January 2009
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“I actually don’t like that. I have a feeling that there’s more concept in that...”
– Barbara Kafka on Wylie Dufresne and Molecular Gastronomy
In this wonderfully awkward conversation, Barbara Kafka (grand dame food critic) tears into Wylie Dufresne and tells him “let’s not get bitchy.” It’s a bit of a face-off between the molecular gastronomists and food...
Mountain Goats - Sax Rohmer #1
“Finally, the wait is over. PenVote is a new kind of voting technology firm. We...”
– PenVote
This is not a joke.
The Felice Brothers - Frankie’s Gun
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed
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“Fund of funds are a cancer on the institutional-investor world. They facilitate...”
– David Swensen
“I’ve never been all that interested in playing Hamlet. Hamlet is a role most...”
– Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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“The problem with MySpace or Facebook (which are examples of external organizing)...”
– Scott Goodstein, Mobile Director for Obama ‘08
Scott has highlighted the difference between tools and communities and why large campaigns far prefer to create their own communities and draw people away from things like Twitter and Facebook and bring them into their own communication...
After much deliberation (over a year), I’ve added comments—Marco forgive me. This is in anticipation of trying more often to express myself in my own words rather than presenting everything as an impressionist jumble.
I’ve also switched my theme up from GorillaWerks to Bill Israel’s Simplification. There are a number of things that I’m going to change over the coming...
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No Son of Mine Plays Oregon Trail Like That →
by Michael Nelson Price
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“The current financial debacle is really not a “liquidity” crisis as it is often...”
– Herman Daly
Created Commons →
“Let us take this remark as a point of departure to reflect on how American artists have been supported in fact, and on how they might be supported in the future. Let us see what lies hidden behind the cliché of self-reliance.”
-Lewis Hyde
I’ve been thinking a lot about different types of commons recently and I’ve always enjoyed Lewis Hyde. As a country, we’re...
Spank Rock - Put That Pussy on Me (Diplo Tonite...
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Stayin' Alive & CPR
Learned: the Bee Gee’s song Stayin’ Alive is the exact right tempo for performing CPR. Sometimes even medical professionals think about requesting it. Problem: I can only summon the syncopated Wyclef cover to mind. I should never be in charge of CPR.