February 2012
2 posts
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been....”
– Isaac Asimov
QOTD: Cult of Ignorance | The Big Picture
January 2012
6 posts
“Friends are forged in a great furnace, they are solid and light as titanium,...”
– Learning To Fly (Or, “Trying To Date Again After Divorce”) | BlogHer
““That was my job, I was 18 or 19 years old.”
Not a bad gig at that...”
– Fincher on His Role on Return of the Jedi « Binary Bonsai
“In particular, nothing is unstable. Nothing can create something all the time...”
– Lawrence Krauss On ‘A Universe From Nothing’ : NPR
“In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has...”
– The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
1 post
“You’ve made this switch with every jar you’ve ever opened. Not only...”
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
October 2011
6 posts
“I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves...”
– xkcd: Alternative Literature
“So here we have yet again one of the most consequential acts a government can...”
– The United States’ killing of an American boy in Yemen. The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son - Salon.com
“Steve used to say to me, and he used to say this a lot, “Hey Jony,...”
– Here’s a dopey idea - amix.dk
“So this young upstart whippersnapper comes along and decides to try to specify a...”
– Dennis Ritchie « Sutter’s Mill
“It was on a NeXt machine that the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee...”
– Steve Jobs « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
“Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor lived closer in time to modern relatives such as...”
– Randall Munroe
August 2011
1 post
“Twelve members of Congress will soon take on the crucial job of rearranging our...”
– Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes.com
June 2011
3 posts
“He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the...”
– Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
May 2011
2 posts
April 2011
1 post
“It is unclear why Yahoo! executives would devalue a service before they were...”
– Price of fame: Stick a pin in it | The Economist
March 2011
2 posts
Best YouTube Comment Ever
The following quote is the first comment I ever upvoted at YouTube:
Hello, gamers. Look at your house, now back to mine, now back at your house, now back to mine. Sadly, it isn’t yours, but if you stopped playing overrated FPS’ and switched to Minecraft, it could look like mine.
Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a mine that you built with your own hands!
...
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
3 posts
“I guess that’s what this movie is really about. About facing the truth,...”
– Francis Ford Coppola to Marlon Brando
Letters of Note: We will never get past Viet Nam if we sweep it under the carpet
December 2010
7 posts
“If crimes have been committed in connection with the WikiLeaks experience, let...”
– WikiLeaks Thoughts - Sunlight Foundation (via adactio)
“Attention is the mind’s currency. Once we’ve spent it, we can’t buy it back.”
– Time to let go of social clutter. | Leigh Reyes. My Life As a Verb.
“Every application grows until it has e-mail. Every Web site grows until it has...”
– louisgray.com: Bret Taylor on FriendFeed’s Road to Monetization, Early Surprises
“more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not...”
– Seth’s Blog: The inevitable decline due to clutter
“They found that playing video games led to markedly lower sleep quality than...”
– Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com
November 2010
4 posts
“Doing your own thing does not equal thinking your own thing. The longer it stays...”
– Do your own thing. | Leigh Reyes. My Life As a Verb.
“the bottom line is marriage is hard. It’s really fuckin’ hard. It’s just two...”
– The Kids Are All Right « That’s How The Light Gets In
“Github/Launchpad are today’s Burgess Shale. We are in the equivalent of a...”
– krow at livejournal
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
3 posts
August 2010
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
“George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill: ‘I am enclosing two tickets to the...”
– the new shelton wet/dry (via heilemann)