February 2012
3 posts
“This dead-feeling song may very well repulse you. I prefer it, however, to the...”
– An insightful piece not on just ‘Birthday Cake’ but Rihanna, Chris Brown, and domestic abuse.
Rihanna’s ‘Birthday Cake’: Reasons To Listen : The Record : NPR
(thx alexbaca)
“Like an escape hatch from a world of reality television and rehabilitation...”
– Rhizome | My Broken iPhone
The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO »... →
This post on the potential next CEOs of the NYTimes is well worth a read. Seriously. Read it. It makes me tremble with excitement.
January 2012
3 posts
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry |... →
This is an incredibly motivating story & shows what ambition can accomplish.
Iron Blogger
So it has long been an unfulfilled ambition to become a more regular blogger with, you know, actual content. So to kick off the new year, I joined Iron Blogger SF with a few friends to hopefully give me the kick in the pants that I needed. Here’s how it works: I blog every week, or I pay five bucks to go towards a beer fund which, when it gets big enough, we all go out with. I’m...
“At issue, then, is not nature or nurture but how nurture becomes nature: the...”
– Does Stripping Gender From Toys Really Make Sense? - NYTimes.com
December 2011
6 posts
“The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and...”
– Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick | Fast Company
“Most of us operate on what Wallace elsewhere calls the “default setting;” we...”
– David Foster Wallace’s syllabus: Is there any better? - Slate Magazine
“And where have we invested in segregated bicycle lanes? Along recreational...”
– Bike Infrastructure Is a Women’s Issue
There are a lot of other reasons women don’t ride bikes for transportation as much as men do (chief among which, I maintain, is that women are way more subject to judgement on their appearance, and many feel they’ll look sloppy if they ride a bike to work),...
“The Grammys, after years of modeling the wrong way, have quietly become one of...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones: Adele Will Likely Win Everything: The Grammy Noms : The New Yorker
November 2011
7 posts
“Ask Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you...”
– 10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)
If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large...
Marcellus Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, and the... →
If you didn’t know what fracking was (like me) or how you should feel about it (like me), I would recommend reading this.
Why the Keurig K-Cup is the beginning of the end... →
I haven’t been writing on my Tumblr a lot, so I’m trying to ramp it up a bit. About K-cups, and why the author isn’t a fan (via kottke):
“Wow, that’s great!”, you say. Cheap K-cups for all! That’s the American Way, after all, isn’t it? Um, yeah. Not always, but for the last 50 years or so, it actually has been, and it shows no sign of turning around anytime soon. So along...
October 2011
14 posts
“How do you make something that’s so claustrophobic and overpopulated feel like...”
– What People Talk About When They Talk About Life In New York « Thought Catalog
“And the thing is, openness is not the end goal of Open. Open is a means to an...”
– Open Is Dead. | John Geraci’s Blog
“Open isn’t dead as a movement, it’s dead as a term that can be used to excite...”
– Open Is Dead. | John Geraci’s Blog
Boy is this ever true — open as a term is really tough to define and get people behind (says the “Open Cities Evangelist” at OpenPlans, and the mng dir at Civic Commons, where we build Open Platforms…)
San Francisco guide to New York neighborhoods |... →
Don’t know if I agree with all of these, but it’s a cute attempt to map neighborhoods 1:1. (thx parker!)
The Organization Kid - Magazine - The Atlantic →
A generational piece from 2000 by David Brooks - such a contrast to the NYMag piece that just came out.
“I first met Dean not long after Tryscha and I hooked up. I had just gotten over...”
– On The Bro’d - “On the Road” written bro-style. (thx macaroniart)
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“Instead I’ll do what I can to keep aspiring to Steve’s level of passion for...”
– stevenf.com: Steve Jobs
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith....”
– Steve Jobs
September 2011
21 posts
“I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates...”
– Mindy Kaling: : The New Yorker
“New York is a very crowded place. The way people deal with it is to create their...”
– Cultural Faux Pas: What are some cultural faux pas in New York? - Quora
10 things to remember about Netflix while... →
“The poetics of shopping spaces sing out a song of eternally replenished...”
– Bare Market - NYTimes.com
Watchkennycity:
“Yes, it’s made some awful business decisions, but the New York Times has been savvy when it comes to technology development, maintaining a research lab and corps of programmers who, to take one example, rushed out an app to ensure the Times was on stage at the iPad unveiling. Now the company’s hackers want to reinvent how you eat breakfast.” - Gawker
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“TO SEE how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next...”
– The books business: Great digital expectations | The Economist
Karl Lagerfeld Opens Up: style file →
“Schopenhauer…said, whenever you buy a book, you should try to buy the time to read it. Time is not for sale. That’s why I have a problem.”