November 2011
30 posts
“Thanks to the work of Sudhir Venkatesh on the underground markets of the...”
– How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
Watchelliottsmithappreciation:
“Heaven Adores You” is an intimate and meditative look at the influence that Elliott Smith has had since his tragic passing in 2003.
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“There’s a space within a song. That Big Star song has a lot of absence of things...”
– Elliott Smith (via elliottsmithappreciation)
“Have you ever written an amazing library or tool at one job and then left to...”
– Open Source (Almost) Everything
“Last season on Mad Men, in the episode in which Don Draper writes his journal,...”
– Matthew Weiner (via thebronzemedal)
Weiner shouldn’t have to even say it but glad he does. Get your own show! (via mandamonium)
“This is like being a Rock and roll musician in the late sixties. This is like...”
– Cycle Gap: John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers (via kouky)
Gimme Bar: 5 Days of Gimme Bar: Day One →
gimmebar:
Howdy folks,
We here in Gimme Bar land have been working like gangbusters (whom we have been told are incredibly efficient workers) over the last month and a half and we have all kinds of new stuff to show you.
Instead of releasing it all in one massive glut, we’ve decided to spread the…
“When we were working on his record cover, I
pointed out that there was no...”
– Neil Gust (via elliottsmithappreciation)
“In my own naive way, I would never build a company anywhere but Iowa so maybe I...”
– Dwolla
“If a post happens to say the right thing at the right time, it will go viral. If...”
– The Calculus of Grit
At The Falconer at 6pm in the evening.
Bartender: "Five Old Fashioneds?"
Lincoln: "We're serious business."
Bartender: "Serious?"
Me: "Have you seen his beard? It's serious."
Bartender: "We should kiss."
“We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
“Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
“There’s no way to take a time-out from our social life and describe it to...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
“if you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a poor family, you’re...”
– The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
“In a study published by the journal Psychology, Crime and Law, Belinda Board and...”
– The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
“The findings of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, winner of a Nobel economics...”
– The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
“The next time you make breakfast, pay attention to the exquisitely intricate...”
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
“To maintain any resemblance of happiness, the skill most of us will require in...”
– Heart of Darkness: A Mild Polemic, by Jon Kolko - Core77
“It’s a system, and so our critique of it should be systemic, and so too...”
– Heart of Darkness: A Mild Polemic, by Jon Kolko - Core77
“At least until the next suicide, the next foretold and desperate death, some...”
– Sri Lankan Asylum Seeker Commits Suicide in Villawood
No Name #5 // Elliott Smith
October 2011
26 posts
“There’s no easy solution. Should a company be expected to maintain features...”
– Waxy.org: Andy Baio lives here (via brianoberkirch)
“Replacing your own ideology is a lot like do-it-yourself brain surgery. It...”
– Unqualified Reservations: A formalist manifesto 