May 2013
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Prepare To Be Even More Disappointed by 'Bang with... →
Have you ever spent a Friday night at home in bed, laptop on your knees, the sickly blue glow from the screen illuminating the room just enough to make the whole scene really, really creepy? Do you click through your friends’ Facebook photos furiously masturbating? No? Well friend, get with the times, because according to the new app “Bang with Friends” everyone has a secret hard-on for...
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“Do you know who Jenna Marbles is? She’s a super-successful YouTube star. She’s...”
– Jaron Lanier: The Internet Destroyed the Middle Class
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FUCK COMMITTEES (I believe in lunatics)
It’s about the struggle between individuals with jagged passion in their work and today’s faceless corporate committees, which claim to understand the needs of the mass audience, and are removing the idiosyncrasies, polishing the jags, creating a thought-free, passion-free, cultural mush that will not be hated nor loved by anyone. By now, virtually all media, architecture, product and graphic...
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Egalitaire
(Excerpted from SUM — forty tales from the afterlife — by David Eagleman)
In the afterlife you discover that God understands the complexities of life. She had originally submitted to peer pressure when She structured Her universe like all the other gods had, with a binary categorization of people into good and evil. But it didn’t take long for Her to realize that humans could be...
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Millenials Aren't Lazy: They're Fucked →
The Great Recession officially ended in 2009. How’s everybody doing? Did you need help uncorking the champagne?
Unless you are a one-percenter who followed an errant link on Twitter, you probably aren’t ordering Cristal for the table.
Our economy has been slowly gaining ground since we bottomed out in the 2008 job-pocalypse. That oughta be good for people, right? But, turns out 121 percent of...
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Allen Iverson, NBA Icon, Struggles With Life After... →
PHILADELPHIA — Less than an hour before the 8 p.m. tipoff, Philadelphia 76ers employees are scurrying around the Wells Fargo Center, hoping this Saturday night unfolds as planned.
It’s late March, and the team is handing out Allen Iverson bobblehead dolls. Iverson himself is scheduled to attend, a rare public appearance for the 37-year-old former NBA superstar. He’ll be introduced during a...
April 2013
4 posts
Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World's Most... →
The Future of Advertising →
By: mnmlist
One of the biggest reasons people buy so much, and are so discontent with their lives, is advertising. Advertising creates false needs — all of a sudden we need an iPhone or a new car or a diamond ring, just because an advertiser put the need in our heads.
What is advertising? It’s a company (or political candidate, etc.) paying a publishing platform (TV, newspaper, website,...
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LIP CHASER
Ears ringin’ teeth clickin’ ears ringin’ teeth clickin’ ears ears ears ringin’ teeth clickin’ ears ringin’ teeth clickin’ ears ears ring.
March 2013
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"My defeat sleeps top to toe with her success"
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LOCAL NATIVES -- Ceilings
This is the best track off Local Natives’ new album Hummingbird. It slowly builds into an amazing performance…
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“…not visual or aural stimulation but a convenient way to shut oneself off...”
– THIS is the next great invention.
February 2013
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REGRETS OF THE DYING →
By: Bronnie Ware
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a...
January 2013
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"Like all good fruit the balance of life is in the...
December 2012
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“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies...”
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RA RA RIOT — When I Dream
Jazzy-Sassy.
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Is introspection just a complicated term for...
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ALT-J -- Breezeblocks
Alt-J’s debut album An Awesome Wave is far and away my favorite album of 2012. And of course they countered this great song with a compelling video.
November 2012
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IO ECHO -- When the Lilies Die
This song sounds like it belongs on the Encino Man or Clueless soundtrack… or in some sort of mid-90’s high school flick with a hot blonde lead. Everything about the sound and video is amazing.
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AdTrap: Look Out Palo Alto
“You don’t want to ruin it with ads because ads aren’t cool. It’s like you’re throwing the greatest party on campus and someone saying it’s gotta be over by eleven.” — The Social Network
AdTrap is a piece of hardware which connects between your router and modem and acts as an online ad filter. No software. Nothing but a box. Simply plug it in and...
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Vibrative Virtual Keyboard
This app actually looks like more work than pleasure, but it might evolve into something amazing. It could be the death of laptops (are they still alive?). Imagine being able to carry an invisible keyboard with you everywhere you go…
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Blissymbolics
“75% of the earth population or about 1,500,000,000 people are illiterate. They can’t read and they can’t write. The languages of the primitive people are split up in thousands of dialects, which defy alphabetical phonetical standardization. “The symbols of semantography are in the main almost self-explanatory. They show the outline of things. They would be an excellent...
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GASHCAT — Lady of the Ark
Amazing.
Less Waste = More Money
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“The DNA of climate change is apparent in Sandy through the sea level rise. I...”
– Marshall Sheppard, president of the American Meteorological Society and director of Atmospheric Sciences Program at the University of Georgia, speaking on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday. Simple analogies go a long way.
October 2012
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Medusa's Gaze And Vampire's Bite →
SOM: This NPR transcript is extremely long but too fascinating to abbreviate. If you’re a sucker for vampires, werewolves, and zombies, this is right up your alley. If you’re not a fan of any of the above, this is still right up your alley. They all exist! (kinda)
IRA FLATOW, HOST:
Next up, the science of monsters. Like most myths, there are some real-world phenomena behind the...
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PEOPLE GET READY — Windy City
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“Not on my side.
Or the other side.
Not on my side.
Don’t bring it on my...”
– Jason Pierre-Paul
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Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit. →
Using complex actuarial tables and adjusting for smoking, waist circumference, dietary quality, exercise habits and other variables, the scientists were next able to isolate the specific effect that the hours of sitting seemed to be having on people’s life spans.
And the findings were sobering: Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by...
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The Brain On Love →
Just consider how much learning happens when you choose a mate. Along with thrilling dependency comes glimpsing the world through another’s eyes; forsaking some habits and adopting others (good or bad); tasting new ideas, rituals, foods or landscapes; a slew of added friends and family; a tapestry of physical intimacy and affection; and many other catalysts, including a tornadic blast of...
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Peter Weyland at TED2023
One of the several viral marketing campaigns produced by the creators of Prometheus and the directors of California’s TED Talks. The guy speaking in the video, incidentally, is the old man that funded the Prometheus mission in the movie, Peter Weyland.
Love this marketing strategy by the way.
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Does Biology Make us Liars? →
Self-love makes the world go round. But, alongside cooperation, could self-love give birth to deception? Could the imperative of self-regard be so great, in fact, as to lead to self-deceit? In his new book, Robert Trivers, a master of evolutionary thought, roams from stick insects and brain magnets to plane crashes and Israeli-Palestinian wars in service of a corollary to Aristotle’s hard-boiled...
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ODD FUTURE — Forest Green [feat. Mike G]
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“Some people used to say, why is the man so preoccupied and obsessed with war,...”
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September 2012
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Good News: You Will Live Forever
I came across this compelling quote over a year ago. Delighted, it is the first thought which enters my mind when staring off into space.
“We may be only one of millions of advanced civilizations. Unfortunately, space being spacious, the average distance between any two of these civilizations is reckoned to be at least two hundred light-years, which is a great deal more than merely saying it makes...
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“The old man always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in...”
– — From The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 