August 2010
41 posts
“They still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want...”
– Eben Moglen in this really great talk called Freedom in the Cloud, recommended to me by the gentlemen at Diaspora, for whom this talk was a kind of ‘seed’ that inspired them to build something (see what I did there).
Note: if you are not a geek/hacker/nerd, you will not find this...
Sell Sell: An Open Letter To All Of Advertising... →
boxofmeat:
“I was watching the telly the other day, when on came an advert. It was (I think) selling sausages. It turns out that they wanted me to go to the internet after watching their advert, and instead of looking at pornography, go to their microsite (which is kind of like a website that nobody goes to), and then put up a video. A video that I would make.”
ChicagoType →
morrowplanet:
“An ongoing project documenting interesting typography in Chicago.”
““Turns out, when you’re falling you don’t actually see in slow...”
– Why A Brush With Death Triggers The Slow-Mo Effect : NPR
“There has been a time in the evolution of everything that works when it...”
– Leo McGarry
“Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That’s why people proposing to...”
– What Happened to Yahoo
“Worthwhile. Now, there’s an American word. Worth-while. Worth-your-while. The...”
– How to Take a Walk
“The two argued before the passenger told Slater to “f— off”, the official said....”
– JetBlue Flight Attendant Pops Open Plane Chute at JFK, Slides Away
“The paper is about 100 pages, and looks serious (but being a decade away from...”
– P ≠ NP— Greg and Kat’s blog
One of my favorite games to play at the airport is “Guess Where This Plane Came From” by looking at the people who’ve just landed and are walking out of the gate. Does anyone else do this?
WatchAl Pacino Checks His Bank Balance
(Came across this the other day and couldn’t stop laughing — sorry for the horrendous quality, only copy I could still find online…)
Just found two halves of a $5 bill in my back pocket which surfaced vague memories of tearing it in half last week in a Nashville bar to prove a point.
No idea what the point was but I imagine I proved the shit out of it.
“In one way, I suppose, I have been “in denial” for some time, knowingly burning...”
– Hitchens on battling cancer. (via cajunboy)
“They are moving the high-frequency services as close to the exchanges as...”
– Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders
WatchAwesome visualization of MUNI vehicle traffic during June (via)
WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File →
In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.”
