October 2011
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“You are a mashup of what you let into your life.”
– Steal Like an Artist – if you watch one thing this week, make it Austin Kleon on the origin and mechanism of creativity (via curiositycounts)
This one’s for Jess.
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Timelapse of legendary designers Charles and Ray Eames’ entire living room packed up and moved to the LACMA. More on the story of their iconic furniture (via)
“Even though it is set at the tail end of the sixties, even though it ostensibly...”
– Bruce Robinson’s WITHNAIL AND I sticks it to Baby boomers
“For as much as he’s invested in sharing, though, Zuckerberg seems clueless...”
– Facebook Ticker: Mark Zuckerberg’s terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
“Facebook’s version of autobiography is very specific. It is data-driven....”
– Facebook Timeline: Putting the Auto in Autobiography - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
“It’s a complete design overhaul that makes a visual history of everything you’ve...”
– Timeline: Say Hello to the New Facebook Profiles
This is quite literally the last thing I would ever want from Facebook. So fucking creepy.
(via spytap)
DING DING DING DING DING!
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“Since a supply spat between Heinz and McDonald’s that arose during a 1973...”
– old-ketchup-packet-heads-for-trash
Tell me more.
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Let Bartlet Be Bartlet (1.19)
Chairman Fitzwallace: We’re discussing gays in the military, huh?
Major Thompson: Yes sir.
Fitzwallace: What do you think? I said, what do you think?
Thompson: Sir, we’re here to help the White House form a possible -
Fitzwallace: I know. I’m asking you what you think.
Major Tate: Sir, we’re not prejudiced toward homosexuals.
Fitzwallace: You just don’t want to see them serving in the Armed Forces?
Tate: No, sir, I don’t.
Fitzwallace: Cause they pose a threat to unit discipline and cohesion.
Tate: Yes sir.
Fitzwallace: That’s what I think too. I also think the military wasn’t designed to be an instrument of social change.
Tate: Yes sir.
Fitzwallace: The problem with that is that what they were saying to me fifty years ago. Blacks shouldn’t serve with whites, it would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit.
The unit got over it. The unit changed. I’m an admiral in the U.S. Navy and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Beat that with a stick.
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“Rock ‘n’ roll matters because it is the story of growing up. Arguably, rock ‘n’...”
– Helena Fitzgerald, in a review of the Ellen Willis anthology, Out of the Vinyl Deeps (via amyandronicus)
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USA.gov: Going Abroad? Get Your Passport on... →
tbridge:
usagov:
By Navdeep Aujla, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs
Winter travelers, spring break planners, day trippers to Toronto, and even those planning on attending the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, crack open your passport book for the third annual “Passport Day in the USA” on…
You should have one of these, Americans.
Perfect timing, my passport expires in 25...
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Watchfactsarenothing:
Vimeo - JY CINEMASHUP - All the President’s Boys
I’m in the library without headphones, so I haven’t watched this yet, but when you mash together All the President’s Men and Sabotage by Beastie Boys, you’ve got my attention. [via]
GENIUS.
Is Digital Killing the Luxury Brand? →
“It’s the rarefied world of Chanel, brought to you by the rarefied world of Chanel.”
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Dear News Media Tumblrs
I love you. Well, some of you. Some of you reblog each other too much and I unfollowed you a while ago — but to the rest? I love you but I’ll see you next week, after the (apparently mandatory) decade-later coverage.
we do sick right.
turnabout:
me: i think i could have more theraflu. maybe i should add a shot of gin to that M: yes. well, only if you don’t have bourbon me: i do, but it’s lemon flavored theraflu. i think the gin might be nice.
If she’s posting it, ‘M’ is me.
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more recommendations - the Lower East Side Sex...
turnabout:
This just came up with a friend. Say you want to go shopping for bras and other personal items. The Lower East Side is your friend. And I rarely think that about the Lower East Side.
Orchard Street Corset - This is the infamous Chasidic Bra Man. If you are hard-to-fit, he will have your size. You may not have a lot of choice in color, but it will fit, and you will look great in your...