February 2010
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January 2010
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“On Friday, President Obama appeared before House Republicans during a historic...”
– Seth Meyers, Weekend Update (via inothernews) (via savingpaper) (via apsies) (via think4yourself) (via ericmortensen)
“We had lost 650,000 jobs in December [2008] - I’m assuming your’e not faulting...”
– President Obama | TPMDC
I keep asking myself why the Republicans would have agreed to let Obama smack down their nonsense for 90 minutes on live television. And I keep coming to the same conclusion. They’ve started to believe their own bullshit. These people weren’t at all prepared for Obama to...
Keep on hatin' haters
justinday:
You’ll all be lining up for one of these and singing its praises by summer.
I think it’s brilliant. Though I never buy a 1st gen anything from Apple.
Kindle DX: $489. iPad: $499.
Thing-a-day 2010 →
Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog.
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“I set up a meeting with Daft Punk. We met for pancakes at the 101 Coffee Shop in...”
– TRON Legacy Director Joseph Kosinski (full interview)
Good riddance to tumblarity
justinday:
Notice that Tumblr is much more substance and much less pretty pictures and auto-meme-reblogs lately? I hope tumblarity never comes back.
This.
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Brian Eno on the naming of things →
austinkleon:
“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t….My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to, not because I wanted a job as a musician. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing...
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Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets →
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victrolacola:
…The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. (Andreas Bick)
Really fascinating to hear dispersion. I only deal with it in optical environments, so I’m used to seeing its effect on color, time, focusing, etc.
A version of Tetris where instead of the blocks... →
(via clintisiceman)
I scored 52 lines. And this is now officially my favorite version of Tetris of all time.
Conan's official statement: "I cannot participate... →
girlafraid:
forwhenifeellikesharing:
You go, gurl!
