May 2012
2 posts
Seattle super moon →
1 tag
posset →
(n) A spiced drink of hot sweetened milk curdled with wine or ale
March 2012
2 posts
1 tag
salvo - n. An exception; a reservation; an excuse; a saving fact or clause.
February 2012
1 post
“engineers generally want to work on infrastructure, scalability and “hard...”
– How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink
January 2012
2 posts
“There is no universal context, no matter how many times geeks want to tell you...”
– danah boyd | apophenia » “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
“There are countless examples of how circumstance influences the way we perceive...”
– A whiff of history - The Boston Globe
November 2011
3 posts
“If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without...”
– Conan writer Todd Levin on how jokes die, for GOOD Magazine “Just Like That but Funny” (via lonelysandwich)
(via atencio)
This quote rings so incredibly true to me. Whenever I’m writing, my mind immediately goes to the darkest move possible. I’ve learned to push past this initial instinct to see...
“In the old country, for example, we have two kinds of ‘friendship’...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
3 posts
“it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously...”
– Bill Gates
You are not running out of time - Rahul Bijlani | Rahul Bijlani
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WatchNew Ho-Ag
“Don’t act like a serious professional. We all know you’re just a dude sitting...”
– AFP
August 2011
2 posts
1 tag
crenellations - the battlements of a castle or other building
July 2011
2 posts
1 tag
sinecure (n.) - a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.
May 2011
2 posts
Gaslamp Killer & Jon Hopkins mix
Low End...
“I learned a long time ago to only work for or with people with whom you have...”
– Do you charge money to do things? - Merlin Mann
April 2011
15 posts
“‘We don’t seek out the forbidden,’ Kunstmann murmurs over...”
– Unlocking the Mystery of Paris’ Most Secret Underground Society
JFK - We choose to go to the moon.
“‘The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,’ he says. ‘That sucks.’” from This Tech Bubble Is Different @ businessweek.com
Let’s go people. Think big.
Watchfloatingparticles:
mnwka:
ATTENTION INTERNET: THIS IS A PENGUIN BEING TICKLED.
GODDAMMIT FUCK THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I’VE EVER HEARD.
INTERNET GOLD.
“But most people, especially highly gifted people, do not really know where they...”
– Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself (via jacecooke)
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“When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the...”
– Austin Kleon (via 43folders)
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“First of all, being a vegetarian should never be associated with being a...”
– Immortal Technique - Beef & Broccoli
“Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that...”
– Jean Rasczak, Starship Troopers
The life of a working musician on the social web →
AFP talk at Webstock 2011
March 2011
6 posts
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly...”
– Edwin Land (via @jamesfranco)
“Saying traditional publishing is dead right now is like declaring yourself the...”
– Amanda Hocking’s Blog: Some Things That Need to Be Said
Info/edutainment
“…both theoretically and practically the notion of public understanding of science is too anemic to capture any serious engagement with science that wants to go beyond a passive downstream reception of predigested knowledge. For example, subscribing to Scientific American or watching Nova on TV.”
Sophia Roosth “Crafting the Biological: Open-Sourcing Life Science, from Synthetic...
February 2011
5 posts
Charles Bronson - Individualized Floor Puncher
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IREPRESS - Fiddler, Yee Ryding
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December 2010
5 posts
“But I’m not a guy who has to destroy you at Ping-Pong or I can’t eat.”
– Robert Downey Jr. on being competitive from the 2010 Playboy interview
Tara Craig - Hiding [Demos]
