August 2009
43 posts
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All Tomorrow’s Parties by Iron &...
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Wonderwall by Cat Power originally by...
“More often there should be a design dictator that enters into a situation, takes...”
– Losing my religion | FactoryCity
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For You by The Format originally by...
“Technology and business are relentless in the pursuit of tighter cycles, and the...”
– Empty Spaces - Corvus Consulting
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Yer Blues - Elliott Smith originally by...
“The fact is this: Apple does not have the means to perform thorough quality...”
– Joe Hewitt
“Why isn’t it grand? Why isn’t it as fantastically grand as the spectrum of all...”
– Words for Webstock - Bruce Sterling
“No, let’s not have rules. I don’t feel comfortable with having...”
– Rack, Camping 2.0++
“The biggest problem in predicting the future isn’t envisaging what...”
– Why the Internet Will Shape Social Values (and not the other way around) | eaves.ca
I bought my tickets to see Pearl Jam in Perth...
Watchtlvx:
I Am Not A Robot, Marina & the Diamonds. 2009.
A cross between Avril Lavigne, Bat for Lashes, + Gang Gang Dance?
I like.
“More than anything, I want a world with ubiquitous high bandwidth wifi. I hate...”
– Danah Boyd on The Setup
“Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of...”
– Thomas Jefferson, around the time when copyright was being conceived (via Dave Gray) (via factoryjoe)
Watchbillie jean on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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That’s Not My Name by Dizzee Rascal...
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Seven Nation Army - The Oak Ridge Boys...
“Twitter has stacked the URL shortening business opportunity overwhelmingly in...”
– tr.im URLs | tr.im Resurrected
“Is it not entirely possible that a full thought or sentence requires more than...”
– Twits vs. liveblogs ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
“If you’re renting desks via leases instead of cultivating community via...”
– It’s not Coworking if: you’re renting desks : alex hillman writes here
“If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into...”
– Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners | Design Glut
“The image of leather no longer defines outcasts, rebels, and counter-culture;...”
– Leather Jacket: The Rebel Icon That Lost Its Gall « The Discerning Brute
“There’s also no way to enter more text than fits on a single screen. This...”
– plans within plans within plans
“Steve Jobs is the anti-Internet. The Internet is utilitarian, it works, but...”
– Hey Mike, I told you so (Scripting News)
“[It] deeply disturbs me that, as a society, we seem to consider any rape bar the...”
– Rachel Hills - It’s interesting to observe the difference in the public reaction to the Kyle and Jackie O case vs Matthew Johns…
Meg White, Ray LaMontagne’s Gossip in the...
“Every little feature will be a delight for somebody, especially that person who...”
– BRING IT ON! Extract from Joel’s nice FogBugz 7 vision statement (via toolmantim)
Mr Spolsky’s customer is, of course, referring to my employer.
Mermaids & Fishermen
dmitry-baranovskiy:
Imagine the ocean. The ocean where live mermaids and lots of fisherman are chasing their luck. If you ask mermaids and fisherman about ocean they will tell you the same story: “I love ocean. Ocean is my home. I live in breath of the ocean only…” etc. But in fact their approach to ocean is very different. Fisherman care only about money they will get for fish. Ocean is just a...
“Starting new projects always sucks me into making tech decisions. I recently got...”
– The Lincolnshire Poacher — Databases Are for Pussies by Chris Lloyd 