September 2011
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August 2011
3 posts
"Consuming Content" →
Shawn Blanc, succinctly saying what I said in “Cold Content Farm,” but for the more technically-minded:
We say “consuming content” as a way to sum up the act of reading, listening, viewing, and other ways of taking in various forms of media and entertainment.We keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what we think it means.
Safari Omnibar →
It’s Chrome’s Combination Address Hut and Google Bell, but for Safari. Makes Apple’s browser usable again.
Steve Jobs should write Olivier Poitrey a big ol’ check for developing this.
“This shit is like Shia LeBeouf in song form yo. Lissenin to this shit is like...”
– P-Tone reviews Kanye and Jay-Z’s “Lift Off.”
December 2009
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“A quicker way to originality, though, is to copy, but do it badly. And cherish...”
– Momus, in a comment on my blog
November 2009
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“Why “tweetup”? Why can’t we just say “meetup”?...”
– twitter/kidonthesquare
October 2009
6 posts
“Sometimes you gotta dive into the pool to keep your head right. And sometimes...”
– Brendan McGinley
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Dr. Dre in Plato's Republic (from the Stanford...
Thrasymachus: Some citizens in the city have been talking about weapons as if you had no weapons, Dr. Dre.
Dr. Dre: I see. Well, did you think that I had sold all of my weapons?
Thrasymachus: I say, Dr. Dre, that I do not see any weapons on your person at the moment.
Dr. Dre: If I had such weapons, do you, dear Thrasymachus, think that I would have such weapons on my person all of the time?
Thrasymachus: No, I suppose not.
Dr. Dre: When, citizen Thrasymachus, do you think I would have such weapons on my person?
Thrasymachus: When you were readying for battle, Dr. Dre.
Dr. Dre: Yes, when readying for battle. Am I currently readying for battle?
Thrasymachus: No, it appears that you are not readying for battle right now.
Dr. Dre: So, Thrasymachus, do you believe that I shall never again engage in any battles?
Thrasymachus: I would presume that you will most likely battle again, Dr. Dre.
Dr. Dre: If you know that I do not currently ready for battle, and if you grant that I would only have weapons on my person if I were readying for battle, and if you grant that I will once again battle in the future, then how can you and other citizens claim that I have no more weapons? Again, I ask: what you think I sold all of my weapons?
Thrasymachus: No, Dr. Dre, it seems that you have not, in fact, sold all of your weapons.
September 2009
8 posts
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“Dissatisfaction is a significant key to quality. “Art,” said the...”
– Dissatisfaction (Robert Genn) - via Communicatrix on Twitter
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“The job of a writer is to write. Anything else a writer does is entirely on his...”
– John Scalzi
“I was struck a few years ago when a friend of ours — an actress — was having...”
– Joan Didion on make-believe | Tomorrow Museum
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“Student Project” is a legitimate aesthetic.
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August 2009
13 posts
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“I’ve learned that my job is to just sit down and start making the clackity...”
– Merlin
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“I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies.”
– Steve McQueen (via theimpossiblecool)
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In which, holy shit, I talked to Kim Deal.
Jay: Ok, this is kind of a weird question, but did you really do your hair with mayo before a Breeders show?
Kim Deal: Oh, mayo, let me see ... Butter, a piece of ham, anything that was greasy. Yeah. I used beer. Beer's not the best, though, 'cause it doesn't have a lot of grease in it. I don't do it all the time. It was when my hair was a certain length, and I'd just washed it. It would just be all over the place, so I'd grease it down so it would stay in place.
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“Writer’s block is a bourgeois conceit. Just get to work.”
– John Darnielle (via cleversimon)
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“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
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July 2009
4 posts
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UNKLE - Restless
From the soundtrack to...
June 2009
4 posts
“SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN THE ARTS: They were rejected and ignored for years. And...”
– Earl Newton.com » Dealing with Silence and Rejection
“So long as you’re asleep before the sun’s up, you can claim you went...”
– Twitter / pulp hope
“There’s only so many movies you can watch, and there’s only so many...”
– Brian Molko
(I figured since Placebo’s got a new album out now, I might as well link back — aaaaaall the way back! — to my 2007 interview with Mr. Molko.)
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“Everything you ever create appears to you as an accumulation of defeats....”
– Hypercritical - Ars Technica
May 2009
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April 2009
4 posts
“Because reporting and editing are honest-to-God actual fucking jobs that don’t...”
– Wired UK Columnist Warren Ellis: ‘We’re living in the last days of the Roman empire’
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March 2009
6 posts
“I didn’t yet understand that women have five hearts, like worms, and it only...”
– Between Love and Employment: Facebook, Women, and Worms
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