Pitchfork: Trent Reznor and Wife Mariqueen Maandig Are How to Destroy Angels →
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Oh man I hope this shoots up the value of my first edition Coil LP.
April 2010
“The only true gripe I have with the iPad is the amount of attention I’ve received over it. I’ve had to show it off to at least thirty people already, and every time I pull it out in public, people shift closer to try to see and stare at it. As I mentioned on Twitter, I’d like a case that disguises the iPad as a normal MacBook Pro. Such is the price I pay for being an early adopter.”
—Welcome to the Future | John Rust
So true. The first couple of days were great, though. Lots of cute girls wanting to check out my iPad.
(via mikehudack)Totally. I’ve noticed the ugly black rubber case that Apple sells helps a lot, though.
“Peter Hook and friends perform the entire UNKNOWN PLEASURES album live track by track in memory of the 30th anniversary of the death of Joy Divisions Ian Curtis.”
—Unknown Pleasures @ FAC251 - The Factory in Manchester
Anyone wanna go to this?
“A: Franks”
—WikiAnswers - The only barbarian group to create a lasting state was the
LIES!
“The Never Call: There are some people who love to text so much that the phone part of their cell phone has become completely obsolete. They’re like Tobias Funke the never-nude from Arrested Development, except instead of refusing to take off the last bit of clothing for a completely irrational reason, they are scared of a wonderful and time-honored mode of communication.”
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The Nine Types of Text Messaging Monsters - Texting - Gawker
oh that is me. to a tee.
(via madeleinepascal)I am one of those people. But let me explain something to you. The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us.
“If there isn’t a girl dancing within two people of you, you are doing something wrong.”
—The xx & Hot Chip played Terminal 5 (a “self-proclaimed hipster” writes a letter to the fans)
“Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.”
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Walter White, Breaking Bad
Walter is my kind of guy.
(via evangotlib)Math.
(via mikehudack) Ah but Math is the essense of negotiation. All negotiation theory, game theory and the like has math at its root. Math is the foundation for negotiation. And at the negotiation table math is at its most fungible. In a negotiation math becomes a weapon to be deployed, not an insurmountable fact. 2+2 will always equal 4 on paper. But a great negotiator can fix the game so 2+1 equals 4 in his/her favor. (via evangotlib)Death. Love. The boiling point of water. Pi. Spam. Whether you’re pregnant or not. Wait. Why am I doing this. This is dumb.
Too Much Nick: My amateur opinion of the Gizmodo computer seizure →
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One thing I keep thinking about - does Gawker claim ownership? Have they ever? Couldn’t they claim they paid $5k to look at something, took possession of it, and are happy to return it, and indeed have made reasonable efforts to do so by publishing the story and letting apple know they had it? Slim chances, I suppose, but… not totally out there. I do think it’s important to make a distinction between paying and buying/So police seized the computers of Jason Chen, the Gizmodo employee who analyzed and wrote about a leaked model of the iPhone 4G that Gizmodo bought from an anonymous source, who found it in a bar.
Gizmodo wouldn’t have paid $5000 for the leaked iPhone 4G if the original finder had no idea it…
“Roush Fenway Racing is working with New York-based digital agency The Barbarian Group to overhaul its online strategy and incorporate more of a sales and marketing structure into its official website to attract more sponsors.
“We’ve got to get the site to communicate Roush Fenway as an entertainment and marketing entity, not just a race team,” said Benjamin Palmer, CEO and co-founder of The Barbarian Group. “A lot of people might not realize that Roush Fenway puts together these very integrated, customized marketing programs for their clients and we’ve got to find ways to tell that story.”
Telling that story will begin with a redesigned website later this year that will put the NASCAR team’s business side front and center. The team is spending close to $500,000 in startup costs to begin the relationship with Barbarian and convert a space in the race shop into a video studio, and five executives have been reassigned to focus on the relaunch, Roush Fenway President Geoff Smith said. The budgets dedicated to online efforts for most NASCAR teams are in the middle to high five figures.
” —Roush Fenway retools site to sell
Love to see that we’re makin’ good progress with Roush Fenway, after having met them over a year ago at Webby Connect! Exciting!
Sony to stop manufacturing Floppy discs after 30 years →
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Shit I better stock up.What the hell is a floppy disk?!!?!?!?
The Most Influential Women in Technology | Fast Company →
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Great list. Always fascinating to me that Allison Johnson of Apple and formerly of HP never appears on these lists, but i suppose that’s because she’s a “marketer.”
Brunch Sucks - brunch - Gawker →
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God, I hate Brunch. This doesn’t even begin to cover the evilness of brunch. What a complete waste of time. Go out all night and drink. YES. Good time. But then spend the whole next day drinking? NO. GET SOMETHING DONE ON YOUR SATURDAY. Never mind that whole spending an hour wandering around the LES with 6 other people trying to find a restaurant to take you, and still waiting for that one couple that never ever manages to show up even within an hour of being on time. Ugh. Fuck it. Grab a bagel and get something done with your saturday.
Clever? →
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The only thing that would be amazing about this is if they got the client to pay for it, and pay for it explicitly knowing it was a ChatRoulette project, under a separate contract, not as part of a retainer. if they pulled that off, I’ll give ‘em a “wow.”First the media covered it, then Ben Folds used it in his concerts and now apparently a German agency is using Chatroulette to advertise Harley Davidson by just leaving a sign in front of a webcam that reads “Sorry, I’m on the Road” with a Harley logo. I think my reaction is “meh,” but I’m not sure. (I guess I’m so ambivalent about it that I can’t decide if I’m ambivalent or not.)
JSTN: After dozens of times going through airport security all over the... →
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After dozens of times going through airport security all over the world with 120 film and having it hand-checked without issue, the TSA in Bloomington, IL felt it necessary to break the seal on every single roll and unwrap them for swabbing under bright light (against my bitter protest.) It made…
Today, in Mexico, I walked through security without removing my belt or my shoes, or my laptop or my liquids from my bag. Miraculously, the plane did not explode. The TSA is so ridiculous.
