April 2011
March 2011
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As my pal, Jan Wildeboer, Red Hat’s EMEA Open Source Evangelist put it, “I...
– No Privacy on Amazon’s Cloud Drive | ZDNet
listening to "The Mountain Goats - No Children" →
Hand in unlovable hand.
We’re afraid of commitment because commitment is authentic, and we’re...
– Why We Fear Commitment « Thought Catalog
All of these fantasy sequences, by the way, are introduced by Scott Glenn, who...
– Liz Tells Frank What Happened In Sucker Punch « Liz Tells Frank What Happened In…
I highly recommend you read this.
Given the amusing irreverence that has long marked the voice of Marc Jacobs’s...
– Marc Jacobs Intern Calls CEO a “Tyrant” in Twitter Meltdown
People like spectacle.
My informative, consistent, occasionally witty, annotated, captioned and documented approach to social media won’t churn clicks, jack strat, #win or launch us into web 4.0 notoriety — but at...
Even if the commanding officers were not co-conspirators or accomplices in the...
– The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics
I can honestly say I value Rolling Stone’s war coverage over their music coverage.
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Community can be a very vexing show. Some weeks, it is literally the silliest...
– ‘Community’ Puts On Its Sweater Best With Some Thoughts About Isolation
Moving into a house with cable meant I didn’t have to wait to watch Community on Hulu every week — and my endless questioning as to whether or not we had recorded it or were recording it was how we all...
Announcing A New Social Media Influence... →
I like the strat on your Potemkin Score, yo.
“Downward pressure on leisure expenditure is likely to continue to...
– Did file-sharing cause recording industry collapse? Economists say no
Some will never persuaded that online distribution and filesharing had a minimal impact on the declining music sales, no matter how many reports, graphs, and numbers. That’s OK, the reports, graphs and numbers are slightly...
The father/grandfather, whom everyone (everyone) called “abba,” disliked...
– : Gin is for Sedar and sniffles.
Okay so I just did the walled-city version of Purim (one day late) and may have subscribed to this same philosophy. Please excuse any typos. This was a pretty enthusiastically gin-based festivity.
(via jakke)
Isn’t Gin a grain alcohol? And I’m now noticing we’re...
listening to "First of the Gang - Zee Avi" →
Zee’s pretty, petty thieves.
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Thanks to everyone who came to our SXSW panel this week. More to come very soon!
– Rae, Megan, Lindsey, Adam, Mike and Greta. :)
listening to "Mumford →
Where you invest your love you invest your life.
Smith was 29 when she recorded Horses. Joan Didion was 29 when she wrote her...
– In Which We Can Feel The Horses Long Before Horses Enter the Scene - Home - This Recording
I keep rereading the above, because I’ll never ascribe the word genius to myself (I have too many scrapes and bruises on a regular basis, for one thing), but this piece hits on something I’ve only barely...
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I work at Apple as a manager at one of its stores in Japan. The earthquake hit...
– XXXXX, Great Tohoku Earthquake Survivor 2011 (via ericmortensen)
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Great music wasn’t created by the first people to grab an electric guitar or a...
– Seth’s Blog: Bring me stuff that’s dead, please
We’re gonna have to agree to disagree on this one Seth. While I agree that breaking the rules of a medium (what much art is composed of) can only happen once those rules are established, I disagree with your comment of “These people rarely do anything...