February 2012
5 posts
intercourse with biscuits: If Facebook had existed... →
brokenbottleboy:
If Facebook had existed when I was a teenager, I would probably be dead. I was bullied from the beginning of high school until around the start of fifth form (year 11). For me, the Brit-Pop years were about listening to Blur, wanting a swagger like Liam Gallagher had, fancying Justine…
January 2012
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Mr Cruz and the Agony and Ecstasy of John Gruber →
There has been a lot of news recently about Apple and their relationship to the factory workers in China. Many reports have been coming out about the worker mistreatment in these factories, the little money they earn, the long hour shifts, and the most disturbing of all, the suicides by the workers in the Foxconn plant.
Taking Pictures of Pictures: Dirty Beaches, David... →
“Emerson: DADDY!
Me: yes?
Emerson: I — I like music better.”
– kung fu grippe: Upon the playing of the Back to Work podcast during our school commute
That kid is harsh!
“And, bonus question: Who would win in a fight, Clay Shirky or Nicholas Carr?...”
– What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World - Technology - The Atlantic
David Weinberger making clever internet jokes in promotion of his new book, Too Big to Know. He goes on to make some interesting points about technodeterminism in Carr’s, Shirky’s and his own work.
(via mediology)
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The Link Between Tv Viewing and Income →
If you spend most of your time on some passive activity that distracts you from other activities you could be doing, you’re not going to accomplish many things in life. And you’re definitely not going to make any money while sitting on the couch flipping channels. You might be entertained, culturally enlightened by watching Mad Men, and even theoretically learning something by watching PBS,...
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intercourse with biscuits: “Where do you see... →
brokenbottleboy:
JANUARY 2002
I had been driving for just over a month and the joy was palpable. I loved my little grey Peugeot 205 more than is strictly healthy. It was symbolised that the period of my life that required me to spend hours in a cramped car with a driving instructor who made stop to ogle…
My whole body fills up with rage and sadness every time I get asked that question.
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turbine: Glenn O'Brien is smarter than all of us →
steampoweredmedia:
I’m chest-deep in Glenn O’Brien’s How to be a Man: A Guide to Style and Behavior for the Modern Gentleman, and I’d say it’s anything but what you might expect. Rather than concise, bulleted lists of tie and belt do’s and don’ts, O’Brien gives us an arch, snarky, intelligent guide to taking no…
Loved the book.
turbine: You want to be a writer? →
steampoweredmedia:
Don’t. It is thankless and brutal work. If you want to live like a writer, which I understand is some of the allure of this whole being a writer, become a mid-level accountant instead. It will give you salary enough for cigarettes and booze and be wrote enough you can stay out late smoking and…
December 2011
19 posts
intercourse with biscuits: Die Hard 101: life... →
brokenbottleboy:
While I attempt to formulate my New Year’s resolutions, here are the five life lessons I divined by carefully studying the Die Hard franchise…
1. RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD
”Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…”
What did John McClane get for his wife in 1988?…
Great stuff.
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Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Focused dabbling →
mrgan:
Dan Benjamin on Back to Work:
“I don’t believe it’s possible to have a side business. I don’t think you can have a business on the side. I don’t think you can go to work and have a job and then come home and run a business. I believe that both the job and the side business… you will never…
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Hacksploitation →
Think for a moment of movies that deal with computers. With the exception of You’ve Got Mail, which was a giant AOL advertisement, computer users are either hackers, or are either hackers. That’s not a typo. They’re dangerous people and can destroy civilization as we know it.
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