January 2012
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Flight plan
Me: i looked around
Me: checked KAYAK, Hipmunk, and even Bing
Me: other than China Eastern (via Shanghai, and we don't have a Chinese visa), Cathay Pacific is still the cheapest
Mom: good, Cathay's food is better
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December 2011
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U.S. Finishes A ‘Strong Second’ In Iraq War →
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The 25 Least Influential People Alive →
Drew Magary for GQ (December 2011):
15. Léo Apotheker:
Quick, everyone! Who’s the exact opposite of Steve Jobs? It’s gotta be the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a company whose new tablet computer was so shitty that it was considering getting out of making PCs entirely. HP’s TouchPad was just like the iPad, if the iPad has been designed to obliterate entire sectors of the digital economy. Two...
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November 2011
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My Stellar faves →
Lately, I’ve been spending more time on my Stellar and Twitter accounts than on Tumblr. Both services offer more frictionless content consumption than Tumblr, and I don’t have too much time these days to write anything insightful anyway.
Now if Stellar adds support for Tumblr likes, it would truly be a good overview of my favorite things from around the Internet.
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Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a... →
David Foster Wallace’s intensely magniloquent and eccentric piece on his week-long luxury cruise “vacation” is pure brilliance. Every one of his quirky narrative detours and rambling footnotes—of which there are many—is absolutely wonderful, so I had little trouble following along with his supposition that the indulgent pampering and hands-off, blissed-out environment afforded by ultra-luxury...
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Drinkify →
Created for Music Hack Day Boston 2011, Drinkify uses the Last.fm and The Echo Nest APIs to concoct sonically appropriate cocktails to accompany the music you’re listening to.
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A Bright Wall in a Dark Room’s review of... →
Guys, I wrote over two thousand words on why I thought Cloverfield was one of my favorite films of 2008 and I still felt I wasn’t expressing my arguments persuasively enough. Liz Miller was able to articulate all of that—and more—in half the length.
I’d argue that Cloverfield is the first truly modern horror film, one that captures how our relationship with not just the genre, but the technology...
October 2011
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In Praise of Bad Steve →
D.B. Grady:
When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to Steve Jobs for his approval. Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it. It was too big.
The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was simply impossible to make it any smaller. Jobs...
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“Steve didn’t underestimate the future; he could see it, and, more importantly,...”
– Rands In Repose: You Are Underestimating the Future
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Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot →
John Gruber:
After the WWDC keynote four months ago, I saw Steve, up close.
He looked old. Not old in a way that could be measured in years or even decades, but impossibly old. Not tired, but weary; not ill or unwell, but rather, somehow, ancient. But not his eyes. His eyes were young and bright, their weapons-grade intensity intact. His sweater was well-worn, his jeans frayed at the cuffs.
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“Steve was among the greatest of American innovators—brave enough to think...”
– President Obama
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Popular pickup lines used by serial killers →
I told you.
If I said you had a beautiful body would you stop screaming?
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You look at me like you’ve never seen a... →
If I could just get Tumblr to automatically post everything published on McSweeney’s to my blog; it would save me so much time.
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...”
– Neil Gaiman
September 2011
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“Trickle-down Economics” →
Interesting article on the greatest joke the wealthy ever told the middle class:
Look back over the last hundred years and you’ll see the pattern. During periods when the very rich took home a much smaller proportion of total income — as in the Great Prosperity between 1947 and 1977 — the nation as a whole grew faster and median wages surged. We created a virtuous cycle in which an ever growing...
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Keygen Jukebox →
Chiptune music from warez serial key generators.
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August 2011
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“Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough Concessions By Both Democrats And...”
– The Onion
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July 2011
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“For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees.”
– Another quote from the same article:
It’s not so much that I despised Windows PCs, but that it felt like Microsoft and the PC makers despised them, like they all have no respect for their own platform.
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“The story goes that ESPN president George Bodenheimer attended the first Disney...”
– Excerpt from Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
Gruber suspects it’s the much maligned Mobile ESPN Samsung ACE.
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“They say money can’t buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face. Ear to...”
– Boiler Room