“I like that at a real bookstore, I can instantly tell the difference between works by actual historians and works by conspiracy theorists, since the real books are printed on good paper with pretty covers and the others are smudgy pamphlets. We need to bring those barriers of entry to the Internet, and speed is a way to to do it.”
MarineTraffic.com - this is super cool.
“Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites…”
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
This has been quoted in RWW and Gawker—in a derisive way. One of the follow ups: “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time… I mean we really have to think about these things as a society.”
This is not ridiculous.
Antony & the Johnsons - Here Comes the Sun
Guy Laramee
Claire Brewster
Robert The
Thomas Allen
Jacqueline Rush Lee
Su Blackwell
A book art sampler as I was looking for some design inspiration this morning. Included: Claire Brewster, Guy Laramee, Jacqueline Rush Lee, Robert The, Su Blackwell, Thomas Allen. Not included: Brian Dettmer—there’s enough of his work that I’ve posted before.
“The web is ruled by maniacs like Perez Hilton, Ron Paul zealots, Apple fan boys, blog commenters, animal lovers, and other crazy people.
Content is more viral if it helps people fully express their personality disorders
Couch potatoes don’t matter on the web, crazy people do”
“File this under “icebreakers, MacWorld ‘11”. Finally, statistical proof that iPhone users aren’t just getting fucked by Apple… The chart pretty much speaks for itself; I’ll just say that the numbers for all three brands are for 30 year-olds, so it’s not a matter of older, more experienced people preferring one phone to another. We found this data as part of our general camera-efficacy analysis: we crossed all kinds of user behaviors with the camera models and found we had data on the number of sexual partners for 9,785 people with smart phones.”
OkCupid, Don’t Be Ugly by Accident!
As always, OkCupid dishes up another amazing read. One of the things I’m particularly interested in is the model of cameras relative to attractiveness of picture. Understandly SLRs produce better pictures, but it’s interesting to note the brand / model stacking. Is that just a self-selection bias from the type of people that would gravitate to those cameras?
Jay-Z feat. Mr. Hudson - Young Forever
via alexbeaudet
