January 2010
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“I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly...”
– Dave Eggers
Via: Wilson Miner from here
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Daily dilemma
This morning, after being
punched awake
by my cell phone alarm
from a deep deep dream rearranging
almost everything
I had thought of yesterday
—high school
high school football players
running into a friend’s ex-girl
brainstorming names for a neuroscience center—
the bathroom white light blinded my eyes shut.
I must have showered
After all this,
slow,
torturous,
...
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WatchAlex Roman has three eyes and seven hands.
In this opening sequence teaser to his shortfilm pseudoreel, The Third & The Seventh, you won’t believe your eyes, that what you’re seeing is 98% CGI. The fluidity of the rising smoke, the light reflecting off the pen, the wood grain on the drawers, the translucence of the red film, the scratches on the metal of the camera. To have his...
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Music Monday: “Home” by Edward Sharpe...
Good one
(Doug flips coin into the air a couple of times)
Me: What are you flippin' on, man?
(I think, Where we will go tonight? Who's going to win the game?)
Doug: Oh, I dunno... The Duplicity of Life..
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“If you can have one great idea, you can have 1,000.”
– John Hegarty, co-founder of ad agency BBH
Via: AdWeek
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Smooth scrolling
Lately I’ve become acutely aware of how I scroll through webpages, particularly on a laptop. (I still have a desktop, but my roommate has been uber-kind enough to let me commandeer his MacBook practically every evening, all evening. Thanks, Stahl.)
To scroll down blogs and news articles (most of what I read online and typically the most vertically designed sites), I used to be stuck with a...
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Music Monday: “What A Wonderful Man”...
“You will find it impossible to believe what all the people you know now will...”
– Alex Carnavale’s advisor
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Technology exponentially aids Haiti
A whole lot of help is greater than the sum of its parts. Here are astronomical numbers—which would be impossible without 21st century technology—that are providing much-needed funds, awareness and crisis support after the January 12th earthquake rattled the historically poverty-stricken country:
8,600,000+ people have received updates on how to help via high-profile Twitterers Ashton...
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Music Monday: “Horchata” by Vampire...
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“Someone asked me where I get all my good ideas, explaining that it takes him a...”
– Seth Godin
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Music Monday: “When My Time Comes” by...