Month: September 2013
September 22, 2013
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Seems @couristan doesn’t like people dressing up as their carpets. Sends C&D:
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In advance of tonight’s #breakingbad here’s a crowdsourced analysis of last week’s #ozymandias:
http://poetry.rapgenius.com/Moira-walley-beckett-ozymandias-lyrics
/ht @jaygoldman
September 21, 2013
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U.K. architect Will Alsop designs Yonge St. condo for North Toronto: Hume | Toronto Star
Plans for a Will Alsop-designed condo at the corner of Yonge St. and Strathgowan Ave. have yet to go to the city. By Urban Issues Sun., Feb. 3, 2013 Normally, the launch of yet another condo on Yonge St. would pass unnoticed, except by the neighbours. But it will be hard not to notice the project…
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“Tim Cook is a Great CEO”:
http://stratechery.com/2013/tim-cook-is-a-great-ceo/
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That Mind-Bending Phone Call on Last Night’s ‘Breaking Bad’
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Svefn-g-englar
by Sigur Roshttp://j.mp/1aSE1jm
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September 20, 2013
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I just ordered myself a 2014 Hobonichi Planner.
http://pingmag.jp/2013/08/30/hobonichi-planner/
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Cat picture:
http://www.pidjin.net/2013/09/20/cat-pics/
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I ordered coloured pens from Japan. The stuff in the box is half the fun. pic.twitter.com/gE9wNvsvH8
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September 19, 2013
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Oh! If you haven’t seen it, check out Bryan Cranston reading the actual “Ozymandias” poem:
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I’m watching the “Ozymandias” episode of Breaking Bad for the third time. Just amazing.
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Okay, the “Girls Don’t Poop” Ad/Viral is ace. Not the target market (I guess) but watched the whole thing.
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The Arctic Monkeys album is amazing. Incredibly muscular and sexy and fresh. Likely winner of best rock album this year.
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@codyrennie You mean you don’t have more people at your house than there are pandas in the world?
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Users Know: To Kill or Not to Kill
After my rant last week about product managers , the excellent Joshua Porter ( @bokardo ) made a great point about it. He said, “In my own experience the hard part is knowing when to kill something vs. when to give it more breathing room, as sometimes a really new idea can’t really be tested in low…
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Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s Little Joey Ramone!
http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2013/09/welcome-to-show-business-69_12.html
September 18, 2013
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I’m exploring the VERY early roots of screamo tonight:
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Colonel Sanders and Alice Cooper:
http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2013/09/when-legends-gather-817.html
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Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Illustration: Tom Whalen 7 Massive Ideas That Can Change the World Inside the Overstimulated, Underregulated, Multinational Caffeine Industry Mutants Simple doesn’t just sell, it sticks. Simple made hits of the Nest thermostat, Fitbit, and TiVo. Simple brought Apple back from the dead. It’s why you…
September 17, 2013
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‘Django’ Untangled: the Legend of the Bad Black Man – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Great piece on Django’s roots in Stagolee, Bad Lazarus and Railroad Bill: http://t.co/rfsjKUIT
September 16, 2013
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The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a next web. The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifestream , a phenomenon that I (with Eric Freeman) predicted in the 1990s and…
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Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe? : Nature News & Comment
http://j.mp/1eiCreC
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September 15, 2013
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Kudos to @rianjohnson for one of the best hours of TV ever.
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Has that much ever happened in one hour of television?