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It’s like an iPad and a printer had a baby, but in an...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:54:43 -0700

It’s like an iPad and a printer had a baby, but in an alternate dimension where printers don’t completely suck.

I see what you did there.

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:28:46 -0700

I see what you did there.

fun. - “Walking The Dog” remixed by RAC (Remix...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:08:00 -0700

fun. - “Walking The Dog” remixed by RAC (Remix Artist Collective.)

fun. doesn’t seem like the kind of band that would benefit from a remix, but this one just fits.

"Consuming Content"

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:01:00 -0700

"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

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:15:21 -0700

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 havin ya ears..."

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:22:59 -0700

“This shit is like Shia LeBeouf in song form yo. Lissenin to this shit is like havin ya ears penetrated by a million microscopic dicks namsayin. Shit sounds like niggas doin aerobics on a magical cloud of daisies.”

- P-Tone reviews Kanye and Jay-Z’s “Lift Off.”

"A quicker way to originality, though, is to copy, but do it badly. And cherish the mistakes, because..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:29:37 -0800

“A quicker way to originality, though, is to copy, but do it badly. And cherish the mistakes, because that’s where you’re at your most “you”! (The real trick, of course, is to make your audience cherish those mistakes too!)”

- Momus, in a comment on my blog

"Why “tweetup”? Why can’t we just say “meetup”? Geeks don’t..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:29:20 -0800

“Why “tweetup”? Why can’t we just say “meetup”? Geeks don’t leetup. Klan meetings aren’t sheetups. We don’t call family court a deadbeatup.”

- twitter/kidonthesquare

FFFFOUND!

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:24:02 -0700

FFFFOUND!

A Simple Pledge Poster from Lure Design I feel I should put this...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:03:07 -0700

A Simple Pledge Poster from Lure Design

I feel I should put this up in my office, as soon as I have an office. Think of it as fair warning.

"Sometimes you gotta dive into the pool to keep your head right. And sometimes you gotta climb out."

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:47:30 -0700

“Sometimes you gotta dive into the pool to keep your head right. And sometimes you gotta climb out.”

- Brendan McGinley

keep true to the dreams of thy youth. (via iamlowercasepeople)

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:27:48 -0700

keep true to the dreams of thy youth. (via iamlowercasepeople)

via Pretty Bitter For the record, it’s “adore...

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:46:00 -0700

via Pretty Bitter

For the record, it’s “adore you.” But I manage to sneak some other things in there, too.

Dr. Dre in Plato's Republic (from the Stanford Chaparral)

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:00:00 -0700

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.

On a temporary Tumblr hiatus to try this competing service I...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:08:00 -0700

On a temporary Tumblr hiatus to try this competing service I found.

You can find me on the Twitter or on my main blog.

"Dissatisfaction is a significant key to quality. “Art,” said the American sculptor John..."

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:21:00 -0700

“Dissatisfaction is a significant key to quality. “Art,” said the American sculptor John Chamberlain, “is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.” In the midst of dissatisfaction ways are found. Without dissatisfaction it is swiftly possible to fall in love with your own mediocrity. Utter dissatisfaction can be liberating. “If the wine is not good,” said Michelangelo, “then throw it out.””

- Dissatisfaction (Robert Genn) - via Communicatrix on Twitter

I know there has to be something with more gravity that I can...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:04:00 -0700

I know there has to be something with more gravity that I can do, here, but I just want all hundred-someodd of you to know that this Spock was the best cat he could be for all his years.

"The job of a writer is to write. Anything else a writer does is entirely on his or her free time and..."

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:17:00 -0700

“The job of a writer is to write. Anything else a writer does is entirely on his or her free time and subject to his or her own whim.”

- John Scalzi

"I was struck a few years ago when a friend of ours — an actress — was having dinner here with us and..."

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:44:24 -0700

“I was struck a few years ago when a friend of ours — an actress — was having dinner here with us and a couple of other writers. It suddenly occurred to me that she was the only person in the room who couldn’t plan what she was going to do. She had to wait for someone to ask her, which is a strange way to live”

- Joan Didion on make-believe | Tomorrow Museum

“Student Project” is a legitimate aesthetic.

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:12:00 -0700

“Student Project” is a legitimate aesthetic.