May 2013
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The Great Google Goat Rodeo →
mwunsch:
Google is not “evil”. Google is too big to be evil. At its worst, Google is banal.
Lovely post which echoes a lot of my thoughts about Big G.
Google still has a handful of genius, best-of-breed properties and technologies, but it also has a muddled money-making side that makes me uncomfortable.
With every product announcement, you have to scrape away at the details to try and...
“So Last Splash is a tight record that’s also alive with happy accidents....”
– Pitchfork’s review of LSXX
Hard to imagine Cannonball without that bass intro.
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“If you love doing something, under no condition should you start a VC-backed...”
– Aza Raskin: Psychological Pitfalls And Lessons of A Designer-Founder
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WatchThe Breeders Perform “Cannonball” on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (via Laughing Squid)
Gawd, I love Kim Deal.
“Ask any of the thousands of women that I’ve been with, before or after being...”
– Highlighted by Rod Begbie in The President of Vice by The Onion
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“Flight update: Gremlin on the wing. Not unusual. Gremlin on the wing holding a...”
– How I Keep Myself Amused on Long Flights – Whatever
Brilliant series of tweets from John Scalzi
“Vickery told police he got into the home through an unlocked door. He told...”
– Burglary suspect admits to performing sex act in couple’s home
via @_FloridaMan. Of course.
“Where I have issues with Facebook is that they’re dishonest about who the...”
– Mike Monteiro on Facebook design, How Facebook Designs the ‘Perfect Empty Vessel’ for Your Mind
“We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community!”
– Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots
I less-than-three billg.
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“So much ink has been spilled deriding the false concept of a “Facebook...”
– I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet | The Verge
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WatchGot to love Brian Wilson, the hippo at San Francisco Zoo
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April 2013
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“I’m so homesick 😩😩😩 I can’t wait to get back to the D
Oh it’s...”
– Automagically generated Twitter Limericks
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““Find people carrying black bags,” wrote the Reddit forum’s unnamed moderator....”
– Police, citizens and technology factor into Boston bombing probe - The Washington Post
“Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must...”
– Gabby Giffords
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Simon Ricketts: Twitter and news: The canary down... →
simonnricketts:
The point is, perhaps that Twitter for a news-gatherer – in my experience – has very often become the “canary down the mine”. It senses the gas leak first, mostly correctly. And then it dies.
It is a signal. A switch. A warning light that only does one job. And then it becomes largely useless. And perhaps it is time to realise the change. Perhaps it is time to take a...
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“As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it’d be easy to be...”
– Bruce Schneier
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“Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own. But making plans...”
– Google Public Policy Blog: Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager
Awesome and necessary feature from the Google. Who wants to inherit my Google Plus page when I snuff it?
“When I look at the tech industry in 2013, when I see what passes for innovation...”
– Inspire Talk (via iamdanw)
“It always struck me as peculiar, too, when the Spice Girls briefly championed...”
– Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: ‘I always felt sorry for her children’
Probably the best thing I’ve read about Maggie the last couple of days, from someone who much like me, grew up in Thatcher’s Britain, but was too young to really understand her while she was still in...
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“Despite all this San Francisco offers a rare luxury in today’s economy to a...”
– The San Francisco Safety Net (via iamdanw) 