March 2010
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December 2009
2 posts
Watchdbreunig:
Traffic to the NYTimes.com on the day Michael Jackson died:
Just watching these maps glow can be a mesmerizing experience, but there’s another fascinating piece of data within this particular day. At about 1 minutes 10 seconds into the video, at 5:20 p.m., you can see a huge pulse of readers coming to the Web site, both from mobile devices and personal computers. This huge traffic bump...
November 2009
6 posts
The Billion Dollar O-Gram
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WSJ: How does that ticking clock affect your work? Does it make you want to write more shorter pieces, or to cap things with a large, all-encompassing work? CM: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. Posted via email from 2young2die’s posterous | Comment »
Disneyland - 1964
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Catwalk
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Grafix
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Berlin Insane
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September 2009
2 posts
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“I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the...”
– Charlie Brooker
June 2009
8 posts
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Revolutionary Road
April Wheeler: Don't you see? That's the whole idea! You'll be able to do what you should have been aloud to do seven years ago, you'll have the time. For the first time in your life, you'll have the time to find out what it is you actually want to do. And when you figure it out, you'll have the time and the freedom, to start doing.
Frank Wheeler: This doesn't seem very realistic.
April Wheeler: No, Frank. This is what's unrealistic. It's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working year after year at a job he can't stand. Coming home to a place he can't stand, to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things. And you know what the worst part of it is? Our whole existence here is based on this great premise that we're special. They we're superior to the whole thing. But we're not. We're just like everyone else! We bought into the same, ridiculous delusion. That we have to resign from life and settle down the moment we have children. And we've been punishing each other for it
May 2009
1 post
The Surveillance Society →
March 2009
2 posts
February 2009
4 posts
Much Madness is divinest Sense—
To a discerning Eye—
Much Sense—the starkest Madness—
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail—
Assent—and you are sane—
Demur—you’re straightway dangerous—
And handled with a Chain—
Emily Dickinson
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“I’m reminded of a line from William S. Burroughs’s novel The Ticket...”
December 2008
2 posts
Can you render the Mona Lisa using just 50 semitransparent polygons and a mutating DNA sequence? Sure. (given 904,314 iterations)
S-MART. →
November 2008
3 posts
1 tag
“The democratic constituent bodies of our state will be denied the right to...”
– President Klaus on the Lisbon Treaty
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“Demokraticky konstituouvané orgány našeho státu budou zbaveny práva rozhodovat o...”
– Prezident Klaus proti evropské Lisabonské smlouvě
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Uncovered →
The War on Drugs was a phrase, or policy, coined by Richard Nixon in 1971 during his first term as President, as a conscious echo of Lyndon B Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’. Never in the history of warfare has a campaign been waged for so long with so few tangible results. Just look at the example of Colombia: it’s estimated that between 2000 and 2006, the US government...
October 2008
4 posts
The brokers with hands on their faces blog →
[no explanation required]
“In a society that belives in nothing fear becomes the only agenda.”
– The power of nightmares
Century of the self →
It was in a sense the triumph of the self. It was the triumph of a certain self indulgence; a view that everything in the world and all moral judgement was appropriately viewed through the lens of personal satisfaction . Indeed the ultimate ending point of that logic is that there is no society. There is only a bunch of individual people making individual choices to promote their own individual...
August 2008
3 posts
“One way of looking at the present situation would be to see it as the ultimate...”
July 2008
3 posts
“Two dangers never cease threatening the world: order and disorder”
– Paul Valery 1871-1945
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The Akwizgran Discrepancy
…when the new Kingdom of Belgium emerged in 1831 – much to the annoyance of the Congress Powers who had imposed the Vienna settlement on Europe after 1815 – there had been a demarcation error at the point where the borders of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands met. Somewhere between Aachen and Verviers, there existed a tiny triangular space, big enough to contain a house, a patch of field...
June 2008
2 posts
WatchNude
May 2008
1 post
WatchCrash
March 2008
2 posts
Quote of the day
We’ve not yet had the afternoon session at Euruku2008 but I think we’ve got a winner already - Matz refers to Python as “that dirty snake language”.
February 2008
3 posts
1 tag
Things I have learned in my life so far
Currently on show at Deitch Projects Grand Street gallery in New York is a new exhibition of work by Stefan Sagmeister. Here’s his full list of 20 maxims from his book by the same name available from Abrams:
1. Helping other people helps me.
2. Having guts always works out for me.
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
4. Organising a charity...
How to avoid driving yourself insane when...
Note to myself: DON’T assume that the RSpec bundle in the Textmate Repository is up to date. DO make sure that you’re running the same version of the Plugins, Gem and Rspec.tmbundle by checking out all three from the Rubyforge Rspec Repository.