Month: September 2012
September 4, 2012
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A big week for new music! Jens Lekman, Cat Power, Animal Collective, Stars, Two Door Cinema Club, and The Vaccines.
September 3, 2012
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The Wachowskis’ World beyond “The Matrix” : The New Yorker
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Why High-Tech Companies Are Moving to the City –
http://WSJ.com
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Rival versions of capitalism: The endangered public company | The Economist
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Nancy Folbre: The Twilight of the Public Corporation –
http://NYTimes.com
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Clint Eastwood, GOP convention: The Romney campaign sells out its surprise speaker. – Slate Magazine
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Box Office Strong = Great Films
Box Office Weak = Poor Economyhttp://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/09/03/the-oogieloves-score-worst-movie-opening-of-all-time/
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The Gettysburg Principles for Keeping Your Customers
Jeff Vogel is managing to make a pretty good living as an indie game developer, even though his work is easily pirated. That’s likely because he’s come up with an effective anti-piracy technique that he explains in a section of Principles of an Indie Game Bottom-Feeder , subtitled “Piracy is a Thing…
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Anyone care to share a #kcup brewer reco?
I’m thinking Keurig B70:
http://www.amazon.com/Keurig-B70-Platinum-Brewing-System/dp/B000GTR2F6
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Every year on this day, I listen to this song…
September 2, 2012
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I can’t believe it took them this long to use “Crystal Blue Persuasion” on #breakingbad.
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I Totally Understand Why The Hobbit Needs To Be 3 Movies
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The Customer Buying Cycle | Rocket Watcher Startup Marketing
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The Overlook Hotel
New trailer for a 2016 UK limited theatrical re-release of The Shining. 2 weeks ago 93 notes Permalink Share Actress Shelley Duvall briefly discusses The Shining during a 1989 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. 1 month ago 28 notes Permalink Share Shelley Duvall speaks about her experience on The…
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A bittersweet day as we dropped @zoeschafer off at her UofT residence for frosh week. So happy for her, so sad she’s not my baby anymore.
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Have you seen Project Noah? A very cool idea. Here’s an example:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7201707
September 1, 2012
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If you are in Toronto there is a 70mm print of Playtime showing at the TIFF Lightbox Sunday night.
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I saw Jacques Tati’s Playtime today for the first time. What a marvel.
Read about it here:
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=15628
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Amazing! Congratulations! RT @johnmartz: My next picture book is Who’s On First? by Abbott & Costello:
http://quirkbooks.com/book/whos-first
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A very late lunch. (@ O&B Canteen)
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Stargate and Ester Dean, Making Music Hits : The New Yorker
Ester Dean, center, has written smash hooks for Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. Credit Illustration by Michael Gillette On a mild Monday afternoon in mid-January, Ester Dean, a songwriter and vocalist, arrived at Roc the Mic Studios, on West Twenty-seventh Street in Manhattan, for the first of five days of…
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I’m at TIFF Bell Lightbox for Playtime (Toronto, ON)
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Hey @Cobookapp, start charging already. I want you to stick around.
http://itun.es/ca/q9KtF.m
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The loneliest sight in the world just might be an old man in a minimart buying a backscratcher at 11:16 on a Monday night.
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This arctic ice sheet data is rather ominous but the chart presenting it is quite nicely designed.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/arctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
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How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations With Four Trappist Monks | The Awl
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The Epidemiology of an Internet Business
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Stanford researchers discover the ‘anternet’
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A speech by the late David Foster Wallace | Books | The Guardian
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