December 2011
1 post
November 2011
2 posts
“He’s telling you the story of, “If you bust your ass and don’t...”
– Jamie Zawinski
October 2011
2 posts
“China and India are likely to produce many rigorous analytical thinkers and...”
– Walter Isaacson
September 2011
3 posts
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“Refashioning oneself, and embarking on changes that sometimes require you to cut...”
– Maura Johnston
July 2011
2 posts
WatchMorley Safer of 60 Minutes reports on a film of San Francisco’s Market St., shot in April 1906, days before the infamous earthquake and subsequent fire that destroyed a large portion of what was then San Francisco. The film, shipped by train to New York the night before the earthquake, offers one of the few glimpses on celluloid of the city at that time.
You can download the full, original...
“… maybe that sense of loneliness, confusion, abandonment, and shame is the true...”
– Walter Chaw, on Malick’s The Tree of Life.
June 2011
4 posts
WatchPretty wonderful video from Paul Octavious of this year’s Phoot Camp in Marfa.
AirDrop
If you’ve cornered me in a bar before, I’ve likely explained my desire for a system to share content among devices on a local network. This has long been a frustration of mine, largely because I keep having conversations with people while out and about where I want to reference various media and content I see online or have isolated on some device that isn’t with me.
Imagine...
May 2011
5 posts
“Technologies have a way of growing faster than the ecosystem of tools needed to...”
– Joe Hewitt, in his post about leaving Facebook and pursuing personal projects to help the development and design communities.
April 2011
8 posts
Virgin Galactic is looking for full-time... →
Virgin Galactic has launched its search for Pilot-Astronauts. This unique opportunity initially involves working as part of the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo spaceflight system test and development team in Mojave, CA, then taking the experience gained from that program to the spaceline’s commercial operations at its operating base, Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Their mission:
Virgin...
Gannett Blog: USAT | Lead apps developer jumps to... →
Unless you work for Gannett, this site probably won’t make much sense, but it is basically the unofficial rumor mill for Gannett, USA TODAY’s parent company, where anonymous tips are given about layoffs, staffing changes, and other company business dealings from internal staffers. The commenters are almost always anonymous as well, and this particular comment amuses me greatly:
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Hatching
In the next few weeks, I’m selling my car, moving to San Francisco, and joining Twitter as a Software Engineer on their Internal Tools team.
Twitter has witnessed phenomenal growth both in its offices and on its servers. To cope with this, they’ve built a small, efficient, and skilled team to build beautiful, functional web applications that give tremendous power to the staff to...
March 2011
14 posts
WatchtUnE-yArDs — Bizness, on pitchfork.tv
See the entire performance of Merrill Garbus, also of Sister Suvi, from this year’s SXSW over at NPR Music →
The Awl interprets Rebecca Black's "Friday" as a... →
She moves from a home made vexing by obligations to the bus stop and there, in the public sphere, appears to find freedom from authoritarian programming in the form of a Mercedes convertible filled with high-status peers. They stop and invite her to join them, a moment evoking Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night but with a postmodern twist suggestive of a post-historical amnesia: On this...
“My hands were shaking but the ground wasn’t. It was a reversal I could live...”
– Craig Mod, on The nourishing wake
“What makes the world work, what makes things better, is passionate virtuosity.”
– Bruce Sterling, at SXSWi 2011, via Wilson Miner.
Caterina Fake on the fear of missing out →
FOMO —Fear of Missing Out— is a great motivator of human behavior, and I think a crucial key to understanding social software, and why it works the way it does.
On the heels of SXSWi:
You’re home alone, but watching your friends status updates tell of a great party happening somewhere. You are aware of more parties than ever before. And, like gym memberships, adding Bergman movies to...
“Aggregation” can mean smart people sharing their reading lists, plugging one...”
– Bill Keller
Nick Nunns on mobile devices at bars, beer... →
I think one of the reasons Untappd is so unappealing to me is that it doesn’t open up any conversation. People are so used to their drinking buddies using their phones at the dinner table or bar that they just assume those people are checking twitter or email or whatever else we do when there’s a lull in the conversation. Were you to whip out a small notebook (or if you’re really fancy, a...
February 2011
13 posts
“If businesses had as many gripes with an external vendor, that vendor would’ve...”
– David Hansson
Seven Ways to Listen to the New Radiohead Album →
6: Combing the hair of a child that isn’t yours
“Every new day we have to live with yesterday. That doesn’t mean we can’t change....”
– Frank Chimero
“I’m a firm believer that glowing screens are a transitional technology....”
– Jack Cheng, on Tom Armitage’s fantastic musing about the seduction and calm of portable technology.
“It’s dangerous to use any single person as an indicator of a trend or...”
– Matt Waite
