April 2011
March 2011
What Matters: Get ready for a new economic era →
Paul Saffo:
The mortgage-fueled market slide is leading the United States into much more than a recession—it is also ushering in a new economy. The consumer economy that was born in the 1950s is lurching to an end, and a new “creator economy” is emerging. This shift represents the third economic turning in just over a century. A look back at its antecedents reveals much about what to expect.
“I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My...”
– This is the first believed use of “OMG” - it’s from a 1917 letter by British Admiral John “Jacky” Fisher. And to think, it took till this year to add OMG (as well as LOL and FYI and “muffin top”) to the Oxford English Dictionary. (via msnbc)
I’d like to know the first usage of OMGWTFBBQ,...
Xperia X10 to get Android 2.3 this summer, makes... →
“Who’s in charge of Sony Ericsson today and what did they do with the old crew? Reversing a previous statement saying there’ll be no Android updates for its Xperia X10 family beyond Eclair, SE has just announced that it’ll bring Gingerbread to the X10 at the end of Q2 / start of Q3 this year.”
My friend Drew, via Reader:
As a consumer I see device lifecycle support...
Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage' :... →
Oh, wow. What a sad, sad story.
My brain provided the soundtrack, courtesy of Wolf Parade. If you actually follow my quixotic interests via these posts, you’ll already know I’m on another Soviet kick, reading “Bloodlands” very slowly because it’s horrific.
I’m convinced, had I been an early Soviet, my little brain would have given up sanity early on.
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“Like tools, knots are useful and increase our power over nature; but unlike...”
– The Ruricolist: Knots
TODAYMoms - Little girl loved: One father's open... →
That’s a hell of a letter. Well done, sir. This story’s unsettled the back corners of my mind since reading it as it broke. The NYT’s public editor nails some of the reasons.
david-noel:
TV On The Radio | Heroes (David...
“Double Irish Arrangement”
– A financial term, along with the Dutch Sandwich, that will be discussed at great detail on today’s show, which is about how US companies save billions of dollars by funneling their money into off-shore tax havens. (via nprfreshair)
“Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
– From my long-time favorite, On Boxing, by Joyce Carol Oates (shared via my Kindle page).
Recently I exchanged direct messages with a fellow Seattleite, @name_inspector. He joined my old boxing gym and I happened to catch the mention amongst his other (excellent) posts to Twitter around business...
“The 1,000’mile journey back to the Gold Coast was a nightmarish one for...”
– My favorite bit from If a Pirate I Must Be…: The True Story of Black Bart, King of the Caribbean Pirates, which was a gift from my pal Katy (as noted on my Kindle shared-stuff page).
“Sometime in the nineteenth century it became possible for masses of...”
– The Ruricolist: Animals
Sarah Seltzer: It's Jane's House, We Just Live in... →
ladyjournos:
Jane Eyre is the foremother of a literary tradition in which gothic interiors and sinister doubles comment on the female experience.
Bitch || #42 (Winter 2008)
Equals Drummond » Connect.Me →
After internal testing of the signup process we just wanted to do a little bit of live external user testing of the signup before SXSW. So my co-founder Joe Johnston took off the password protection on the page and before going to bed last night we asked a few family and friends to test it.
We woke up this morning to over 10,000 users. And that grew to 20K in a few hours.
But that’s not the...
HiLobrow: NoBrowmanship →
ascendingcoherence:
If an opponent has managed to get inside your home and all other gambits have failed, Potter suggests training your child to walk in, look at the man, appear taken aback say something worriedly like, “Mummy, I don’t like that man.” The thinking is that children’s snap judgment is unerring, and that they can spot moral failings like dogs can spot ghosts. If you find...
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin →
Is truth nothing more than a convention of power, or can truthful historical accounts resist the gravity of politics? Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sought to master history itself. The Soviet Union was a Marxist state, whose leaders proclaimed themselves to be scientists of history. National Socialism was an apocalyptic vision of total transformation, to be realized by men who believed that...
10+ years
Having lived in my house more than a decade now, I have instincts for its physics. Sounds, weight, spaces, shaking, echoes, lights. Case in point, I effortlessly read the play of headlights across the front of the house, facing the street and highway on-ramp beyond.
Tonight—mid-book—the lights played the wrong way on the window frames and ceiling. They told me the thoughtlessly loud...
“It is a pleasure to be sorted into a particular generation because...”
– The Ruricolist: Generations
