December 2010
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via hyperallergic)
“I guess Canadians are without opinion. Normally, Americans always have these...”
– Norm McDonald on the difference between Canadians and Americans.
“Someone once asked Napoleon how he decided where to assign soldiers. Napoleon’s...”
– Dumb and gets things done — The Endeavour (via socmoth)
“In an article entitled “The Economics of Superstars,” he argued that...”
– Income Inequality and the ‘Superstar Effect’ - NYTimes.com (via rafer)
Prodigy Releasing Autobiography →
tumblinerb:
LOOK WHAT HE BRINGS TO THE COFFEE TABLE
Hippocratic face →
readmorewikipedia:
The Hippocratic face is the change produced in the face by impending death, or long illness, excessive hunger, and the like.
“[If the patient’s facial] appearance may be described thus: the nose sharp, the eyes sunken, the temples fallen in, the ears cold and drawn in and their lobes distorted, the skin of the face hard, stretched and dry, and the colour of the face pale...
“Whenever we come upon a wild new frontier, we jump up and down and say we’re...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Same shit, different medium
But read the rest, because this quote is just a small part of the critique, namely:
The problem with a high vantage point is that you can’t see the details, and if you stand there long enough you begin to believe that the details don’t...
Watchfletcherlives:
This dude’s been inspiring me since I was just a little punk kid skateboarding around an ultra-conservative Utah suburb. Thanks man.
igotbored:
Ian MacKaye
Watchtumblinerb:
G. Dep f/ Faith Evans - “Everyday (Remix)” (Bad Boy, 2001) NY Post: G. Dep confesses to murder from 17 years ago ”Head Over Wheels” is the traditional real head selection when discussing the G. Dep catalog but this, the oft-overlooked third single from Child Of The Ghetto, always felt much realer.
“You may have heard that Delicious is shutting down (or not?). Someone on Twitter...”
– notes on “learn to program in 24 hours”
I love @torrez for this. God, I despise the idiot commenters who say, “I could code $service_name in a weekend”. (via secondverse)
Tourism in Afghanistan →
Hann sells his Afghanistan tours as a chance to see the country’s rugged outback while sleeping on dirty teahouse floors and tackling the country’s roads in minibuses that buck like mechanical bulls. It’s also an opportunity to gamble your life on his instincts and experience in order to be a tourist in a place that barely has any. There are no backpackers or bus-tour day-trippers in...
Indra's Net →
Indra’s net (also called Indra’s jewels or Indra’s pearls) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of emptiness, dependent origination, and interpenetration in Buddhist philosophy. The metaphor of Indra’s net was developed by the Mahayana Buddhist school in the 3rd century scriptures of the Avatamsaka Sutra, and later by the Chinese Huayan school between the 6th and...
What's wrong with OpenID? →
marco:
The short answer is that OpenID is the worst possible “solution” I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don’t really have. That’s what’s “wrong” with it.
(via Alex Payne)
“The ugly adolescent stage is when you’ve built the product and are now building...”
– Fred Wilson posted Saturday on AVC.com
I am am going to have this quote framed and put it on the wall above my desk. This so greatly sums up how to make money as a entrepreneur, investor in companies, etc. It also sums up every single venture I have been involved in so far (except...
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s...”
– Warren Buffet. American investor and the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (via fuckyeahanarchopunk)