February 2012
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November 2011
2 posts
“In any case, within 15 minutes I get to see Rap Camp in action. Kanye throws on...”
– Kanye West Cover Story For Complex (Dec/Jan 2010) - NCB 1979
October 2010
7 posts
August 2010
1 post
Telephone without a cause →
bobulate:
Clive Thompson on reasons the telephone call deserves to die:
If I suddenly decide I want to dial you up, I have no way of knowing whether you’re busy, and you have no idea why I’m calling. We have to open Schrödinger’s box every time, having a conversation to figure out whether it’s OK to have a conversation.
As a non-phone person, I message, text, or email before making most...
July 2010
7 posts
“ONLINE archaeology can yield surprising results. When John Kelly of Morningside...”
– The Economist: The evolving blogosphere. An empire gives way. Blogs are growing a lot more slowly. But specialists still thrive.
The willpower paradox →
bobulate:
“To be willing is to be able.” Or so we have heard. But recent research shows that setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive:
[The researcher] identified some key traits needed not only for long-term abstinence but for any personal objective, from losing weight to learning to play guitar.
And:
[One group] was basically putting their minds into wondering mode, while the...
City by wheels →
bobulate:
David Beillo asks, are modern cities for people or for cars?
As more people move to cities and gain the economic wherewithal to purchase an automobile, will we be increasingly dependent on cars for our transportation and status symbols?
Robert Reich: Slouching Toward a Double Dip or a... →
The irony is that had there been no bank bailout in 2008 and 2009, no large stimulus, and no extraordinary efforts by the Fed to pump trillions of dollars into the economy, we’d have had another Great Depression. And because it would have sucked almost everyone down with it, the nation would have demanded from politicians larger and more fundamental reforms that might well have lifted...
June 2010
7 posts
Our outboard brains →
Scott Adams:
A business is also a way to store data. As a restaurant owner, I was fascinated at how employees came and went, but their best ideas often stayed with the business, especially in the kitchen. The restaurant was like a giant data filter. The bad ideas were tested and deleted while the good ideas stayed, most often without being written down.
(Via Kottke)
Prevention of Attainment Increases Desire,... →
Being prevented from obtaining something we desire simultaneously increases our desire for the item and decreases its eventual attractiveness. That’s the counterintuitive result from a study that shows the various surprising effects of “being jilted”.
Play Me, I’m Yours: New York City 2010 →
sarahspy:
From 9am on Monday 21st June, 60 pianos will be available to play across New York City, as part of “Play Me, I’m Yours” — an installation by British artist Luke Jerram who has been touring the project globally since 2008.
Cool!
“The intellectual tools for assessing the media, once the province of academics...”
– Unboxed - Yes, People Still Read, but Now It’s Social - NYTimes.com (via fred-wilson)
Watch“It’s Working” / MGMT (by SO-ME)
“John C. Welch: If you download Flash, you get the ‘normal’ installer, which has...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: John C. Welch on the Actual Installer Inside Adobe’s Flash Player 10.1 ‘Installer’
January 2010
1 post
“Anything that is useful to both dissidents in Iran and Martha Stewart has a lot...”
– Clay Shirky
Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)