January 2012
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“For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know...”
– From the speech Nixon would have given, in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became stranded on the moon. I wonder how different space exploration would be now if this had come to pass?
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Neil Gaiman: An open letter to Washington from... →
neil-gaiman:
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users.
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As…
So say we all.
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Silicon Valley's New Clothes
Yesterday a random post from tech blog The Next Web popped up on my dashboard, featuring a snippet from a story they ran about Filip Santa, a “Gutsy Designer” who launched a site that doubles as his resume called takemetosiliconvalley.com.
“Hello Guys, Scroll Down Please,” the site says.
Go ahead, look at the site and soak it in.
When I landed on the site, my first...
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Happy New Year
I celebrated New Year’s Eve with my boyfriend by calling a restaurant at 5pm, making a reservation for 9pm, and then deciding last-minute to go see a movie before dinner.
We made it to the movie theater five minutes before the movie was supposed to start, and not surprisingly it was sold out. So we wandered around Union Square and held hands and joked about walking to Times Square just to...
December 2011
18 posts
Potentially Awkward
NBC’s Rock Center will feature a segment on Kickstarter tonight. It’s exciting, and if this clip is any indication, the side of the back of my head might be on national television:
Anyways, my parents will be watching because they are parents and I’m glad they’ll get to see what goes on at my office and what (as my mom says) “Kickstart” is. Apparently their...
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“In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support...”
– GoDaddy issues a statement that they no longer support SOPA after customers revolt, and erases all evidence that they ever supported it in the first place.
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BRYCE DOT VC: SOPA Casts Light on the Growing... →
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Two articles grabbed my attention yesterday that touched on a growing concern I’ve been wrestling with far longer than SOPA/PIPA or any individual bill has been bouncing around; namely, that the people making decisions about legislating the future of the technology have little, if any, understanding of it.
As Clay highlights in his post:
Our 111th Congress has 2 professional...
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“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Louis CK, on his recently successful experiment releasing content directly to fans.
There are those who think the Internet needs more regulation to protect the copyright holders and intellectual property owners. Seems to me Louis CK proved that you just need to be fucking funny and really...
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The Kickstarter Tumblr: Don't You Have Better... →
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Mario Lurig is currently running a Kickstarter project for his multisided, infinitely delicious-looking chocolate gaming dice.
In his project description, Mario preemptively answers one of those Big Questions that tend to loom over anyone working on a passion project:
Don’t you have better things to do?
To which Mario had this to say:
This is my better thing! I quit my job 7...
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“Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past...”
– Alan Moore
Man, I love Alan Moore just for existing more and more these days.
(via nerdgerhl)
Amazing.
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Why former English majors shouldn't write Yelp...
Last weekend, after being inspired by a gorgeous, delicious meal I had at a new local restaurant called Bistro Petit, I decided to write a review on Yelp.
I’ve never submitted content to Yelp before. I use it as a guide, mainly when I’m trying to find some place to eat, but I’ve never gone so far as to create a user account and participate in the community.
What led me to...
November 2011
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“I’m a bit Amish. I don’t trust anything after the horse and buggy....”
– Alan Moore, in an interview with Fast Company about the Harvey Pekar Project.
HOLY SHIT ALAN MOORE. This just made my everything.
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WatchAlan Moore has come out of hiding to support the Harvey Pekar project. Join Alan for a “cup of tea and a long winter’s chat” by pledging to the project. Amazing!
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