August 2008
139 posts
“Sometimes I pass out drunk onto my keyboard (after a dozen pabst, a trip to a...”
– Quinn, on the Adbusters hipster article. (via cameronr)
July 2008
132 posts
To All the George Orwell Fans
rore:
rocketboom:
“George Orwell diaries to be published as blog
The first entry will be posted on August 9, exactly 70 years to the day since the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four wrote it.
Running until 1942 the diaries cover the start of the Second World War as well as Orwell’s own travels to Morocco following the illness and injuries he sustained while fighting in...
“Full user customizable interfaces are the FAILURE of the design process.”. In...”
– Twitter / Folletto: “Full user customizable int… (via sid05)
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity...”
– Sir Cecil Beaton (via onherway)
“sometimes design dissolves in behaviour and then quickly sublimates into...”
– via T5: Expectations of agency (via danw) (via slantback)
After Living In California My Whole Life...
toomuchawesome:
stephenfalk:
…this is the first earthquake I’ve ever watched play out in blog, Facebook updates, and texts instead instead of the news. It’s kind of better this way.
Quick! Someone write a trend piece!
“For example, I learned from the website that the woman I had seen in the headset...”
– Joel Spolsky, August 2008 Inc. magazine, pg. 67, referring to the person in the headset taking orders from customers waiting in line (via jnunemaker)
“How do you know a great entrepreneur when you meet one? Great entrepreneurs...”
– Know Your Competition - VentureBlog (via mikehudack)
Warner's Dark Night Anti-Piracy Strategy →
cameronr:
Warner Bros. executives said the extra vigilance paid off, helping to prevent camcorded copies of the reported $180-million film from reaching Internet file-sharing sites for about 38 hours.
chuckmore: The intricate sneakiness that was involved in keeping copies from leaking was taken to unprecedented levels — they devised a strategy for over six months — and all it bought them was a...
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to
experience the...”
– Alan Keightley (via jnunemaker)
Map of Religious Expansion →
onemoretimewithfeeling:
See 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds.
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
– Douglas Adams (via rlrr)
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
– Robert Capa Projectionist: A tumblelog (via jnunemaker)
glamorouswhimsy:
Most of us of a certain age can recall the famous Grey Poupon commercial wherein one luxury car owner answers another’s mustard-related query (“Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?”) with a courteous “But of course” before handing the stuff over.
Yeah, it turns out that not everyone finds it funny in real life. The Smoking Gun tells the story of a Grey Poupon prank gone...
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright,...”
– Bansky (thanks denki! You were right!) (via bauldoff)
Protestor glues himself to Gordon Brown - RTÉ News →
travors:
A campaigner from the anti-climate change group Plane Stupid super-glued himself to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown during an event last night.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him. The...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via topherchris)
Can someone do a count of how many times the word “ecosystem” was used in the Facebook F8 keynote? Stop being intentionally vague — it makes you sound stupid.
“No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a...”
– John Donne (via edatrix)
Regrets
cajunboy:
I’ve come to the realization that anyone who says that they don’t have any regrets in their life is either someone who hasn’t done much living, someone who doen’t think very deeply, or someone just devoid of this little thing called a soul.
onward
thenextbigsound:
The blog has been sparse lately. Sparse can be sad and we don’t want that. Here’s what’s up: the Sounding Board is currently playing with the first version of the site. In the coming weeks the site will open up to the world. If you’d like to be notified please enter your email address on thenextbigsound.com. Yay.
“No one at 22 is already the person they are going to be for the rest of their...”
– Mom. (via jessicap)(via byrdie) (via peterwknox)
Are Facebook Ads Going to Zero? Lookery Lowers Its... →
“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”
– Robert Orben (via simko)
“Most of the great innovators in the history of the Internet started out in their...”
– No Tolls on The Internet (via azspot)
“I’m not telling you to give your music away for free. But I am telling you it’s...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » In Rainbows
“I’m not telling you to give your music away for free. But I am telling you it’s...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » In Rainbows (via fred-wilson)
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them...”
– Steve Jobs (via enquotations)