Why do I like Karl Lagerfeld? Because he's always impatient. And funny.
(via HuffPo)
Monday, January 30, 2012
Ferriss Bueller's Superbowl Commercial
OK, I admit I squealed with glee when I saw the teaser for this.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Links for Later 1-27-12
- Shannon Larratt's recommendation for Spoonflower custom printed fabric
- How To Build a TARDIS
- Trying to fix Pakistan's schools
- StatSilk World Bank lets you do geographic comparisons of global macroeconomic indicators
- Typography in Illustrator by Smashing Mag
- New, hi-rez images of the Earth from satellite
- Freud in the Adirondacks
- Great one-handed catch by a ballboy at the Australian Open
- Elsevier's economic case is hollow
- Blade Runner Blues cover
- Morgellon's disease update
- Effects of a media diet
- How right-handed sugars emerged from left-handed amino acids in the early organic environment
- Fans willen Edwin Bouwhuis terug
- Chris Dodd and MPAA in trouble over SOPA/PIPA
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Stop SOPA/PIPA
If you can read this, the Internet isn't dead yet. It's under immediate threat from a pair of bills currently working their way through Congress. Both SOPA, the House version, and PIPA, the Senate version, were bills written by Big Entertainment under the cover of "anti-piracy" efforts. What they are instead is anti-competitive, anti-free speech and anti-public use. Take the time to find out more at the Electronic Freedom Foundation, read the bills, and contact your Senators and Congressman to tell them to take their hands off the Internet.
If you enjoy reading this blog, and thousands of other sites across the web, you owe it to yourself to take action today.
Thanks.
If you enjoy reading this blog, and thousands of other sites across the web, you owe it to yourself to take action today.
Thanks.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Links for Later 1-11-12
- Rev. Roger Williams, the foundation of Rhode Island, and the foundation of the separation of church and state in America
- Creating guilloche patterns in Illustrator
- Wes Anderson style stationery, movie festival marketing
The Future is Now, Vol. LXXXV: The Skin Cell Gun
Jörg Gerlach's skin cell gun is supposed to be able to replace burned skin within four days. One of the most amazing cell culture applications I've ever seen:
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Opportunities
Every time you want to make any important decision, there are two
possible courses of action. You can look at the array of choices that
present themselves, pick the best available option and try to make it
fit. Or, you can do what the true entrepreneur does: Figure out the best
conceivable option and then make it available.
-Jon Burgstone and Bill Murphy
Breakthrough Entrepreneurship
as quoted by Eric Schurenberg in
The Anti-SOPA Ad
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Trouble is the Essence of Entrepreneurship
Colbert’s co-conspirator in those days was the director and playwright
Dexter Bullard, who would call him up and say, “Do you want to get in
trouble?” Getting in trouble meant hiring a hall, inviting some critics
and then picking a play — something by Havel, say, whom they had barely
heard of — and learning it and putting it on in a week or so.
-Charles McGrath
Monday, January 09, 2012
Michel Thomas, The Language Master
Michel Thomas created a novel method of language instruction, in which students are instructed to relax and to make no effort to remember any of what they learn. The result is supposed to be effective learning of the language in hours or days rather than years.
In Nigel Levy's documentary for BBC2, Thomas teaches a group of London secondary school students to speak conversational French in five days.
This past week, I used Michel Thomas' recordings to learn Italian. After two hours, I certainly seemeed to learn something. I seem to have picked up a fine bit of Italian, and unexpectedly also found I was able to read in French with greater ease.
In Nigel Levy's documentary for BBC2, Thomas teaches a group of London secondary school students to speak conversational French in five days.
This past week, I used Michel Thomas' recordings to learn Italian. After two hours, I certainly seemeed to learn something. I seem to have picked up a fine bit of Italian, and unexpectedly also found I was able to read in French with greater ease.
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Friday, January 06, 2012
Links for Later 1-6-12
- How to make a model of your house from a photo and put it in a snowglobe (via boingboing)
- Lamar Smith chooses the "Lie & Deny" strategy to defend SOPA
State of the World
Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowski are back for the 2012 State of the World discussion, and they're spinning memes at a furious pace. A sample:
It's all good. Go now and join in over on the WELL.
The "Caste." Since Italy has had a very low birthrate for a very long time, it's dawning on people that everybody in power is amazingly old and that young people can't get a job or a house. Since the guys at the top of the heap never really leave power or change their policies, they are increasingly decried as the "Caste." Unfortunately for the young, old people vote very regularly and aren't gonna vote against themselves. Japan suffers a similar political helplessness; there's just not enough fresh blood to renew the state. It's gerontocracy in action and it's getting worse. Italy now has a "technocratic" emergency government, but they're all old guys.
It's all good. Go now and join in over on the WELL.
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Haut Nerd Home Design
Author Christopher Paolini lives with his family, collects swords and makes chainmail in his spare time. In short, he's a champion fantasy author and he lives it. Good for him.
Here's his house, dragon sculptures and all.
Here's his house, dragon sculptures and all.
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Livraria Lello & Irmão
Beautiful bookstore in Oporto. That staircase alone is worth a trip. (via @magsarty)
Links for Later 1-3-12
- Tim Ferriss Accelerated Learning at the Long Now
- Leadership and solitude
- Marvelous sentences: "Actor Peter Dinklage, who plays a dwarf on the show, has become the poster child for sodomy among the nation's youths."
- Yes, that last link is satire, people.
Monday, January 02, 2012
Links for Later 1-2-12
- Henry Rollins shows vacation slides of Afghanistan, Iran, Burma and other unlikely places from his new book of photography
- Who knew that fracking could cause earthquakes? WHO KNEW?
- Hey, girl, Ryan Gosling talks about rhetoric
- Ricardianomics Roundup
- More Ricardianoid Throwdown with Noah Smith, who says 'tis not Say's Law, but dY/dG=0 at the heart of the matter
- John Cochrane hath a blog, sure to make Paul Krugman dance for joy
Larry Lessig on the Lost Republic
Thesis: The Republic after the meaning of the founders has been distorted by corruption. It is no longer brown bag corruption, as it was in earlier times; it is now a corrupt system with ostensibly honest people inside.
Here's his interview with On Point, in which he discusses this same corrupting system of money, politics and influence. As a sidenote, this talk is a good example of the fast-slide PowerPoint method Lessig uses, which requires careful synchronization of his talk with his slides.
Here's his interview with On Point, in which he discusses this same corrupting system of money, politics and influence. As a sidenote, this talk is a good example of the fast-slide PowerPoint method Lessig uses, which requires careful synchronization of his talk with his slides.
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Mike DeStefano - Uneasy Rider
A story about living while dying.
The NYT/This American Life version can be read here.
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