February 2012
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The Adventures of The Adventures of Pete & Pete |... →
“We really believed in Nickelodeon, and at the time it was designed to be the ‘anti-Disney,’” McRobb said. “Disney was about a certain way of looking at childhood and Nickelodeon was about trying to capture what was a little more real about being a kid. And so we felt fiercely proud of that identity, especially in the promo department. That analogy of a ‘collective,’ of independently-minded...
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The Book of Jobs | The Great Debate →
But like all the other internal contradictions that seem to endlessly fascinate the punditry elite about Steve Jobs, this apparent conflict between Jobs’ profound affinity for technology and his bizarre unwillingness to allow it to save his life is another pointless straw man that only serves to further elide the very Jobsian simplicity that lies beneath:
There once lived one of those...
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making...”
– A.A. Milne
City Journal - How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back by... →
As their numbers increased, the professionals crossed Brooklyn Heights and trekked deeper into the blue-collar borough. Osman refers to the settlers as “romantic urbanists”; they—or should I say “we”?—were looking for an organic connection to history and an echo of rural life. With the help of a surging real-estate industry, we gave our new enclaves bucolic names—Heights, Hills, Gardens—and...
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The End of the Future - Peter Thiel →
When tracked against the admittedly lofty hopes of the 1950s and 1960s, technological progress has fallen short in many domains. Consider the most literal instance of non-acceleration: We are no longer moving faster. The centuries-long acceleration of travel speeds — from ever-faster sailing ships in the 16th through 18th centuries, to the advent of ever-faster railroads in the 19th century,...
Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a... →
secretrepublic:
More studies reveal what we already know… and yes, that is a picture of Copenhagen.
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“It strikes me that the current fetishization of analog technology has less to do...”
– “The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg”
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“Last year, about 70 percent of its estimated $237 million operating profit went...”
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Bloomberg on troubles at the New York Times.
There is no good answer to this problem that doesn’t involve a time machine. Better answers, yes, but not good ones.
Holy bleeding cash-cow, Batman.
January 2012
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“The business climate has entered a next-two-hours era, which I call the Age of...”
– (Saving…) Robert Safian: Generation Flux (via mediafuturist)
If you can’t see the future, carve it the hell out of the present.
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“Successful creative thinkers see opposites and apparently contradicting goals...”
– Co.Design
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4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is... →
Indie capitalism is, above all, a maker system of economics based on creating new value, not trading old value. It embraces all the strains of maker culture—food, indie music, DIY, craft, 3-D digital fabrication, bio-hacking, app enabling, CAD modeling, robotics, tinkering. Making is not a rare act performed by a few but a routine happening in which just about everyone participates. Making and...
Steve Jobs: ‘What’s wrong with education cannot be... →
“You don’t get to do what you want. You don’t get to pick your books, your curriculum. You get to teach one narrow specialization. Who would ever want to do that?”
iBooks Textbooks is a front for the real innovation push: iTunes U.
Mitt & Taxes [drewbot] →
I fail to see the logic of relocating a family, devoting years of effort to a campaign, and spending large chunks of money (indirectly at this point; Mitt hasn’t funded his campaign) in an attempt to lead America while hiring specialists to keep as much of your money from government coffers as possible. The disconnect is telling.
There goes your class warfare card, Mitt. Good luck in the...
nike fuel = mass cool | Influxinsights →
Suddenly, I have a vision of participating with my peers and also comparing myself to the greats- the possibilities and application of this data both social and beyond are pretty infinite. I can see televised basketball games with Fuel data running on a ticker, I can see challenges between athletes across different sports- the list goes on and that’s not even considering the opportunity to...
How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the... →
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dotconor:
Unlike stealing a car, copying a song doesn’t necessarily inflict a tangible loss on another. Estimating that loss requires counterfactual assumptions about what the world would have been like if the piracy had never happened — and, no surprise, those most affected tend to assume the worst.
YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A PIZZA
I WOULD ABSOLUTELY DOWNLOAD A PIZZA IF I COULD! ...
How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the... →
Unlike stealing a car, copying a song doesn’t necessarily inflict a tangible loss on another. Estimating that loss requires counterfactual assumptions about what the world would have been like if the piracy had never happened — and, no surprise, those most affected tend to assume the worst.
YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A PIZZA
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