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I’ve been visiting The Hype Machine for some time now so I thought I would give it the blog-love it deserves. Full of music culled from the plethora of music lovin’ blogs on the inter-tubes, sites like The Hype Machine: now this is what the internet is for.
—17 May 2010 ∞ | View Comments
A short film – called Cannonball – by “California is a Place” on how skaters are taking advantage of all of the forgotten, dilapidated pools in the backyards of foreclosed homes in Fresno. Some of the narrators’ comments are a little insensitive, some are right on the mark. All of them hurt. Interesting, though, that near the end of the video (and not to give anything away) that it seems “the dream” still lives, even in these guys who see the destruction it can wreak every day they skate one of these pools.
Part of the subject of the film and all of subjects in the film remind me of Dogtown and Z-Boys.
It would be interesting to look at correlative data between the number of empty pools and the current state of the economy. Maybe we could call it “The Empty Pool Index”, cull the data from fresh Google maps satellite images and run some numbers. If only I was better with statistics. (via Daring Fireball)
—17 May 2010 ∞ | View Comments
he beautiful drop cap you see to your left is brought to you by Jessica Hische and her generous creativity epitomized in her site Daily Drop Cap. Thanks, Jessica!
From the description on her site:
Daily Drop Cap is a project I started in September of 2009 in which I illustrate a decorative letter every day (or at least every work day). The project will continue for approximately twelve alphabets and are available for non-commercial use as drop caps on your personal blog. Please visit dailydropcap.com to see the full project.
—14 May 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Ouch. Headed for an appeal? I’m not sure:
In a statement, the F.C.C. said it remained “firmly committed to promoting an open Internet.” While the court decision invalidated its current approach to that goal, the agency said, “the Court in no way disagreed with the importance of providing a free and open Internet, nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end.”
…plus…
The decision could reinvigorate dormant efforts in Congress to pass a federal law specifically governing net neutrality, a principle generally supported by the Obama administration.
There’s hope yet.
—6 April 2010 ∞ | View Comments
As quoted by John Gruber and on the subject of the iPad:
Anyone who believes this thing is a game changer is a tool.
—4 April 2010 ∞ | View Comments
…is a site dedicated to creating an infographic per episode of that NPR radio standard, This American Life. via Kottke
—2 April 2010 ∞ | View Comments
A little late to the party – this first of many posts is from all the way back in 2007…ancient! – but no matter: this is classic stuff. Serious Eats (the food blogging empire) has a collection of posts all about how the many and varied, down-home style, high-calorie recipes from the infamously warm and comforting Paula Deen are, in actuality, all part of a plot to end our lives. Warmly, of course. Maybe that soft-focus glow should have tipped us off to her angel-of-death status from the start.
—2 April 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Fried goat cheese. Need I say more? (from Serious Eats)
—1 April 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Dave Pell:
The digital age gives a new (and almost opposite) meaning to having a photographic memory. The experience of the moment has become the experience of the photo.
Another stellar post at Tweetage Wasteland.
—30 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
A little precious. Clever, though.
—25 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Mark McLaughlin: Audiences Don’t Pay for Content
The entire business model of text-based media production and distribution has been gutted and people that have been in the business for years are trying (some say in vain) to salvage as much of the old model as possible. In the process, they’re attempting to create new models that justify their existence.
Think Don Quixote.
I am enthralled by the current state of the media.
—25 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
It’s a Milgram redux in France
Speaking of information that should be so ingrained in our collective wisdom that it should be mundane, people in France who were told they were filming a game show allowed themselves to deliver a lethal dose of electricity to a man for giving wrong answers to questions. It was all fake. But they didn’t know that.
This isn’t new material but is, in fact, simply a modern reproduction of an experiment done in the 60s by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgrim that produced the same results.
—25 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Your SOLUTION is Not My PROBLEM
An uglier blog, I have not laid eyes on in quite some time but the advice seems sound…for more than just elevator pitches to VCs.
—25 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Healthcare Spending and Life Expectancy
As if any of this needs to be stated again. And yet, it does. Over and over and over, in fact. Until we get it. All of us.
Everybody knows (or should know by now) that the U.S. spends more on health care than any other country but somehow manages to get far worse results. It’s a nugget of data that’s been passed around do much that it almost seems mundane. But there’s nothing like a graph to reinvigorate data made mundane by repitition.
—25 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
Q. & A. With Jeremy Stoppelman, C.E.O. of Yelp (NYTimes)
Wherin Mr. Stoppelman responds to the current brou-ha-ha over his company and the legal actions that are being taken against it.
Until proven otherwise, I’m still of the opinion that the rancor aimed at Yelp by the small business community is more about a lack of understanding and an unwillingness to accept the quickly changing consumer/business relationship spurred on by social media than it is evidence of any type of shady business practices on Yelp’s part.
—25 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
The impossible project test film
Heather Champ, of Flickr, was one of forty advance testers of The Impossible Project’s new Polaroid instant film.
—23 March 2010 ∞ | View Comments
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