February 2011
“In this city of everything big, all I have ever done is build really small...”
– Gabriel Stulman
That moment, before something becomes the next big thing, is pretty special. Can there be this kind of scarcity in a digital world where ubiquity is so highly valued?
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This is (to me, anyway) an extremely important question. I want to think some more, but...
January 2011
Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil, The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates Of snails, musician of pears, principium And lex. Sed quaeritur: is this same wig Of things, this nincompated pedagogue, Preceptor to the sea? Crispin at sea Created, in his day, a touch of doubt. An eye most apt in gelatines and jupes, Berries of villages, a barber’s eye, An eye of land, of simple salad-beds, Of...
lost in transcription
I keep trying to read this, but I haven’t been able to get past “Cream Junk Business Magazine.”
naveen:
Hi, Aaron. My name is Dam _______. I’m from Cream Junk Business Magazine. And we’d like to take the photograph of Dennis Crowly for our 40 under 40 and I just wanted to just give you some information about the time and dates our studio is gonna be set up for you know for...
“Rather than consider whether introducing a nonessential technology with minimal...”
– From How Steve Jobs ‘out-Japanned’ Japan, which is most interesting when read as a piece about Sony.
Beck - True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel...
Spring US Tour Dates Announced!!
megafaun:
We are very pleased to announce Spring US tour dates with our dear friends The Mountain Goats and Menomena!! If we’re coming to your town, come hang! More dates to be announced soon!
01-28 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall (Central Park School Benefit)^ 02-24 Columbia, SC - Columbia Museum of Art 03-15 New Orleans, LA - Republic# 03-16 Houston, TX - Warehouse Live# 03-24 Richmond,...
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Her goal, she said, is to deliver 630 million... →
maura:
I do not think “focus” means what you think it means, Carol Bartz.
Also, I would like SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION PONIES. Thank you.
The Rolling Stones - Torn and Frayed
On Digital Ephemera →
Being a blog post I forgot to write several weeks ago, on why I believe that the risk presented by “social” software that Tom Cunniff outlines in Monoculture Of The Mind: How Social Media Makes Us Dumber is probably balanced by another characteristic of that software.
Jimi Hendrix - Like a Rolling Stone (live at...
Thought for a Cold New York City Day
I’m sitting in my office in Manhattan right now, but I haven’t actually been outside in Manhattan today. My office building has an interior staircase down to the train station, which is also connected to the Rockefeller Center concourse, where I went to pick up my lunch.
This got me thinking: is there a document and/or a map covering all the places you can go in NYC without having to...
kottke's thoughts on kids and cameras - auto... →
themattsmith:
lefan-o-rama:
i mentioned around christmas how great it was to give a kid a camera and just see what happens. their perspective can be terribly surprising.
i think i may get one of these cards and give this auto-flickr a whirl.
This is a ridiculously cool idea
I love this.
For the past few years my mother has been buying disposable cameras for the 3 to 6yo set in our...
Brian Greene
nprfreshair:
Our guest on Monday has an Erdos-Bacon number of 5.
“Next was the Velvet Underground of computing”
– Mitch Kapor
Twitter / @Albert Wenger: Great breakfast with @mkap …
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