May 2012
1 post
April 2012
8 posts
The fear that also drove Microsoft
Jason Kottke muses about the consequences of user lock-in:
“I’m not so sure about this…it’s too easy for people to pick up and move out of Instagram-town for other virtual towns, thereby creating a ghost town and a massively devalued economy. After all, the same real-world economic forces that allowed a dozen people to build a billion dollar service in two years means a...
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Love is love is love is love. Moar love plz, not less.
March 2012
5 posts
pretty dumb things: 13 ways of looking at an... →
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White male nerd culture’s last stand - Salon.com →
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Umpqua Bank's bullshit checking accounts
Last year, I made the decision to move my money out of Bank of America, largely for political reasons. The bank I chose to hold my money was Umpqua Bank, a local community bank that had a branch within walking distance of my home. The distance thing was a primary factor in my decision, but I also liked the idea of a checking account that had no fees (as long as I maintained a minimum average daily...
February 2012
1 post
Classic Beauties Get A Shocking Photoshop... →
ginamak:
“What would have happened if the aesthetic standard of our society had belonged to the collective unconscious of the great artists of the past?” So asks Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano in her Venus project, which re-imagines classic artistic depictions of Venus with a modern and extreme Photoshop makeover.
January 2012
4 posts
Reblog if you legally purchased something BECAUSE...
watertightvines:
And without the so-called piracy, you would never have discovered or gotten into it to begin with.
Yup.
December 2011
9 posts
Brian's 2011 year end wrap up
2011 felt like a year where I spent most of my time dealing with the ongoing but dwindling after effects of previous years. Deaths, breakups, decisions, accidents, mistakes.
Mostly bad. There were some positive consequences, too, but they feel overwhelmed now, in the final waning hours of the year. I’d still like to acknowledge the good, though.
Debt: my debt, as I’ve said many...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Black Flag (6)
P!nk (5)
The Decemberists (4)
David Bowie (4)
Joni Mitchell (3)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Bad Religion (4)
Black Flag (3)
Sage Francis (3)
Amy Winehouse (3)
Cake (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Culture Club (8)
Social Distortion (5)
Black Flag (3)
Queen (2)
Sage Francis (2)
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November 2011
11 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Radiohead (24)
Cake (14)
The Decemberists (11)
The Blues Brothers (10)
Breaking Bad (10)
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WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Secret Fed Loans Gave... →
soupsoup:
Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Radiohead (3)
Breaking Bad (3)
P!nk (3)
Blues Traveler (3)
Cort and Fatboy (3)
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“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Beck (13)
Radiohead (11)
Bad Religion (7)
Queen (3)
Electric Light Orchestra (3)
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“#OccupyWallStreet has taught us that
-we have a time limit to practice our 1st...”
– Posted on Twitter by @AntiSec_ and re-posted here for truth.
October 2011
42 posts
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Your hair more blonde than the auburn it was
I watched you approach as my friend was talking to me about something related to the labor union march we had both just participated in. I don’t know, I tuned him out. Your face and your bearing struck me and I could not take my eyes off your face. You walked up, stood next to us, your eyes intently on the screen, looking at the time or the schedule being displayed. Not once did your eyes...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
The White Stripes (42)
Radiohead (15)
Queens Of The Stone Age (14)
Green Day (13)
Amy Winehouse (12)
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“The key thing here is that critiques like Schoen’s are designed to get people to...”
– Greg Sargent, “What Occupy Wall Street’s critics are really trying to accomplish”, 10/18/2011
Or as I like to translate critics: “Occupy Wall Street will never grow as a movement until they convince people like me to stop criticizing them.” Many of the people who claim...