October 2010
Burnout and How to Deal With It →
Well huh.
EVERY TIME I'M IN A MUSEUM I WANT TO WRITE MY...
yourlatestonlyone:
So the Doctor shows up =D
It’s how he keeps score!
On eyes, jumps, and split decisions.
maura:
This week made me have lots of Feelings about the way that my different selves — my professional self, my corporeal self, my emotional self, etc etc — rub up against one another. A few were not so bad! But a lot of them made me want to jump out a window, although I live on the second floor so if I’d acted on that particular impulse when I felt it most strongly I probably would have just...
Josh Ritter LIVE in Studio Q →
itsalloverbabyblue:
A really lovely, mellow version of “Monster Ballads” that made me inexplicably weepy.
Highly recommended. If only their player allowed embedding.
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maura:
The new Ida Maria song is like “The...
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Are you ready to be dead?
thetalkingdead:
The Talking Dead is a collaborative storytelling event taking place over the Halloween weekend of 2010. Ghosts and spirits of the dead will haunt Twitter, Foursquare and other social networks of their ghastly choosing. If you want to play, here’s what to do:
* Pick a character you would like to play. They can be anyone, as long as they’re dead. We expect most players to choose...
“If you could live in any fictional world,” I asked my audience, “What world...”
– The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett’s Journal - Designing For Jedi (via chialynn)
The long narrative stories we tell each other, books and plays then movies, have traditionally been about the privileged: pharaohs, kings, queens, knights, princes, princesses, troubadours; members of the court...
“You don’t really need a guy with a PhD to explain to you that bacon...”
– We Showed ‘Troll Physics’ Comics to a Physics Professor. Here’s His Reaction. - Urlesque
LOVE THIS!
“The networks aren’t blocking Google TV because it’s Google. They are blocking...”
– Michael Learnmonth - AdAge (via rafimama)
Simple, but true. Broadcasters are the gatekeepers to the living room. Their entire business model depends on no one else having access on a large scale. Of course they’re going to fight this. First the hardware, then the software, then they’ll publicly...
Thoughts raised by LCD Soundsystem's "All My...
jonathanbogart:
Shy people know: you stay away not because you don’t want to interact, but because interaction matters so much that when it goes wrong (as it inevitably will), when attention falls flat, when misunderstandings crop up, it becomes the worst thing in the world, and you can’t bear having to explain yourself or reassert your interestingness. Read More
Great piece of...
Life is hard. Here is someone.: 54 job titles... →
meaghano:
account manager
director of account services
editor in chief
creative director
marketing and promotions manager
assistant brand manager
co-founder & ceo
vice president of sales
vice president, digital marketing
news director
producer
external relations officer
chief executive officer
14 and 23 look familiar.
Love.Her.
At the moment, arguably the most celebrated and talented sci-fi standard bearer is soul/pop sensation Janelle Monáe. Inspired by Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis, Monáe borrowed the name for her first EP, which is set in the year 2719 (numerical dyslexia, anyone?) and introduces characters and themes that are continued on her latest album, The ArchAndroid.
“There was just something...
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I know 8 hours on the Internet guarantees a...
Yes, we need bigger solutions. Yes, I poked at the bra color / where you put your purse memes as being ineffectual. Yes, we need bigger ideas and societal change and whether or not you wear purple today matters less than whether or not you’re committed to tolerance and love and respect on an everyday basis.
But I don’t think this many people would have been talking about LGBTQA issues...
“We talked a lot about how perception leads reality and how if you are going to...”
– John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac
I am still fascinated by every part of this interview.
omg purple tumblr
blurintofocus:
Took me a second, but awesome.
(via yayponies)
Yup. ♥
“Dan Choi is a 29-year-old West Point graduate who was discharged from the...”
– Gay combat vet discharged in NY signs up for Army (via apsies)
<3 Dan Choi. Went to elementary, middle and high school with Dan. We played in band together (me flute, him trumpet), starting in elementary school. He lived one block from me, and was our HS Class President.
It’s cliche but we...
Onward!
langer:
Biz Stone and Chris Hughes recently took different and equally valid routes towards the very reasonable conclusion that Malcolm Gladwell is a stooge, but I think one important point went unsaid: social media emerged as a powerful tool in the activist’s toolbox at the same time that it highlighted certain infuriating shortcomings, since while on the one hand it empowers activists and...
“Yale women are not new to fraternity misogyny, nor are we a stranger to our...”
– Disgusting: Yale Frat Caught on Tape Chanting About Rape “No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal” and “F**cking Sluts”
“Boys will be boys,” right? And those angry and upset women should stop getting their panties in a twist about that harmless joke those guys were making....
[The cease and desist order] may have been written in good faith, but it is wrong. Howard Zinn authorized the publication and display of the work on our website.
However, we realize we are making our case to both the general public as well as to a legal department at Harper Collins who may decide to take us to court and bully us into submission, so we are willing to make two offers.
The...
For a foggy Los Angeles.
Well Water
theanatomyofmelancholy:
Randall Jarrell What a girl called "the dailiness of life"
(Adding an errand to your errand. Saying,
"Since you're up . . ." Making you a means to
A means to a means to) is well water
Pumped from an old well at the bottom of the world.
The pump you pump the water from is rusty
And hard to move and absurd, a squirrel-wheel
A sick squirrel turns slowly, through...
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It's All Over Baby Blue: This? This is the thing... →
itsalloverbabyblue:
I’ve been incredibly lucky in the past few years to see the bulk of bands who obsessed my musical sensibilities during my high school years through my mid-20s. These are the bands that shaped my ability to make my own musical calls. Sure, the music I loved and listened to as a child and an early…
music is at the heart of all of us.
“I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change...”
– Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism’s future : The New Yorker
You don’t have to like people to agree with them.
“The internet is a communication tool. There are still real people on the other...”
– the-madame-hatter is a BAMF. (via pasithee)
Watchinterweber:
Bob Saget: Father to the World (PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIP) (by Gabriel Sunday)
“I’ll change the staging of life, so that it doesn’t look like I’m on Full House.” GENIUS.
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“Happiness is harder to get. It’s enjoyed after you’ve worked for something, or...”
– The Spoils of Happiness - NYTimes.com
Courage comrades.
“Worse case scenario: I wake up the next day (month)(year) being awesome.”
– my life/work philosophy in a pull quote.
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