January 2012
1 post
October 2011
4 posts
today in important Bloomberg headlines
keyholez:
*CHINA SEEKS `HEALTHY, ORDERLY’ MICROBLOG ENVIRONMENT: XINHUA
*INTERNET OFFICE CALLS FOR STRONGER MICROBLOG RULES: XINHUA
*MICROBLOGS TO BE USED TO PROMOTE `SCIENCE, CULTURE, MORALITY’
"I'm thinking printers" →
HP is partnering with Condé Nast to distribute content from magazines by having it sent automatically to your web-connected printer! There is even going to be an “Instant Ink” program that, for a monthly fee, will have the ink you need to print these magazines delivered to your home or office (no word on the paper though). Why subscribe to a magazine when you can subscribe to the raw...
Does the iPhone voice thing seem like a crazy gable? Maybe not. I suppose no one ran off to by TouchPads because Ping was a big dud. Still, it seems like this has the potential to be a disaster. If any other handset maker announced voice control I feel like they’d be dismissed as totally clueless. It’s a statement to the credibility Apple has built up that everyone seems willing to...
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
4 tags
katiebakes:
UM YEAH SO THIS IS WITHOUT QUESTION THE GREATEST SLIDESHOW IN THE HISTORY OF SLIDESHOWS CASE CLOSED END OF STORY IT HAS KILLED ME I AM DEAD.
Due to line breaking I thought just ‘HISTORY OF SLIDESHOWS’ was linked to something and was pretty surprised at how excited I was at the prospect.
July 2011
3 posts
Naomi Wolf on al-Jazeera →
groupuscule:
“As with any addiction, it is very difficult, for neurochemical reasons, for an addict to stop doing things - even very self-destructive things - that enable him to get that next hit of dopamine. ”
We should really stop enabling people with Parkinson’s. They won’t get their life together until they hit rock bottom anyway.
Lake Disappointment →
bestofwikipedia:
Lake Disappointment is an ephemeral salt lake in Western Australia. It was named by the explorer Frank Hann in 1897. Hann was in the area exploring the east Pilbara, around Rudall River. He noticed creeks in the area flowed inland, and followed them expecting to find a large fresh water lake. To his disappointment the lake turned out to be salt, and subsequently it got its name...
June 2011
3 posts
"Embrace Major Life Changes to Grow and Evolve"...
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"Gaga's rep declined to comment on her... →
May 2011
3 posts
seedz:
“What I like are blogs, though, and so I became a fake blogger and wrote a fake blog.” — Firmuhment.
(Can one feign speaking a language?)
April 2011
1 post
March 2011
8 posts
I’m at Homage (New York, NY)
“Getting coffee! Also, trying Gowalla!”
Follow me on Gowalla
More Important Foursquare Coverage →
Does it suggest a pathological relationship with the natural world that it’s typical to mist one’s living space with dilute nerve toxin upon discovering some unexpected but ultimately harmless insects? No, obviously, bugs are gross.
But, more importantly, does being pretty psyched when they’ve all stopped moving mean I am going to be a serial killer/dictator or just that I look...
Weeels Has a New Website! →
2 tags
Cotard delusion →
bestofwikipedia:
The Cotard delusion or Cotard’s syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome is a rare neuropsychiatric disorder in which people hold a delusional belief that they are dead (either figuratively or literally), do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. In rare instances, it can include delusions of immortality. (via sleevia)
So proud!
“But who knows whether (& how) beliefs about the beliefs of a NYT reporter...”
– = non-playing characters?
everyone is a groupuscule: Endasher: Attn: Self-righteous Critics of Media Coverage of Horrific Texas Gang Rape
Does anyone want to hire me!? →
(Look, I need to get it indexed, okay?)
February 2011
11 posts
New Programmable Web post about the foursquare... →
I have spent a while with this already. →
Please, no one use the phrase “internet of things”. I don’t even know where to start.
“The full implications of what amounts effectively to a military coup in the most...”
– The Economist, always with the sunny side.
Vote! →
Watchgloriaj:
Leslie Dach on the Colbert Report
(blogged for posterity)
“In all sincerity, regardless of the current circumstances, I never intended to...”
– What a fucking asshole.
(Also, !!!(…?))
January 2011
10 posts
Something about the Egypt situation, briefly
I’ve seen some articles and posts going back and forth about the role of various internets in the Egypt protests. Similar notions got an extended discussion re: events in Iran. There was that Gladwell piece a few months ago (somewhat in response) that drew fire from uncritical web cheerleaders for daring to say that marching for civil rights took more courage and had more affect than...
PW Post: Facebook Credits Comes Out of Beta,... →
"sufficiently accurate for poetry"
Babbage once contacted the poet Alfred Tennyson in response to his poem “The Vision of Sin”. Babbage wrote,
“In your otherwise beautiful poem, one verse reads,
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
… If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest...
Facebook’s Big Year: A Whole New Approach to its... →
My latest ProgrammableWeb post.
Wrench
izs:
When you have a wrench, all problems look like fucked up nail that didn’t get hammered in quite right.
But if you pull on it, you can straighten it, so really, I don’t see what the problem is, I mean, it couldn’t be more obvious, and clearly, a wrench is the best tool for any jobs it can do.
It’s a really nice wrench, if people would just learn to use it properly, then their nails would...
:-( →
“We see the emerging opportunity to ‘snackify’ beverages and ‘drinkify’ snacks as...”
– Pepsi’s CEO
(via jonathan-deamer)
Oh my god. It is the end times.
(via whitneymcn)
December 2010
18 posts
Re-reading the classics
Yet the need in thinking is what makes us think. It asks to be negated by thinking; it must disappear in thought if it is to be really satisfied; and in this negation it survives. Represented in the inmost cell of thought is that which is unlike thought. The smallest intramundane traits would be of relevance to the absolute, for the micrological view cracks the shells of what, measured by the...
Chindōgu →
bestofwikipedia:
Chindo-gu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, chindo-gu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility...
“Western intellectuals dreamed up the ideas of enlightenment and progress, and...”
– The Economist (regarding the last 400 years, actually rather proudly)
I like when critics and proponents can agree on language
Want to look into the steps involved in becoming a “man of affairs”
UPDATE:
Type of: businessperson » capitalist » person » organism »...
The Snow
It has lost its charm