January 2010
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“Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming...”
– Donald Justice, Men at Forty
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The Chess Master and the Computer →
by Garry Kasparov
“This is our last chess metaphor, then—a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every year we have new chess programs, and new versions of old ones, that...
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“Men can communicate their testosterone levels through the way they dance…...”
– Peter “Dr. Dance” Lovatt, Sexual Politics of Dancing
via stephen
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“I was never in combat. But I did jump out of planes.” He [Brand] was a “weekend...”
– Stewart Brand, Financial Times
Elizabeth and the Catapults - Everybody Knows...
John Frusciante - Song to the Siren
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Skeet Skeet & Sky Ferreira - Happy Dre
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ffffl*ckr →
matthewb:
“Use it to find the photography you like using the simple idea that people whose work you like, probably like stuff you’ll like. You start with a set of pictures — if you authenticate, it’ll use 20 of your last 100 favorites — otherwise it’ll start with somebody’s favorites. Click any picture to load more.” Great idea, works beautifully. (via Jarred Bishop)
This is the kind of...
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Picture Plane - Goth Star
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“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist
(via peterwknox)
from the machinetext:
The Oblivians - Bad Man
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“Mobile phones do not share a single global moniker because the origins of their...”
– The Apparatgeist Calls - Mobile Phone Culture, The Economist
My Brightest Diamond - Feeling Good