January 2012
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December 2011
3 posts
“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought...”
– David Ben-Gurion
Given that the Iraq War officially ended this past week, I’ve been thinking about the nature of that experience, and how it shaped me, along with the experiences that came after. “Courage” is one of those…things that people talk about in the context of war,...
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November 2011
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Occupy's Asshole Problem: Flashbacks from An Old...
My friend Sara Robinson penned this, as her take on many of the challenges facing the various Occupations taking place across this country. I thought it was a very sharp and prescient essay, so I’m posting it in full here. She sent it as an email to various friends, including me.
I wish I could say that the problems that the Occupy movement is having with infiltrators and agitators are...
October 2011
12 posts
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
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The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
This is just damning.
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Can you draft me up a banner for our downtown location?” Me: “Sure. What did you have in mind?” Client: “It’s very simple. The Banner will read ‘#Occupy Pizza!’” Me: “Uh, do you really want to use that as a marketing ploy? I think it has different connotations than you might think—” Client: “And a picture of a pizza with a tiny slice shaded that says ‘We’re the 99%, so...
VISIONS: TIM HETHERINGTON OPENING RECEPTION
bronxdoc:
At last! Join us for the opening of our inaugural exhibition, Visions: Tim Hetherington and the launch of the Bronx Documentary Center on October 22, from 6-10PM.
Totally visiting this the next time I’m in town.
the understatement: Roboto vs. Helvetica →
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Google announced the mouthful known as “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich” today. The first bullet point of their presentation was a new system-wide font, Roboto. John Gruber quickly pointed out what had caught my eye as well: Roboto sure looks a lot like Helvetica, the typeface so famous they made a movie of it.
Look, I know Picasso said (and Steve Jobs quoted him)...
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not ready to make nice: headdesk →
drunkengenius:
I had a lot of deeply uncomfortable moments reading this piece on Racialicious, which consists of the Facebook comments — under their real names! So much for non-anonymity making the Internet a better place or whatever — from the girl seen holding this sign, her friend that made it and all…
*headdesk* *headwall* *headdoor*
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
(Earlier today, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, passed away at 56. I wrote this email to him when he resigned, and decided to post it as sort of a eulogy, having tweaked it slightly to reflect the news of his death.)
Steve,
You don’t know me from anyone. We’ve met a few times, in passing. And now that you’ve passed, it’s a bit late to be writing this, but here goes...
WatchThe first advert Apple ran after Steve Jobs came back to the company was “Think Different”. You may remember it, it featured people like Gandhi, MLK, Amelia Earhart, and Picasso as folks who literally changed the way we saw the world.
What it didn’t feature was a computer, or indeed any product at all. It was the kind of crazily genius move you’d expect from an Apple led...
September 2011
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Take Back the American Dream
This coming Monday through Wednesday, I’ll be attending the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) annual conference. This year, it’s titled Take Back the American Dream. It’s the ninth year of the conference, and this is the second time I’m attending. I’m actually fairly stoked about going because this year, CAF is joining up with Van Jones’ “Rebuild...
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It's Not Gender Warfare... It's Math. →
annaholmes:
(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marissa Mayer via. Headline via.)
Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day....
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I’m at The Little Farm Stand On 11th & K (Washington)
“Eating breakfast!”
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I’m at U Street Corridor (Washington)
Beginning at 16th and U Street, this area is rich in African American culture: Duke Ellington, Thurgood Marshall, and Langston Hughes lived and worked here. The cultural tradition continues today, with live acts and exhibits drawing crowds to the corridor’s unique art and music venues.
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August 2011
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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is...”
– From NDP Leader Jack Layton’s final message (PDF). Layton died early this morning from cancer, aged 61.
I’ve been choked up all the long day.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in...”
– — George Bernard Shaw.
The piece I just reblogged closed with that quote by Shaw. It rings more and more true in my experience as I grow older.
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“Consider our heroes. Even a cursory glance at most conference lineups reveals a...”
– Tech community, are we MTV or TED? • Tough words, but spot on. Spot fucking on. (via mauricecherry)
Yes, it’s a thought-provoking read.
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Hewlett-Packard, 1946-2011
The news broke this afternoon: http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/18/hp-discontinue-webos-operations/
Following along on the conference call, it struck me: this is the end of the road for Hewlett-Packard, one of Silicon Valley’s foundation stones. The company might stagger on, perhaps indefinitely, but HP as we know it? As people who love computers & technology know it?
That HP is dead,...
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Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Inner Mounting Flame →
mrgan:
A quick music recommendation. Come on, walk with me.
Here’s the thing with fusion jazz. Between 1968 and 1971, it was the greatest thing in music, a rare chimera that walked and talked. Then, things went bananas pretty quickly, and I’m talking rather bad bananas here.
OMG. This is so true. Read the rest, it’s worth it.
“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion...”
– Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862
Before Woodrow Wilson, instead of a State of the Union Address, the President would send instead a written message spelling out what the state of the Union was. This was sent at a particularly difficult time for the North in the...
July 2011
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