July 2010
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Selecting a font is like getting dressed, Ms Strawson says. Just as one chooses...
– BBC News - Do typefaces really matter?
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Because, in addition to being a dick, I’m also the Mayor of Remember Someday...
– Merlin Mann | kung fu grippe
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For a few hours, a thousand or so people were best friends in the world and it...
– Mr. Chris Driver over at Your Morning Rock, on the Gaslight Anthem/Hold Steady show last Thursday. He got it right.
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I don’t think we capture the right moments. The camera flashes and we pose. We...
– Big Contrarian → Pictures. And I’d agree, which is why I try to take the un-posed shots as often as possible, because those are the fun ones.
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The weight of stars
There are three albums I would call favorites - a kind of musical trinity that includes Smashing Pumpkins’ “Siamese Dream,” KMFDM’s “Nihil,” and Type O Negative’s “October Rust.”
All three classics. All three born in the mid ’90s. And I can never determine which one is my absolute, king-hell, ranking favorite.
But what if I...
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The scientific space program is small change compared to the errors in the...
– Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection
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‘Our very way of life is under siege,’ said Mortensen, whose...
– Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be | The Onion
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iPhone 4 me
Andy Ihnatko on the iPhone 4’s FaceTime:
And which when you think of it, FaceTime represents the strongest of all possible strong-arm tactics in family marketing.
“Well, sure, Dad … I suppose you could buy an Android-based phone, if that’s what you really want,” a seven-months-pregnant daughter will say via email. “I guess I assumed you’d be buying an...
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June 2010
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Palin has figured out that this is really all you have to do to win elections in...
– I, Sarah Palin, Goes Redneck - Matt Taibbi
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At our tenth reunion, held at the now-disappeared Moose Club in Champaign, there...
– Talking ‘bout my generation - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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The Church of Scientology forbade individuals from reading of the OT III Xenu...
– From Xenu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Community leaders urging AT&T to bring 3G to... →
So help me, yes.
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The realtime web has become a habit. It’s a twitch. I do it without thinking....
– Tweetage Wasteland : Say Hello to My Little Friend
JOE BARTON WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO: BP, FOR GETTING OUR OCEAN ALL MIXED UP IN...
– Joe Barton Would Like To Apologize
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It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause...
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. (via Big Contrarian)
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30 And Under - 'Don't Settle'
[I gave a shorter, punchier version of this essay at Jackson Magazine’s 30 And Under banquet, as a way to warn these ambitious young professionals what was in store for them. They probably already knew the second part, but the first part was 30 And Under wisdom after I was honored last year.]
There’s not much tackier than unasked for advice, so we’ll call these next two...
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Clients From Hell: The Forbidden Fruit →
Client: Hey, just one final question before I send the deposit. Do you use a PC or a MAC?
Me: I use a MAC.
Client: That is a problem. Do you have access to a PC? I am not a supporter of Apple products.
Me: No, I don’t have access to a PC, but this will have little to no effect on the work…
Client: I am a Christian and Apple products are sinful, I do not want our website to be created...
May 2010
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I write out of a greed for lives and language. A need to listen to the orchestra...
– Barry Hannah
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The weird go pro
Seth Godin:
Laying out the design of a page or a flyer so it looks like a pro did it takes about ten times as much work as merely using the template Microsoft builds in for free, and the message is almost the same…
Except it’s not. Of course not. The message is not the same.
The last ten percent is the signal we look for, the way we communicate care and expertise and professionalism....
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Marco Arment on Microsoft →
marco:
The Microsoft of today is a bureaucratic, inefficient behemoth throwing tons of cash around to do absolutely nothing remarkable or compelling. Their products are wasteful and underwhelming, and their marketing campaigns are puzzling at best.
Indeed. It’s so easy these days not to use Windows, Office, or a Windows-based phone thingy. They’re constantly playing catch-up.
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BBC News - 'Artificial life' breakthrough... →
Scientists: “Pay no attention to the grey goo growing in the petri dish.”