February 2010
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Dubai's 2 Million Gallon Shark Tank Is Leaking →
So how long do you think it’s going to be until they can’t afford to keep up all this ridiculous shit they’ve built and the entire thing turns into a post-apocalyptic wasteland with lawless bandits scavenging for all of the luxury items no one is around to pay for? Should be exciting!
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Letterheady: Interesting Letterhead Designs →
superamit:
This is a blog deserving of your love, biz+design fans.
tasty.
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Walking in the woods makes you smarter →
bobulate:
Seth Fischer on giving your brain a needed break, or “attention restorative theory:”
When you go for a walk in, say, the woods, you’re using a more subtle “involuntary attention” when looking at things like sunsets or squirrels. When you’re in the city, you’re always avoiding that asshole bicyclist, stepping over that pile of human poo, or spending your brain power ignoring the...
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“I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective...”
– Jennifer Egan
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“The deadly power of rushing about wherever I pleased had not been given me. I...”
– C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy. The idea that speed devalues space -and that such a devaluation impoverishes our experience of the world, deprives us of beauty and adventure- seems true to me, and easily demonstrated: think of the spaces of your childhood!
As a child, you experience the shed in the...
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“We were at the same table when the chips were checked
A gamblin +Rebel+ who...”
– GZA
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WatchMoMA Celebrates Appalachian Filmmakers - WNYC Culture
That tension of holding the camera while living in the community is at the center of all Appalshop films. Appalshop filmmakers shoot, edit, release, and then, they stay. Relationships change and stories develop around them. “If I do something here, and I think it’s beautiful, but then someone from here sees it and thinks I’ve...
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“Ladies” by Lee Fields & The...
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Duffel Blog - News, Tips, and Trips: Duffelup... →
Note from the Admin: John’s Duffel Thanksgiving 2009 was selected “Daily Duffel” for 2/18/10. Daily Duffel authors are invited to comment on their experiences for the Duffelup Journal. This is what John had to say:
I created the Duffel to help me visually manage things I wanted to do…
holler.
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technology, culture and commodities.
from joanne mcneil:
saying i write about “technology and culture” should sound like “autumn and fall” or “movies and film” but it doesn’t quite yet
me, in response:
it will, ppl don’t realize the connection yet. flip side is that those topics - together - shouldn’t be a commodity like “movies.”
this exchange was the beginning of a...
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WatchStuck.
me, trying to be a tough guy.
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Shoveling And The Tragedy Of The Commons →
… Virtually all of the houses with a single occupant or family (as indicated by a single doorbell or knocker) were shoveled clean. Nearly every house with multiple occupants — and most businesses — were unshoveled. … A common good that requires work to maintain is ignored if there is a diffusion of responsibility.
emphasis mine.
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hybrowse.com →
jakelodwick:
What have you been up to, Jake?
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I build a generalized platform for these buttons and called it Kwisi, short for “Know When I See It”, and started testing on some friends’ sites (like the Photojojo Store). The name referred to the idea that sometimes you don’t know exactly what you want — you just have to look around and see what catches your...
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“Silence frees us from the need to control others … A frantic stream of words...”
– Richard Foster (via azspot)
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“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
– Thomas A. Edison (via livejamie)
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fun with nicknames
cthewell:
So Tooth no longer wants to be referred to as The Situation, as he doesn’t wish to be associated with that D-bag on Jersey Shore. No argument here. He came up with a name designed to keep people on the edge of their seats, waiting anxiously for…The Anticipation. I like it. But now I’m jealous and want my own bad ass “I go to the gym, now” nickname. I thought long and hard (that’s...