December 2010
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and...”
– James Baldwin (via thegang)
Is anyone else on Diaspora?
Add me if you are, I’m erick@joindiaspora.com. Or let me know if you’d like an invite (I only have a couple left though, email is on my site).
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– This is a damn good read. (via nikkiwiley)
How To Live in New York City →
ilouvreyou:
Move here when you’re 18 or 22, maybe even 24. Come from somewhere else-the north, south, west, Xanadu- and come to realize that everyone living in New York is a transplant. Even the ones who grew up on the Upper East Side end up moving into a place downtown, which, as you’ll soon discover, is like moving to a different city.
Discover the cruel and bizarre world of New York City...
The 30 Most Important Cats Of 2010 →
getoffmyinternets:
This is the most important thing you will read all day.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”
– Albert Einstein (via poortaste)
android-notifier →
onethingwell:
This project sends notifications to a desktop computer when certain events happen on an Android device, such as the phone ringing, an SMS being received, or the battery running low.
Is there an iOS equivalent?
Anyone know?
“Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel....”
– The Fountainhead Ayn Rand (via buckmacabre)
Still need to read this.
“Leadership is about doing the possible, not sitting around and waiting for the...”
– Michael Bloomberg (via davemorin)
NPR: Neil Armstrong Talks About The First Moon... →
npr:
Well, this doesn’t happen every day.
In a recent post, I talked about Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s walk across the lunar surface back in 1969 and wondered, how come they walked such a modest distance? Less than a hundred yards from their lander?
And Neil Armstrong wrote in to say,…
What's wrong with OpenID? →
marco:
The short answer is that OpenID is the worst possible “solution” I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don’t really have. That’s what’s “wrong” with it.
(via Alex Payne)
“Over two-thirds of all business communication relies on only two metaphors—war...”
– Remixing Your Metaphors « GameChangers (via ethanb)
“If the best cathedral builder who ever lived was born now, instead of 1,000...”
– The Moral Dimension of Technology (via azspot)
Interesting to think about. Also relates to how companies like YouTube, Groupon, Facebook probably wouldn’t have succeeded only two years earlier than they did because the bandwidth, social graph, and understanding wasn’t there. :/
Watchthingsthatinspireandamuse:
Derezzed - Daft Punk
pretty excited for this.
“I am absolutely sure that millions of people in one way or another are telling...”
– Bernie Sanders, 5:11 EST today. Hour 6.75. (via liberalsarecool)
