December 2007
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The Beatles - I’ve Just Seen a Face...
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“It would be trivial to design a better interface than DOOM if the goal was to...”
– Jakob Nielsen
Fuck Buttons, Sweet Love for Planet Earth. Round...
“I don’t play golf. I don’t have a hobby. I’m pretty passionate...”
– Burt Reynolds
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“Holding back is the hardest thing for a cook to do, especially in a multicourse...”
– Mario Battali
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“When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I...”
– Steve Martin (on Charlie Rose)
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“There’s no reason to think that reading and writing are about to become extinct,...”
– Caleb Crain, Twilight of the Books in the New Yorker
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“In the past, a star like Rita Hayworth or Marilyn Monroe wore gravity defying...”
– David Denby
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be good tanyas - the littlest birds. a little...
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“mormonism has much better revenues than facebook”
– Jim Norris, gtalk status
My Friends and Their Weather
I’ve had an iPhone for several months. I like the weather presentation on the iPhone and Ioved how easy it was to add new cities. I liked it so much that when I was traveling and adding new cities, I’d leave them in the dashboard. Then I decided that I would start adding the cities where my friends live. I now have about 12 cities in my iPhone and I love it. As I walk to the subway, I...
Mason Jennings, Butterfly. Mason is becoming a...
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Joseph Arthur, Black Lexus. A regular at Austin...
Pop culture is taking over my brain—I went with the impulse to spell Jane Austin. I’ve been listening to too much great music from Austin City Limits festivals.
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“If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really...”
– Francis Ford Coppola
Shugo Tokumaru, Parachute. Curious, poppy,...
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“To explain, Mr. Schmidt steps up to a white board. He draws a rectangle and...”
– Google, Eric Schmidt, Microsoft, and the NY Times
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“When your local lingerie store sells homemade passion fruit popsicles for $1,...”
– Seth Kugel, NY Times. I’ve gotten really into outer-borough culinary excusions recently, Jackson Heights is prime territory.
“I make the movies the same way I cook dinner - I want people to come and enjoy...”
– Francis Ford Coppola, on Fresh Air right now
Porn for Girls by Girls →
It’s still somewhat unclear if this is a joke…
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“I guess I, when I was in my twenties, like deep down underneath all the bullshit...”
– David Foster Wallace, from an interview with Michael Silverblatt
Increasingly Dangerous Cheeses
Sharp Cheddar Extra-sharp Cheddar Jagged Havarti Ignorant Emmental Surly Roquefort Wayward feta Infectious Gorgonzola Belligerent Gouda Felonious Swiss Recidivist Brie Knife-wielding pepper jack Knife-wielding-zombie pepper jack Explosive Camembert American Army-of-mutant-tiger-spiders Asiago Nuclear-brinksmanship Provolone ...
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“There is a constant, one of the fundamental constants in physics, known as...”
– Charlie Munger, Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults After Considering Interdisciplinary Needs (pdf). Charlie is wonderful and Warren Buffet’s partner at Berkshire.
All of the downtown trains are being held. Excited for an excuse to walk and get an amazing hot chocolate.
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“For good or ill, when I went off to grad school, I studied linguistics, so the...”
– Larry Wall
“There is nothing like a multi-million dollar ad campaign to flush out any...”
– An unattributed Raindance Communications board-member.
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A note to young women writing letters: if you have to model someone, go for less Jane Austen and more Mae West.
WatchNo. 3 YACHT - “See a Penny Pick it up” (see Vimeo for the HD version) —via joelaz { I’m a huge YACHT fan; Jona is high-octane live. }
Smashing Pumpkins, Dancing in the Moonlight (a...
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“The ego theory holds that maintaining a diary demands a level of vanity and...”
– Louis Menand, New Yorker. This is why comments, analytics, and dashboards are useful—they take the vacuous out of a vacuum.