January 2009
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“So, it looks like the image that poster artist Shepard Fairey said looked...”
– Tom Gralish finds the photo used to create the iconic Obama poster
“The same things that make real world communities so vibrant, engaging and...”
– Ethan Kaplan, aka blackrimglasses, excerpted from a report to his colleagues at a newspaper in 1997. See the full blog post for the rest of the story.
“And so imagine if, instead of launching a community project and stating, “this...”
– Nina Simon, in a post entitled “The Exclusivity Paradox” on her Museum 2.0 blog that has spurred quite a bit of interesting discussion - be sure to read through the comments.
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“McCain, though it was his own fault (or that of his handlers), didn’t...”
– Jason Kottke, on the news that President Obama has been quietly consulting John McCain for advice on nominees and other issues.
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The Abominable Charles Christopher
Through some serendipitous twitter link-following today, I stumbled across a weekly web-comic called the Abominable Charles Christopher. It follows a baby abominable snowman making his way through a world. It is beautifully drawn and the story unfolds slowly and organically. When I got to the New Year’s post and saw a David Foster Wallace reference, I had to pause and tumblog. ...
WatchFrom the creator, Joe Nicolosi:
My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top.
I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration.
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Using Play Tagger to Share Music
A great post from @gcn1 reblogged in its entirety. I’m loving all the new ways I’ve recently learned to use delicious. I see it moving from being a useful tool to a powerful toolbox for me.
gcn:
Image via Wikipedia
Knowing that Tumblr only allows one song post per day, getting around this limitation is pretty easy. You can post songs hosted by a third-party host (I like...
Apparently, I live in Indonesia →
U.S. States renamed for countries with similar GDP. h/t rands
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CyTunes - download music, downsize cancer
I built the following using sproutbuilder
It's what you communicate (not what you know)...
Some twitter stream serendipity: kathleenhessert: It’s fascinating how the person who communicates an idea gets credit for having the idea. perception:you’re smarter when you can explain
followed not too much later by
eyecube: Smart People / Smart Ideas #77 @kanter on has a take on streamlining for Twitter feed http://tinyurl.com/a59trx
The interesting thing being the link...
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Sometimes you shouldn't try to grow your market. →
Despite being sent to me with the subject line “It’s about damned time.”
And couldn’t they have found some guys who look a bit more masculine if they’re trying to convince us that this is a product designed for men? And…never mind, I shouldn’t get started, because I’ll never stop coming up with reasons this is a bad idea with poor execution.
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It's hard to find affordable housing in NYC...
$325 EAST VILLAGE- Controlled and large 3 bed (East Village)
Date: 2009-01-01, 4:39AM EST
-Wow…I can’t believe I am doing this..But I am looking for someone to rent my rent controlled apartment. The monthly rent is extremely cheap and would be a dream for many people in this city. It is in the east village close to A and 3rd. I caught my wife in bed with our neighbor who is almost 20 years...