October 2009
62 posts
Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us |... →
One of those under appreciated influences in our life and mood.
Avalanches - Thank You Caroline (Andy Votel Mix)
Radiohead - Knives Out
“The average life span of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years”...”
– Alexander Fraser Tytler (via poortaste) (via scottfriday)
“The North Korean regime is terrified of the illegal DVD industry because they...”
– Barbara Demick on Life in North Korea: News Desk : The New Yorker
“Korea’s excellent Internet infrastructure may be useless as long as its...”
– Korea’s Internet Is Mired in a Microsoft Monoculture
“And yet this real-time mentality – pictures/tweets or it didn’t happen –...”
– NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying about the real-time web
newspeedwayboogie:
Ridiculously hot song from...
“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s...”
– Norton Juster, “The City of Reality” in The Phantom Tollbooth (via rachell)
“It should be noted, of course, that 57% ain’t bad, given the public’s generally...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
“Nokia products say “Made in China” on the back. Chinese-made...”
– Clay Shirky on knock-offs
“A contented person with a whole heart, who has never doubted for a moment that...”
– Dirty Little Secret of Success – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
“The company’s ambitions are so enormous as to be almost surreal: to predict any...”
– The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell | Magazine
I saw Richard Rosenblatt give a talk about this company two and a half years ago and thought it was a disaster (they were buying up social networks and domains like crazy). Sometime in between then and now they really put on...
The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's... →
Fascinating read for anyone who was a precocious child.
“Nearly everyone reads. Soon, nearly everyone will publish.”
– A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
One of those trends that is going to change the world.
“Instead, Williams and Stone spend lots of time concocting schemes to boost the...”
– Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine
If a Twitter founder can’t make a good soundbite then nobody can.
“My Zen teacher once told me that when people try to do you harm, you should...”
– Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you [dive into mark] 