September 2010
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June 2010
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“Artists, as a species, are amazing people. And America, as a general rule, does...”
– My Competitive Advantage: I Hire Artists – ChrisAshworth.org
(It’s hard to find companies that take this approach. In my experience, people only want employees whose only loyalty is to that company, not to themselves.)
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May 2010
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“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an...”
– Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
April 2010
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How Apple Lost the Next iPhone - Leak - Gizmodo →
Even if it turns out Apple sanctioned the “leak”, I’m still glad I’m not this guy.
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“Under the influences of hallucinogens,” Dr. Grob writes, “individuals transcend...”
– Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again - NYTimes.com
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An Ethical dilemma
So if you’ve paid for an item in one format, is it okay to download it illegally in another? The NYT says yes. My ethics teacher would probably weep.
An illegal download is — to use an ugly word — illegal. But in this case, it is not unethical. Author and publisher are entitled to be paid for their work, and by purchasing the hardcover, you did so. Your subsequent downloading is akin to...
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The Don't Be a Dick License
This proposal for a “Don’t be a Dick License” came to my attention via a tweet from Wil Wheaton. Of course if people weren’t generally dickish about copyright it wouldn’t need to exist in the first place.
version 0.1 Project: Candy v0.2 Author: Stephen Eley (sfeley@gmail.com) This is a proposed draft of the Don’t Be a Dick license for open source projects. The...
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March 2010
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How to sell out the cool way
Interesting take on the rise of Lady Gaga.
We’ve abandoned dogmatic No Logo, but we’re not really pro-logo either. We just want logos that look and sound the way we want them to.
Maisonneuve | Lady Gaga’s Pro-Logo Video
As I mentioned on my twitter account, the Telephone video is the most interesting, fun and watchable that I’ve seen in ages. It used to feel like all the...
February 2010
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“…surveillance and surveillance cameras don’t make us safer. The...”
– Spy cameras won’t make us safer - CNN.com
I agree. Giving up privacy sometimes makes us safer, but if it doesn’t we should take our privacy back.
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“It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the...”
– Stand Up While You Read This! - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Interesting. Not surprising, but it’s nice to see studies back it up and some easy suggestions.
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UCSD Fratboys prove racism and stupidity are...
Apparently, members of Pi Kappa Alpha corralled a couple of hundred socially tone-deaf friends to celebrate Black History Month by pantomiming ghetto life and the black underclass.
I was going to quote what the invite actually said, but ignorance on that level is not something I care to preserve in my own space. Excerpts are provided thru the link.
-Racist frat boys will be racist frat boys...
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Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord -... →
In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
Seems, “My Way” and Coldplay’s “Yellow” as your karaoke choice can get you killed in the Phillipines too. To be honest, I think for “Yellow”...
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January 2010
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“Sociality may turn out to be a much better variable for describing and...”
– Privacy is over. Here comes sociality. | Matter/Anti-Matter - CNET News
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The modern photographer | New Media Photographer |... →
Interesting take on promoting photos in the digital age.
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“This was one of the things that was in my head when I was writing the “in...”
– -Ben Curtis, speaking with Errol Morris
It Was All Started by a Mouse (Part 1) - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
December 2009
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“And while there will always be something mysterious in the workings of the muse,...”
– On the Care and Feeding of Ideas -Sean Michael Ragan
