August 2010
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Aug 1st
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July 2010
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Jul 31st
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Balanced People Don’t Change the World →
But the other thing to think of, it’s that being unbalanced (for lack of a better word) doesn’t mean you have to go into destructive genius mode. I don’t know if it’s your family or your health, but if you really want to head off in pursuit of a big dream, something’s gotta give. It’s up to each of us to determine what that’s going to be and how...
Jul 30th
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“Distilling my personality provided surprising focus, making feel stripped to my...”
– Peggy Orenstein
Jul 30th
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How I Order an Americano - Shawn Blanc →
When at coffee shops I almost always order a 12-ounce, double Americano with a little bit of half-and-half steamed in. i should try this.  i usually go with a “triple tall with room” which is three shots in the smallest amount of water.  no milk, just three “sugar in the raw” packs. i had read somewhere, a while ago, that this was what the head taster at starbucks always...
Jul 30th
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Jul 30th
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A New Risk Factor: Your Social Life →
The researchers concluded that having few friends or weak social ties to the community is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking nearly a pack of cigarettes a day. Weak social ties are more harmful than not exercising and twice as risky as being obese, the researchers found. GET FRIENDS OR DIEEEEE
Jul 29th
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“If you have the choice to invest more time/money into your user experience or...”
– Experience Precedes Branding (via viiv) Maybe 90% of the time. (via mikehudack) yes, please.
Jul 28th
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“Hey, well, as far as I’m concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.”
– John McClane (via iswarley)
Jul 24th
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WatchWatch
soccer in america.
Jul 24th
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The Art of the Deal as Entertainment →
Procedural voyeurism grants us an illusion of control over realities that we secretly fear we have no power over — sometimes correctly, as with the BP oil spill, whose coverage has been rich in process and until recently short on meaningful developments. The Romanian religious philosopher Mircea Eliade wrote about mesmerizing narratives that he called origin myths. He said they helped people feel...
Jul 23rd
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Vonnegut on Technology →
On replacing human contact with electronic contact: … Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, “Where are you going?” I say, “Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.” And she says, “You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say,...
Jul 22nd
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McSweeney's: Tom Skerritt's speech to the cadets... →
pile: “Even the worst among you here at Top Gun, or the worst of the rest of the best of the best, are better than even the best of the rest of the best.” how you use the internet:  change your profile picture on facebook then re-blog some top gun.
Jul 22nd
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The dangerous art of the right question →
bobulate: Venkatesh Rao on the dangerous art of the right question. Four questions that are, in fact, terrible from the world of business: 1. Who is our customer? 2. What is our market? 3. What is our goal? 4. What problem does our product solve for the customer? They’re terrible, he says, because they’re devoid of information. Instead: Real questions, useful questions, questions with...
Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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Questions for the Novelist Gary Shteyngart - The... →
The death of reading is a longstanding fear of futurists. Maybe we’re all wrong and there’s going to be a huge comeback in 10 years where all the kids are going to drop their iKindles and start reading like crazy. “Dude, did you read the latest Turgenev? It’s so sick. This dude is like all over the subject of love and serfdom.” That would be nice. I don’t know how to read anymore. I can only...
Jul 21st
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De inventione punctus →
All signs sug­gest punc­tu­a­tion is in flux. In par­tic­u­lar, our signs that mark gram­mat­i­cal (and some­times seman­tic) dis­tinc­tions are wan­ing, while those denot­ing tone and voice are wax­ing. Fur­ther­more, signs with a slim graph­i­cal pro­file (the apos­tro­phe and comma, espe­cially) are hav­ing a rough go of it. Com­pared to the smi­ley face or even the ques­tion mark, they’re too...
Jul 14th
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Jul 14th
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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness,...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Tweet. (via lapuravidagallery) (via cmonstah) (via newsweek) (via wearethedigitalkids)
Jul 14th
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Jul 12th
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Everything I Know About Tennis I Learned from Cow... →
Modern technology has created a tennis monoculture, one that is best seen in paths of dead grass. great observation about grass court play in 2010 vs. 30 years ago.
Jul 12th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 10th