January 2011
42 posts
“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new...”
– Le Plaisir du Texte, Roland Barthes. 1975. (via tlvx)
“Look at this Microsoft advert: they’re making a virtue of a phone that, ideally,...”
– Asleep and Awake – Blog – BERG
“I have often thought that it would be useful to create a list of names, chosen...”
– Project Names and Borges Numbers
“If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent...”
– Claude Jones: quotes by brilliant people
“A high-level language like JavaScript (especially with the work that’s been done...”
– funkatron.com : Notes on “Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms”
“The bags carry laptops; the Webstock logo carries the gravitas.”
– Raising Webstock :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation
“CoffeeScript is well done and more convenient to use than JS, provided you buy...”
– Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript) on CoffeeScript (via dylanfm)
“(My job is to call people and pitch the brand of make-up my company sells. I...”
– via @kb
Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » You Couldn’t Make It Up
“I almost got all of this into 140 characters, but failed. I hate the way blog...”
– WifiMug.org data and doing the right thing - Laughing Meme
“I’ve been thinking about this phenomenon for a while in terms of the...”
– If You Didn’t Blog It, It Didn’t Happen - Anil Dash
“According to Ioannidis, the main problem is that too many researchers engage in...”
– The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method : The New Yorker
“One of the classic examples of selective reporting concerns the testing of...”
– The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method : The New Yorker
“The biggest difference between you and Picasso, or Einstein, or whoever your...”
– How can I become more creative? - Quora
“Women should be seen as more than mere baby incubators who procreate for the...”
– Kevin Rudd On Why Young Women Should Be Having Babies
“After Rudd came off stage, he spoke to me and the few other under-30s (we had...”
– Kevin Rudd On Why Young Women Should Be Having Babies
“It seems plausible that email is actually the biggest category of HTML...”
– Representativeness of implementors in HTML WG [Was: Use cases] from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis on 2011-01-03 (public-html-xml@w3.org from January 2011)