April 2009
32 posts
From Brain to Twitter, do not pass keyboard, go... →
kyllei:
I read this on Thursday but I have come back to it twice now to reread it because it’s just that fascinating!
“3) The Kindle. Electronic readers like the Kindle are going to have a huge...”
– From a list on “The Future of Publishing” from The Rumpus. Also see their coverage about a new on-demand book printing machine. I’m really loving The Rumpus, lately. (via glynnis:peterwknox:mikehudack) (via heyitsnoah)
Watchkenyatta:
Know Your Meme: Christian Bale Rant
Never got around to writing up notes on this episode last week.
The Christian Bale Rant was one of those events that was ridiculously popular for a hot second but had an incredibly fast roll off. Because of that, we decided to concentrate on the reasons why it fell off so fast instead of retelling a story that everyone already seemed to know.
One...
Pretend You Can Hear Me: 21 very short stories →
@bre just tweeted this. An IM love story. So good.
1 Charles: It’s raining here
Rosa: Here too Charles: It’s not the same rain
Rosa: I know
Go read them all!
A Cyber-Attack on an American City →
By Bruce Perens
Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported.
That attack demonstrated a severe fault...
It *is* how hard you work.
innonate:
“There is only one factor that matters. Results. That’s the difference between being an entrepreneur vs. being a rank-and-file employee is being rewarded for results (ownership) vs. being rewarded for punching the clock alone (a paycheck). Obsessive/addictive work habits can lead to results, but they don’t guarantee them - and under certain conditions, they inhibit them.”
— Greg...
“rt @gleuch even the @knowyourmeme error pages bring the lulz. (404)...”
– kenyatta (via joshkinberg)
What happened to my old internet?
Today we learned that even in the most liberal of countries you can go to jail and be fined for 1mm dollars for linking to pirated material hosted on someone else’s computer. We also learned that here in the United States the FBI has been actively using spyware technologies to keep tabs on us.
Where’s the outrage? Why aren’t the pages going black? Why are people tweeting...
It's the second taste that gets us
It’s days like this that I love walking to work. New York is blossoming with people. The bikes suddenly seem to outnumber the cars. The sidewalks are suddenly crowded again. It’s because it’s the second taste that gets us.
It’s as if we tend to collectively forget that winter doesn’t go down that easy. A nice day springs up and we think, “Oh, spring is...
Dear Digg, *url, and now Videoegg,
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Love,
Justin
Your parenthetical aside of the day, space...
All quotes from space are misquoted. It’s “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” and “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
“Jesus Christ, have you ever clicked the handicap sign next to the captcha when...”
– Zosia Blue (she’s right —> try yourself)
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BBS: The Documentary →
I watched some of this last night at NYC Resistor and all the memories came flooding back. The threads, the people, the door games, and the meetups, it was quite a special time. My board was called The Straylight Run, and specialized in programming and the demo scene.
Browsing around while the movie was going I was happy to find Renegade is still around and has even had a few updates.
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WatchKacie Kinzer’s adorable tweenbots reaffirm my love for NYC.
Watchjaredklett:
Videoblogging Week Day 1: Watch me blather about the origins of blip.tv and my defunct videoblog spokes.tv
