September 2009
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Edward Gelsthorpe, 88 →
“Very aggressive marketers make fashion,” he told The New York Times in 1973. “They don’t wait for the groundswell. They build a consumer desire.”
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“Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less...”
– Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek Sivers (via slantback)
in case you were wondering why i don’t sit here all day and postulate about real shit going on.
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Stuff →
patrickrhone:
In industrialized countries the same thing happened with food in the middle of the twentieth century. As food got cheaper (or we got richer; they’re indistinguishable), eating too much started to be a bigger danger than eating too little. We’ve now reached that point with stuff. For most people, rich or poor, stuff has become a burden.
Yep.
You’re not your job....
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Watch“comprende star-burns?”
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“Facebook wants to aggregate status between friends. Twitter wants to aggregate...”
– Hacker News
One of the better descriptions of the difference between Twitter and Facebook that I’ve read. I don’t think they are at war the way major media publications portray them to be. Facebook is closed, Twitter is open. Facebook will never be Twitter.
(via bleikamp)
you heard it here...
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i was tying my shoes.
i can’t remember which shoe it was, but my roommate at the time and i were getting ready to go to class. he told me to check out the tv and i called my family.
that morning, our professor took us into the control room of the tv studio to watch news reports and she left crying, telling us we could do whatever we wanted.
loss of family friends, colleague’s spouses; stories of near...
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“And too often, we fill that void with instant commentary and celebrity gossip...”
– Barack Obama at Walter Cronkite’s memorial service (via squashed) (via mikehudack)
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sky cake - patton oswalt
thanks, h.
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Watch“babe i’m gonna leave you” on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
the first video i’ve ever uploaded to flickr.
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“…Looking at life like this has changed my perspective. I’ve been able to...”
– alex ratcliffe-lee: opposites
broseph talks about value judgements.
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“But the Internet did something else to the news. By putting everyone on a 120MPH...”
– Basement.org: On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing (via 43folders)
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The US Open 2009 - Grand Slam Tennis - Official... →
the “Watch Live” feature is better than actual television.
i have it on all day & night in the background. great execution. think about it, when was the last time you went to the actual site for the sport, tournament, whatever to either get information or watch? it’s a rarity. i’m glad my favorite sport - tennis - is making these strides.
late summer/early fall is...
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“The algorithms and tag searches and bookmarklets will only get you so far;...”
– Three definitions of “reader” / from a working library (via jackcheng)
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Google Domestic Trends →
Google Domestic Trends track Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. Changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide unique economic insight.
this is interesting to me.
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“If I want to get home from work, the market offers me a choice between a Ford...”
– Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope
interesting read via a & l daily. time constraints have led me to neglect the longer stuff highlighted on there - i need to make a point to get back into them.
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