February 2012
2 posts
“But you? You are not Steve Jobs. You are not better at design than everyone in...”
– A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
4 posts
Chris Pudney's interactive visualisation of... →
The main ideas I was interested in visualizing were what happened, when, and who was present. The whenquestion is particularly interesting due to Wallace’s use of Subsidised Time. It became clear as I was preparing the data that much of the book is set during the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, but I pressed on with the visualization anyway.
So cool.
WatchShan Carter on Data Storytelling
Shan Carter, who makes interactive graphics for The New York Times, talks telling stories with data in his aptly named presentation, “How I tried for years to find the perfect form for interactive graphics, how I failed, and why, whether a perfect form exists or not, I’ve stopped my desperate pursuit.”
He starts with finding a balance between...
“At One Police Plaza, we protesters had been the only occupants of our cell. We’d...”
– News Desk: Central Booking : The New Yorker by Keith Gessen
November 2011
3 posts
“There’s no way to take a time-out from our social life and describe it to a...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
The Shadow Superpower - By Robert Neuwirth |... →
” “Systeme D” … essentially translates as the ingenuity economy, the economy of improvisation and self-reliance, the do-it-yourself, or DIY, economy. … Today, System D is the economy of aspiration. It is where the jobs are. In 2009, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) … concluded that half the workers of the world — close to 1.8 billion...
October 2011
1 post
Articles: The Decade in Indie | Features |... →
More and more, we define ourselves— or pride ourselves, or at least “express” ourselves— via our skills in picking interesting things out of that cloud of options. We probably shouldn’t be surprised that somewhere in this process, “indie” completed its trip from being the province of freaks and geeks to something with cachet— something that appeals to people’s sense of themselves as...
June 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
October 18th, 2010
themonkeysyouordered:
This traffic jam is pretty bad.
love this.
February 2011
1 post
cool. in 17 days i can post to this blog again, and a yearlong tumblr sabbatical will fade neatly into the background - elegantly foreshortened by the casual MMMdd date format.
ps. dammit.
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
5 posts
The Brooklyn Bridge: not always so beloved «... →
right, eat that jane jacobs! maybe somebody will be saying the same thing about atlantic yards in 100 years. or, y’know, maybe they’ll just wonder what was up with the people who built the big ugly mall.
January 2010
15 posts
Money ... talks? →
The LA Times, on the Supreme Court’s decision today that allows corporations to spend money electioneering. From the article:
“Until Thursday, corporations and unions were barred from spending their own treasury funds on broadcast ads, campaign workers or billboards that urge the election or defeat of a federal candidate. … Thursday’s decision swept away all these...
Scumbag
I have CNN’s headlines on my Google page, and this was the top headline: Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for ‘pact to the devil’. From the article…
Pat Robertson, the evangelical Christian who once suggested God was punishing Americans with Hurricane Katrina, says a “pact to the devil” brought on the devastating earthquake in Haiti. … Robertson, the host...
fox is so ha-ha
“Nancy Pelosi,” O’Reilly said to Palin referencing the Speaker of the House, “….do you think that she’s a kook?”
“I think she, too, is quite disconnected from what her constituents are telling her — and constituents all over the country …” Palin replied, before O’Reilly cut back in and upped the ante on Pelosi as...
The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force →
I’d like to learn more about this physics thing, sometime.
From slashdot.
Things startups do and don't need
excellent.
cdixon:
Things startups do need
Sunny office
Windows that open
Democratically controlled music system
Two forms of internet access
Beer on fridays
EVDO cards
Video game system
Good coffee maker
Proximity to public transportation
Proximity to park
Heating that goes all night
Health care plans for everyone
Mac laptops with second monitors
Plants
Lots of in-person...
fort greene →
the times gives mention to fort greene’s history as home-to-writers. they’ve missed a couple, sure, but who?
Relativity
It’s late, you’re on the subway for what seems forever and you realize: Einstein was right. Time slows down sometimes.
December 2009
14 posts
1 tag
Cormac McCarthy might be a little crazy...
…but geez is Blood Meridian a fantastic book. McCarthy wraps his crazy in mysticism, and, it should be said, more than a bit of blood and scalp - but this book is a searing experience. It’s like if ts elliot wrote the book of revelations. or something.
The David Foster Wallace grammar challenge →
1 tag
Just Read...
Operation Wandering Soul, by Richard Powers. Powers does this allegory thing about belief and cynicism that is devastatingly beautiful. Read it with the back of your brain, it will move you.
