September 2008
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“Street fairs supposedly help communities by giving a lot of money. I don’t...”
– Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Soko - I’ll Kill Her
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“At Momofuku, we’ve made a name for ourselves selling lots of pig and not...”
– David Chang, What the 21st Century Will Taste Like
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“I therefore spent most of the 1980s on the horns of a dilemma that many addicts...”
– David Foster Wallace
Milow - Ayo Technology (50 Cent Cover)
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“When I was 5 or so my mom would tell me to lie down before she tied my tie and I...”
– from One Sentence.org
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“Start with the near-universal assumption that what Spitzer did in his hotel room...”
– Is Pornography Adultery? - Ross Douhat, The Atlantic
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“A notebook is basically the creative equivalent of the NFL jersey you picked up...”
– Merlin Mann, Time, Attention, and Creative Work (via factoryjoe)
Smashing Pumpkins - Dancing in the Moonlight
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David Foster Wallace Memories →
McSweeney’s is publishing lists of memories of David Foster Wallace. I’ve been reading them on Instapaper on the morning train. They’re poignant, some are over-stylized. It’s a wonderful use of the web.
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The Fourth Quadrant: A Map of the Limits of... →
My classical metaphor: A Turkey is fed for 1,000 days—every day confirms to its statistical department that the human race cares about its [the turkey’s] welfare “with increased statistical significance”. On the 1001st day, the turkey has a surprise.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb takes on those who use statistical tools without understanding the body of knowledge that is actually...
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“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by...”
– Paul J Tillich, quoted by Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (via machinetext)
“This is a once-in-a-half-century, probably once-in-a-century type of event. I...”
– Alan Greenspan in the New York Times
I think that Greenspan’s quote hits at a cause for real fear: if the institutions that shepherd money into the businesses that drive growth in the economy cease to exist, the economy will cease to exist. With AIG on the ropes, many of the largest...
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“Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform —...”
– David Foster Wallace
“I’m done with web standards. I’m done reading specs. I’m done caring whether a...”
– jeff croft via strelau
From the same article: “Hixie suggests HTML 5 will reach the “Proposed Recommendation” stage sometime in 2022. Go ahead, read it again. It’s not a typo. Two thousand twenty two.”
Shotgun Jimmie - Bedhead
via emy
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“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the...”
– Andy Warhol
I’ve been thinking about what brands stand for recently. I don’t really have any clear articulations yet, but I think the Andy Warhol quote helps. They’re aspirational and they represent the infrastructure that makes it possible to deliver a consistent experience...
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Ben Kweller - Ice Ice Baby
via peterwknox &...
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“I think this is why so much of the work that comes from large companies is so...”
– Jonathan Harris
