October 2009
37 posts
“Rand’s particular intellectual contribution, the thing that makes her so popular...”
– Adam Kirsch, Ayn Rand’s Revenge, NYT (via barthel)
“(917): well..after leaving the bar you handed me your wallet and said you didnt...”
– texts from last night
Halloween Costume Suggestions for Girls
topherchris:
Slutty zombie
Slutty Barack Obama
Slutty Walmart shopper
Slutty obstetrician
Slutty Malcolm Gladwell
Slutty psychotherapist
Slutty hobo
Slutty Spock
Slutty foley artist
“San Francisco is also, perhaps infamously, an intellectual and cultural bubble...”
– Alex Payne (via marco)
“I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. (via @dens) I can’t remember the last time the internet made me laugh this hard.
“If an interaction is fun, design it with more friction. If it’s boring, design...”
– Joey Roth (via jackcheng)
…is it just me or is the ‘Tumblr Wire’ now mostly just tits?
(don’t get me wrong…just sayin…)
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WatchI decided to watch a few minutes of ‘Objectified’ before I fell asleep tonight, and I couldn’t turn it off — if you’re even tangentially interested in design, you really want to see this film. Official site is here.
“Belief in conspiracy theories can be comforting. If everything that goes wrong...”
– The Economist in a great article on political craziness. (via marco)
“But the rate of such changes that are relevant to average people has plummeted...”
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Marco.org - Why hasn’t Vista sold well?
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted...”
– David Foster Wallace (via tmblg) (via littlewhiskey) (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via petersantiago) (via peterwknox)
“The user experience mindset is an acquired condition for which there is no cure.”
– Jesse James Garrett at UX Week (via joshuakaufman)
“This is the only real real challenge, in my opinion. (It’s also the one I’ve...”
– Saving the Magazine Industry: Here’s What Happens Next « Netly: The Third Screen
Watchvideo i shot on Haight today — 8mm style.
“I could have told the Wave people about what I’d learned, except I didn’t know...”
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The Lost Lesson Of Instant Typing | Thought Palace
“To the engineers familiar with Microsoft’s internal operations who spoke...”
– AppleInsider | Microsoft’s Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage
“If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets...”
– Shouts & Murmurs: Subject: Our Marketing Plan : The New Yorker
Awesome HTML5 Audio/Canvas Experiment →
via (@colin)
WatchWow.
“An ad that pretends to be art is — at absolute best — like somebody who smiles...”
– DFW. I can’t help but hear his voice reading this.
Don't Move The Goalposts
Dear Religious Fanatics on the news claiming Religious Profiling,
If you want special police protection from protesters because it happens to be outside your Mosque, don’t be surprised when they also show up asking about your ‘Behead Those Who Cartoon Islam’ sign. Be aware of the hole you’re digging for yourself while you pose as a cringing minority.
“things that are too ‘useful’… well, i don’t entirely...”
– LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy (via ujjwal)
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