March 2010
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“The iPad isn’t about saving newspapers. It’s about inventing new ways of telling...”
– Fake Steve Jobs and a dozen of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet in Wired Magazine
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Frank Chimero On Paradoxes
I think an increased tolerance for paradox is a crucial requirement for a person to be able to cope with the world today. Our access to information has created more paradoxes. We’ve made pieces of conflicting information more accessible than any other point in time. Unfortunately, we’ve mistaken cynicism as the tool we need to cope with this conflict of information.
—Frank Chimero
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“I was put on earth to restore a sense of childlike wonder to people’s empty,...”
– Fake Steve Jobs and a dozen of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet in Wired Magazine
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“never underestimate an exponential.”
– Carl Sagan quoted by Scott Aaronson in Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
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“As a nation we are less hungry than we once were”
– Sachio Semmoto, founder and CEO of the mobile telecom firm emobile
Start-up, stop? ( EURObiZ Japan)
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“I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love...”
– Dave Eggers
in his novel What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
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“the first time in history that gefilte fish had been placed on White House...”
– Obama’s White House Informally Celebrates Seder
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“intelligence is replacing intuition”
– Ambuj Goyal quoted in Analytics is the Thing, Says IBM
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“as the Reporter enters the Study Area, there may be heard: a long silence, an...”
– Tent City USA
“the world’s young are becoming concentrated in those countries least...”
– The New Population Bomb
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Hipsters on food stamps →
They’re young, they’re broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that?
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“Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will...”
– Magnus Carlsen on his chess career
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“We like lists because we don’t want to die.”
– Interview with Umberto Eco (via jackcheng)
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WatchMan vs Magnet (illustration and animation; and drawing and imagining.)
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“The old woman looks up from her brush pile. “My husband has to redo that...”
– Joel Johnson Raiding Eternity<
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“the Pentagon? They could solve this in a second. The U.S. can do anything.”
– Rafael Alegria, a Honduran resistance leader,
quoted by William Finnegan in The New Yorker
“POTUS’ inflection and ad-libbing suggested that of an experienced...”
– All Aboard Obama’s Polar Express
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Text Patterns: the incomprehending tweeters →
she would have given a talk that did not make a sequential argument but just strung together sound-bites, because the audience couldn’t have grasped anything other than disconnected aphoristic statements. In other words, she would have given a talk made of tweets, because that’s all that her tweeting audience could possibly have received.
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“John Holdren, the top White House science adviser, estimates that solving...”
– Jared Diamond: Will Big Business Save the Earth?
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“Even though life is disgusting sometimes, I’ll get up again.”
– Carl Berner, New York City’s oldest man and a former toolmaker, toymaker, factory owner, and civic activist at 108 years old. [via] (via bobulate)
“Offline is apparently no longer the default world.”
– Big City - Beyond Twitter - An App That Lets You Truly See City - NYTimes.com
Watchchat roulette
“I wanted to learn the guitar because I loved the Beatles. And I ended up...”
– Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele
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“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– why the lucky stiff (via inky)
“There’s a part of me that can never shake the indignation that [indie] once was...”
– Slim Moon quoted in ‘Is Indie Dead’
“it’s offered up as a different kind of different, something simple and honest...”
– Is Indie Dead?
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“I have been struck by a creeping and dispirited sameness, a sense that life is...”
– Jonathan Rowe: The Second Death Of Great American Cities (And How The Commons Can Help Bring Them Back)
WatchMary-Louise Parker reads from Alice in Wonderland
“We’re all endowed with curiosity, but a lot of us, for very good reasons,...”
– Is Thinking Back in Fashion? - National - The Atlantic
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“These embassies are the artefacts of fear.”
– The Mega-Bunker of Baghdad in Vanity Fair
“its people are too complacent, too reasonable, and too confused.”
– You Say You Want a Revolution by Chuck Klosterman in Esquire
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WatchColosseo Letterpress Poster: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type
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“This is the Sicilian in Sinatra; he permits his friends, if they wish to remain...”
– Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
