October 2011
26 posts
“This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to...”
– A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
A lovely idea - death as something to be earned, living the phrase ‘when I’m dead I’ll rest.’
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iPad Svpplies
Gordon:
hmmm
we should just get this instead
http: //www.iphone-my.com/ipad/ivictrola-giant-megaphone-ipad/
Matthew:
haha
we could convert an actual victrola for less
Gordon:
let me see if i can find some even more dumb ipad speakers
there are undoubtedly some great options there
svpply, here we come!
success!
http: //svpply.com/item/844228/Angry_Birds_Speaker_Docks_Coming
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“What can I say? It’s a saw. It saws stuff. The best thing about it was the...”
– Amazon.com: Stanley 15-265 Rubber Grip Hacksaw, Fits 8-Inch, 10-Inch and 12-Inch Blades: Home Improvement
Ordering tools from Amazon is the best.
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“In other words, while it’s refreshing to hear people in higher ed finally...”
– Hacker News | An open letter to Peter Thiel
As much as I think Thiel is a bit of a libertarian lunatic, I love the dialogue he’s inspiring around higher education.
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bijan sabet: Finding new music →
Yeah I hear there are all kinds of sites that don’t use algorithms and your browsing history to tell you about what music you might like, but actually use this new thing called a ‘social network’ to show what people are writing about and even let them put music into their own ‘digital mixtapes’ – and you don’t even have to install a browser extension!
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“2. Pay for your own bailouts. A tax of 0.1 percent on all trades of stocks and...”
– My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Matt Taibbi’s list of priorities for OWS is, of course, practical and on point. I’d love to see him and Grayson take some action with this.
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Jaded Future - Birdy Nam Nam
These guys never...
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Late night thoughts
Sometimes when I find myself compiling a build of a previous torrent client release through screen sharing to get back on my private tracker whitelist so I can download some obscure french electronic album on a Sunday morning at 2:23 AM I ask myself: what the hell am I doing?
IAMA Sociopath, AMA. Especially for advice! : IAmA →
Fascinating how fascinated Reddit is by this. Reading through it, one feels as though empathy is a vestigial trait in our society these days. I imagine the system will correct itself, though, much like an organism coming up with a new defense for a virus.
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“In order to create the next revolution in digital music I believe that you must...”
– Sean Parker ‘s Email to Spotify’s Daniel Ek
Sorry Sean, but you’re high on your own stash. Bittorrent is eons beyond Napster’s conceptual model if equally problematic in licensing. Spotify, while a fairly nice experience, fails to address a number of important issues for...
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“We haven’t just lost a great innovator, leader, and businessman,...”
– Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Yeah pretty much my feelings.
“We live in a strange age of intellectual political correctness, where everything...”
– Bike Snob NYC: Wednesday’s Child: Full of Whoah
BSNYC taking it to Sasha Frere Jones again.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Wikipedia,... →
Been watching the Yakuza Papers, which is kindof difficult for background purposes while designing things, but it’s pretty goddamn awesome so far.
“Spotify does not sell streams, but access to music.” Personally, I like...”
– Projekt Keeps Fighting; Calls Spotify an “Unprincipled Concept…” - Digital Music News
I love Elon Musk
Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?
Musk: Do I sound optimistic?
Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.
Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
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