June 2010
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“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy,...”
– A. Einstein (via walksinbeauty) (via bringtheruckuss) (via asprettyasasong)
May 2010
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What to do with your millions. →
Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn’t need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn’t let a job get in the way.
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Barking up the wrong tree - Just the interesting... →
the kind of blog i would be writing if i wasn’t busy posting photos of custom ben stiller headbands.
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Ok Seriously, What Is Yahoo? →
a rare, astute insight from the land of ‘crunch. mike is right, for $47.2 million, carol bartz not only gave a real shitty answer but pretty much confirmed the fact that yahoo! doesn’t know what it is or where it should be going.
seriously, it was cute but when you’re making news for telling someone to “fuck off” and not because of anything else - that’s a...
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“Some things in life justify themselves emotionally, without necessity for...”
– Norman Thomas
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This is not content →
What people want is opinions, analysis, techniques, experiences, and insights. The best of all these come as a bi-product from actually doing stuff. The closer you are to the topics, the more natural you’ll be able to extract the goodies.
boom goes the dynamite.
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“…globalization and information technology are not transforming the international...”
– Andrew Bacevich (via azspot)
so, i was in this relatively important meeting yesterday where i was asked, “why this?” ’this’ as in connecting my personal interest in technology with my professional pursuits as a communications professional.
i didn’t stumble and i had...
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“With all due respect, you can hold on to your skinny jeans, narrow ties, and...”
– The Gentlemen’s Standard
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Guys, let's figure out what we're doing and do it.
putthison:
suitsandboots:
I see too many dudes every day who have no idea what they’re doing: guys who have no idea how to dress, how to drive, how to lift weights, how to eat/drink, how to sit, how to listen, how to speak, how to spell, how to write, how to think for themselves, or how to even live their lives.
I very, very rarely meet a fellow gentleman and then later think to myself, “He...
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Putting a Price on Words →
That’s precisely the problem: the sheer volume of words has overwhelmed a business model that was once based on scarcity and limited choice.
andrew does a great job of breaking down the business predicament surrounding digital journalism. the greater publishing industry of yesterday didn’t understand the value of their content in relation to the new technology driving advertising’s...
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“This seemingly nothing little slide actually reveals huge truths about the...”
– Google Believes Online Ads Could Be Worth More Than Print Ads by 2012 - The Awl
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Showroulette →
When people talk about serendipity, they’re not always talking about discovering some thing that’s totally brand-new. In fact, I’d hazard that they’re USUALLY talking about randomly unearthing some thing that’s comforting and familiar. this is why TBS has been so successful.
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“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
– Bob Dylan
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The Demise of Datebooks →
But what else can a calendar do? It’s hard to remember, surveying my dull Google version (“parents in town,” “book club”), that a Filofax was also a place for plot arcs, self-invention and self-regulation. It was, in every sense, a diary — a forward-running record, unlike backward-running blogs. The quality of the paper stock, the slot for the pen, the blank but substantial cover, the hints of...
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“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of...”
– Carl Sagan (via mills) (via syntheticpubes, danielholter)
carl is the man. i was on a sagan kick in jr. high.
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“After a few accumulated hours of reading, I realized something was awry in my...”
– Pages: a concept changed forever? | tombiro.com
my favorite point that tom raises later is that a “page” might’ve shifted from being a controlled publisher mechanism to a user-defined “modal input.”
yeah, i just made “modal input” up.
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Happy in Jersey →
Which Americans are the happiest? Asian-Americans living in New Jersey, according to the American Human Development Project.
I MEAN, LOOK AT THIS SMILE ALL OVER MY FACE.
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How 'The Karate Kid' Ruined The Modern World →
The world demands more. So, so much more. How have we gotten to adulthood and failed to realize this? Why would our expectations of the world be so off? I blame the montages. Five breezy minutes, from sucking at karate to being great at karate, from morbid obesity to trim, from geeky girl to prom queen, from terrible garage band to awesome rock band.
this hit me while enduring an amazingly shitty...