Apr. 11 2009

What makes all this melodrama so interesting today is that we are all in the midst of an unprecedented and unavoidable global re-thinking of what a lot of things really ‘mean.’ Economy. Home. Family. Security. Entertainment. Identity. You name it. There are a shit-ton of grenades still rolling around on the floor right now, and I’m one of those crazy fringe types who publicly, ardently hopes that at least one of them blows out a few load-bearing walls inside industries that are in overdue need of a bottom-up redesign.

Merlin Mann (via syntheticpubes)

i’m all about this shit.  just had a long phone conversation about it as well.

i’ve got my flak jacket and i just kicked yours into the corner, just far enough away where you can’t really reach it.

enjoy.

Nov. 03 2008

Oct. 15 2008

Data is almost as good as money, but I don’t don’t know of a single consumer Web application where access to data is guaranteed by a third-party private entity, much less by the government.

Aug. 04 2008

Dreams come from the past, not the future. You aren’t bound by them. The dreams are bound by you.

Ice man by Haruki Murakami (via riazm)

never really thought about it this way.  suppose that is right.

Jul. 09 2008

And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.
David Foster Wallace via You Will Be Assimilated (via reversecowgirl) (via krs)