August 2010
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Watchrock ‘n blast 2010.
following up, here’s a pretty cool video if you’re the kind of person wishing an entire major league ballpark was shooting off fireworks while you were singing “free bird.”
more photos from the trip (do what we did, on duffel) and, before that, the pequannock sprint.
upcoming - aziz ansari: dangerously delicious tour, u.s. open women’s...
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35 Life Hacks You Should Know →
(via azspot)
all very good. some i’ve heard of before, most i haven’t.
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“And this post shall be tagged: “We know we want to be famous. We don’t even know...”
– Style
i know it’s hip to move your brand to the next big thing but, what’s even hipper, is doing it well. it’s not just about being “different” in terms of voice, content, etc. from your parent publication - it’s about smart accessibility.
kudos to WaPo.
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Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's →
The Albrechts, who own Trader Joe’s through a family trust, have generally stayed out of the business. They visit the U.S. operation about once a year, and word around the office spreads that “the Germans” are coming.
how can you read that and not think of el guapo?
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Weekend Essay by Jonah Lehrer: How Power Affects... →
Perhaps the corner office could use a few more windows.
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“Do you spend too much on unnecessary household purchases? Blame your television...”
– TV Ads Work. Ask a Debtor. - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
i can see how this is true. sometimes, even if there is something on that i’d watch, i purposely turn my tv off.
there are days i miss not having it.
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SXSW 2011 PanelPicker - No Excuse: Web Designers... →
In a recent interview, Jonathan Ive said “It’s very hard to learn about materials academically, by reading about them or watching videos about them; the only way you truly understand a material is by making things with it.” He’s talking about product design, but the principle is just as relevant to the Web (if not more so). “The best design explicitly acknowledges...
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“For the digitally excluded, the route to the world wide web is via the heart,...”
– Broomeshtick — FirstPlaces. A prototype thing for digital inclusion.
This is one of my favorite paragraphs on the internet right now.
Alone, it could be titled “Why Curation Matters”.
I love it when the commentary on a link is just as clever and insightful as the post it links to.
(via...
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Athletes are different from you and me →
tim carmody is killing it filling-in for jason. click-through for a great read, please.
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The game theory of being a gentleman →
And there I was in the classic dilemma of trying to read a woman’s mind. I was expected to make this trivial choice which no doubt would have non-trivial consequences.
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“There’s too much news on the web; and way too little explanation.”
– Nick Denton
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ambient attention.
what follows is just a quick draft of something i wrote on my phone after arriving in detroit earlier in the week. it was probably 830a and i had been awake since 330a. i was waiting for a colleague’s flight to land and drinking an aforementioned americano…
thinking abt design & attention. watching ppl photo/video fountain in dtw. goals are set w/ assumption of 100%...
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“You’ve got to want to create. It will start when you see the joys of...”
– Productivity Guaranteed | Adam Spooner (via shawn)
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The Permutation Game →
Kant had already said that this proof was baloney, because “existence” wasn’t a predicate like goodness or knowledge. But Russell and analytic philosophy took it one step further. In math and formal logic, existence isn’t a predicate — it’s a quantifier. Like in the sentence, “For every natural number, there is a larger natural number.” We’re not making deep existence...
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“Actually it’s very easy, I don’t have to put on a tie!”
– Hugh Hefner
on cbs sunday morning, after being asked how he keeps his honest, straight-forward image alive. while obviously apparent, this runs a bit deeper. he’s doing something that truly represents him.
he’s not putting on a uniform for some other man.
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