December 2011
14 posts
“Culture expands by subsuming its edges;the edges grow outward by defacing and...”
– Makers and breakers | Blog | Futurismic
Dec 30th
“I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is...”
– Steve Jobs on Why Computers Are Like a Bicycle for the Mind (1990) | Brain Pickings
Dec 28th
“These intermediaries, known as community knowledge workers (or CKWs), are chosen...”
– Africa’s mobile economic revolution | Technology | The Observer
Dec 24th
“Harper does indeed have a Daily Mail plan. He has just signed a border agreement...”
– Canada goes tabloid | Heather Mallick | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Dec 22nd
“Titus Levi, a professor at the United International College in Zhuhai, southern...”
– Asia Times Online :: THE ROVING EYE: Occupy World Street
Dec 19th
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
–  E.E. Cummings (via sabbatical)
Dec 16th
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Frank Chimero: A Series of Ill-Informed Hunches... →
viafrank: I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say “none of your business” in the past 10 years. This is either because social media has deteriorated our sense of entitlement to privacy, we all lust after visibility now, or my manners have gotten better. I can not decide. The word inception will soon be a…
Dec 16th
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“A major lesson I’ve learned (which I had to teach myself) is that it’s OK to cut...”
– Simplicity - Matt Gemmell
Dec 12th
“pushing back at the shabbiness of simulacra”
– An Interview with William Gibson « Canadian Notes & Queries
Dec 12th
“So stop getting caught off guard when your favorite project sells out! “They...”
– Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
Dec 7th
“I found the material of the actual 21st Century richer, stranger, more...”
– BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK
Dec 7th
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ
Dec 7th
“The hard question, I think, is: long-form writing benefits enormously from a...”
– Clay Shirky - The Barnes & Noble Review
Dec 7th
“Watching the paper being printed, feeling the rumble of the machines, we became...”
– russell davies: again with the post digital
Dec 2nd