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Drone Life on Flickr.
WSJ: Yahoo’s board approves $1.1 billion all-cash Tumblr acquisition
That is a pretty imaginative screenshot.
British band Lush’s first full-length album, Spooky (4AD, January, 1992) is a relic of a past which no longer exists, but which incessantly reminds you that it once did. You hear its reverberations in predecessors like Black Tambourine and in successors like Wild Nothing. What ties them all together is a dialogue, a certain way of looking at the world, which has everything to do with the tone, the sound, the feel, and often nothing to do with actual meaning. The meaning is conveyed in the delivery.
Been listening to this a lot again lately. Been thinking back to the Spooky tour, and Lush’s first show ever in the US, at Nightstage. I used to be upset about the direction Lush took later, with Ladykiller, et al, but now I really like it. They could see further than I.
Pascal suggested that one ought to believe in God because if God exists, it will have been the correct choice, while if God turns out to not exist, little harm will have been done by holding a false metaphysical belief. Does optimism really affect outcomes? The best bet is to believe that the answer is “Yes.” I suppose the vulgar construction “Kirk’s Wager” is a workable moniker for it.
—U MAD??? Evgeny Morozov, The Internet, And The Failure Of Invective | The Awl
July 15, 1956 — May 18, 1980
I managed over 12,000 people at Groupon, most under the age of 25. One thing that surprised me was that many would arrive at orientation with minimal understanding of basic business wisdom. ”Haven’t you read any business books? Good to Great? Winning? The One Minute Manager?” I’d ask. ”Business books? Not really our thing,” was the typical response. I came to realize that there was a real need to present business wisdom in a format that is more accessible to the younger generation.
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For Real, Ex-Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is Releasing An Album Of Motivational Music | TechCrunch
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
To the left of Nick Cave’s left foot, at the lip of the stage, looking up in reverent, fevered wonder, right cheekbone partially obscured by a power supply: it’s John Darnielle, 16 years old, loving his life for at least the next 35 minutes and probably until at least 2 a.m.
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Mr. Obama also expresses exasperation. In private, he has talked longingly of “going Bulworth,” a reference to a little-remembered 1998 Warren Beatty movie about a senator who risked it all to say what he really thought.
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“going Bulworth”
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DO IT.
DO IT.
DO IT.
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SERIOUSLY. God. Please. PLEASE.
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“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
Come on! It’s been no one has gone before since 1987!
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The Tumblr app for Glass allows you to receive updates from your Tumblr dashboard, and you can adjust the frequency with which you receive those. It also lets you post all kinds of content, including text, images and video.
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Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, CNN And Evernote Apps Coming To Google Glass Today | TechCrunch
Beware of Benedict Cubercats distracting you while driving.
Bentley Bear.
A Long Poem of Magic
The first time I used a remote control
The first time I put on a walkman on and walked down the street
The first time I recorded a sound on my mac and played it back
The first time I played a synthesizer
The first time I used a cordless phone
The first time I tapped a BASIC program out of A+ magazine into my Apple II
The first time I dialed into a BBS
The first time I saw an Osborne 1 suitcase computer
The first time I flew a remote controlled plane, or sailed an RC ship
The first time I programmed a VCR
The first time I played an NES
The first time I used a sequencer
The first time I bought a CD
The first time I saw the Apple //’s amazing full color HGR2 graphics.
The first time I programmed turtle graphics to make something beautiful
The first time I wrote a PASCAL program
The first time I saw a font on a Mac
The first time I saw a camcorder
The first time I saw Sim City
The first time I used Photoshop
The first time I chatted with a stranger on the internet, a man in Finland
The first time I saw a piece of film come out of an imagesetter, from a Mac
The first time I used Quark
The first time I saw a Powerbook
The first time I saw the actual faders move on a mixing board
The first time I saw the cover of Wired magazine
The first time I used a color laser printer
The first time I saw a Heidelberg digital press print something without film
The first time I bought a cell phone
The first time I saw Steve Jobs walk on stage and show the world the iMac
The first time I saw my computer play four simultaneous tracks of audio
The first time I saw a digital camera
The first time I saw an autotune filter
The first time I saw the world wide web
The first time I paid for something with my ATM card
The first time I saw a video on the internet
The first time I saw Napster
The first time I used a computer on a porch with Wi-Fi
The first time I wrote a song on a computer
The first time I got something delivered to my house from Kozmo.com
The first time I used a remote car starter
The first time I bought something on eBay I had been looking for for ten years
The first time I used GPS
The first time I ripped a CD
The first time I saw a TiVo
The first time I travelled with an MP3 player and rocked out in the Sahara
The first time I IM’d someone from my phone, a T-Mobile Sidekick
The first time I saw the amazing AJAX that was Google Maps
The first time I played music on my phone
The first time I IM’d someone a file
The first time I saw Livejournal
The first time I saw an iPod
The first time I used Zipcar
The first time I met someone in real life that I only knew on the internet
The first time I blogged asking a favor and a kind stranger came to deliver
The first time I watched a Roomba clean a floor
The first time I saw Minority Report
The first time I used Dodgeball
The first time I saw Flickr
The first time I logged into Facebook
The first time I learned about Ruby on Rails
The first time I played an Xbox game with some kids across the planet. I lost.
The first time I downloaded a movie
The first time I checked in on Foursquare and people magically show up
The first time I connected my computer to the 3G network
The first time I saw Daft Punk
The first time I logged onto the internet on an airplane
The first time I bought a book on the Kindle
The first time I videochatted with my girlfriend
The first time I blogged something that a “real news publication” picked up
The first time I heard about AWS
The first time I saw a Tesla roadster
The first time I saw an iPad mini
The first time I took a picture of a check to deposit it in my account
Magic.
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face,” he writes in the book’s prelude: “At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 14,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people. Where did all those jobs disappear? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?
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Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class - Salon.com
I like Jaron Lanier a lot, but this illustration as some sort of evidence of the internet hollowing out the middle class is, forgive me for saying so, idiotic. A child could figure out where those jobs went.
1) Instagram SHOWS the photos. We have to include all of the people who work on the cloud that supports that.
2) Kodak made cameras and film. Cameras are still being made - even moreso. At the very least, we should include the current #1 camera maker’s employees. At this point, that’s apple. Fifty thousand employees. Pro rate it to only the apple devices that have cameras, ignoring their mac business. 30,000 employees.
3) The film business still exists. It was just lost to Fujichrome, who still makes film and has over 30,000 employees. This has nothing to do with the web, but rather something called “Globalization.”
The internet didn’t kill a single job in photography. There are more cameras now than ever. There are still tens of thousands of people making film.
Take the market cap of JUST these three companies - facebook, apple, fujifilm, and we’re looking at $500 billion market cap, and nearly 90,000 employees.
Think that’s unfair? Canon has nearly 200,000 employees. Nikon has 24,000. 10,000 more than Kodak. Shit, ZEISS has 24,000 employees.
Never mind every single camera in an android phone.
Those jobs went overseas, and they went to computer companies, Mr. Lanier. They still exist. The internet didn’t kill a single one of them.
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