your requisite google analytics, i use performancing metrics to gather statistics on people visiting http://jratlee.com & http://ratcliffe-lee.com.
pMetrics sometimes provides data in a much easier-to-digest format. lots of times, you really need to do some digging on GA to find data that is relevant to the casual blogger. beyond that, one of the main reasons i keep pMetrics...
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The Substance of Style, Pt 1
goldenfiddle:
Wes Anderson and his pantheon of heroes (Schulz, Welles, Truffaut)
(make sure to watch the accompanying video)