September 2010
“The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open...”
– An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Take time to tell your senator: No Website Blacklists, No Internet Censorship!
“It’s not about the parts that I play, but it’s the way that you’re treated as a...”
– Gemma Arterton | Vanity Fair
Love her. Since St. Trinian’s & Rocknrolla.
“I mean, be a freak, be weird, do things that you find interesting and find fun....”
– Johnny Weir - 2010 Seattle HRC Seattle Gala Dinner, September 25, 2010
via http://quotablejohnnyweir.blogspot.com
(via morethansound)
Sometimes we need the reminder. And sometimes we need the validation.
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20 Social Media Awards That I Just Made Up
bajillionhits:
Today, the almighty social media blog/Internet event coordinators Mashable opened up nominations for its 4th Annual Mashable Awards (you should obviously take a break from reading this and go nominate me for everything), which honors killer achievements in superior strat.
The award categories include everything from “Best Use of an API” to “Must-Follow Brand”, but I really feel...
“I wanted out. That was partly why I’d chosen Columbia. I liked how the city...”
– From Tobias Wolff’s Old School, my current re-read and one of my favorite books of all time. (via balltillifall)
As hipster-precious-suburban-fairy-tale as this is? Vaguely why I went to Barnard.
(via turnabout)
I wanted to move to New York City more than i wanted to go to any particular...
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Save the date: Bubbapalooza 2011!
bubbapalooza:
The Platt family announces the first annual Bubbapalooza, celebrating the life and times of Charles DeForest Platt. Bubbapalooza 2011 will be held at the Platt Family Cabin in Grand Lake, Colorado from July 29th-31st. The opening ceremony will be Friday evening and might involve Scotch. The closing ceremony will be Sunday morning and will definitely involve blueberry pancakes.
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Bookavore: Have been wondering why I don’t give a... →
sourdoughislife:
bookavore:
Have been wondering why I don’t give a shit about “interactive storytelling” or “enhanced books” or “transmedia.” No matter how many times they pop up in my Twitter feed. You’d think, as a dealer of traditionally-printed books, fear would be creeping into my heart as I confronted inevitable proof that the world continues to pass my profession by, or maybe on my...
Happy story of the day:
pensandfeathers:
“The other night, however, a very amazing thing happened. I downloaded an app called Color Identifier. It uses the iPhone’s camera, and speaks names of colors. It must use a table, because each color has an identifier made up of 6 hexadecimal digits. This puts the total at 16777216 colors, and I believe it. Some of them have very surreal names, such as Atomic Orange, Cosmic,...
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Clean, full-length, glorious: My Chemical Romance,...
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joyengel:
Rachel Maddow, “Women voters, women’s rights.”
There is no place in the world, and no time in history, where restricting women’s reproductive rights makes a people, or a nation, more free or more equal. These extreme positions are without any question a war on America’s girls and women.
You need to watch this immediately.
“What I...
How Your Nielsen Ratings Sausage Is Made →
kateoplis:
sectionfive:
According to this article, 25,000 people are being polled for the ratings. That’s 1/4 of 1% of the 100,000,000 TV Households.
That’s not an accurate sampling. It sounds like a joke. (via NewTeeVee)
So is the MPAA rating system. How many board members does it have now? 10? 12?
Listen, TV/Movie market research has always been smoke and mirrors; there’s really no such...
WatchMassive love for Gabourey Sidibe. Oh, and for Gerard Butler.
Might need to watch Rocknrolla tonight.
“Wow, tonight is definitely one of those nights where I have an offswit—”
– zzzzzzzz
“We do have two Americas. We have the America that’s living in reality. The...”
– Bill Maher (via azspot)
“When a kid builds a model rocket, or a kite, or a birdhouse, she not only picks...”
– School for Hackers - Magazine - The Atlantic
This is why I like being a generalist. Do stuff. Just do stuff. Try stuff, fail, learn, grow, do more, learn to follow through.
“After a while, the unanswered messages start to bleed together—but while the...”
– So Sorry To Do This! Flakiness Epidemic Sweeps Digital New York | The New York Observer
Almost every line of this article hits home in one way or another! interweber highlighted the best bits but this struck home in particular since it helped me clarify a personal preference: in the culture of...
“This is the first time Goode has ever run for office. She’s using her life...”
– WNYC Voter Guide: Democratic U.S. Senate Primary
In all of my research for local races (and getting Charlie Rangel the hell out), I completely missed the fact that Kirsten Gillebrand faced a challenge. This quote about challenger Gail Goode just went and broke my heart.
(via jaimealyse)
More:
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WatchGood morning.
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Dads will be dads.
Me: I dunno, I think I might be an adult. It's kinda scary.
My dad: Hmm, before 30*? Not bad.
Me: Oh, burn.
*2 months.
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How To Change Things
52weeksofux:
Let’s face it, change is difficult. For most human beings, change evokes fear and stress. Familiarity, on the other hand, is comforting. It allows us to live and operate with a certain level of ease which doesn’t require active thought at all times. This applies to your product just as much as our daily lives.
Building successful products rarely happens by doing what everyone else...
“It’s possible to romanticize poverty. It is not possible to romanticize...”
– How Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets Have (Not Yet) Changed My Life - The Awl
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“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via starcrossed-lovers, libraryland) (via tffny) (via lyriquediscorde) (via northerndownpour)
I’ll admit I’m imagining the library in my head to be like the one in the Doctor Who episode “Silence in the Library.”
Also: amazing quote, perfectly needed right...
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Would you like a postcard?
Another holiday weekend, another chance for me to sit down and send out postcards. Reply (or Ask if I don’t have your address) if you’d like one.
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“If a status update reaches a social network but no one sees it, does it exist?...”
– MediaPost Publications Google vs. Facebook And How Marketers Win (Or Lose) In 2011 09/01/2010
I dislike generating content just for the sake of generating content. In my personal spaces I tend toward things that are interesting specifically to me and my own. Whether or not I’ve explained...
“I’m not even the mayor of my own office building.”
– Saddest little social media [insert noun here]