February 2012
3 posts
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Fuck concepts. Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
– George Saunders, “The New Mecca” (from The Braindead Megaphone)
“For Burroughs, these alternative approaches to inner life ranged close to his...”
– Article: The Letters William S. Burroughs Wrote at the Height of His Success
January 2012
10 posts
“Could they extend into a whole clothing range? Protocell technology is a...”
– One Foot In The Future? Protocell Technology Could Produce Self-Repairing Shoes | The Creators Project
How to nap at work →
a tip from Scott Adams (Dilbert):
“Grab a handful of papers and find an office/meeting room. Shut the door and lie down on the ground with your feet against the door. Sprinkle the papers in front of you. Now have a nap.
If someone tries to enter the room, the door will hit your feet. This will naturally cause them to pause (and stops them entering), it wakes you up and lets you ...
“Love is letting the world be half-tamed”
– Paris Review – Poppies, Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Most of the biosphere cannot see the infosphere; it is invisible, a parallel...”
– What Defines a Meme? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
December 2011
8 posts
“Is there a conflict between what can and can’t be proven by science?
...”
– Alan Moore on Science and Imagination | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History
“Dimethylpolysiloxane, a type of silicone, is used in caulks and sealants, as a...”
– Anti-foaming agent found in Chicken McNuggets
“the best you can do in life, is learn. You can’t really do anything right....”
– Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing : IAmA
Artists, or their heirs, who fall into the trap of attacking the collagists and satirists and digital samplers of their work are attacking the next generation of creators for the crime of being influenced, for the crime of responding with the same mixture of intoxication, resentment, lust, and glee that characterizes all artistic successors, by doing so they make the world smaller, betraying what...
November 2011
12 posts
“You know what’s great about New York? The threshold for citizenship as a New...”
– Anthony Bourdain in his new show, “The Layover“ (via alittlespace)
“Study changes a man, puts pride into him. You need it to get to the bottom of life. Without it you just skim the surface. You think you’re in the know, but trifles throw you off. You dream too much. You content yourself with words instead of going deeper. That’s not what you wanted. Intentions, appearances, no more. A man of character can’t content himself with that....
WatchDiego Stocco - Music From A Dry Cleaner (by Diego Stocco)
Limitations breeding creativity
“I was working for Square at the time, which made me think a lot about San...”
– buzz commenting on a nytimes article on his tumblr. (via cacioppo)
“A young, shy Japanese couple that has been married for seven years are too...”
– List of 1000 Ways to Die episodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I can’t stop reading this Wikipedia page
“I suspect that Jobs’ chutzpah as the Valley’s most dramatic and effective...”
– What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really? | NeuroTribes
Best article I’ve read on Steve Jobs
October 2011
30 posts
“Woah
“Perhaps one day we can even build computers out of cotton fibers...”
– Cornell Chronicle: Transistors made from natural cotton fibers
Never-Seen: Hells Angels, 1965 - Photo Gallery -... →
Why wasn’t the Angels story published in LIFE, after Bill Ray and Joe Bride spent so much time not merely reporting the story, but literally risked life and limb getting inside this notoriously insular, diehard gang. According to Bride, “George Hunt [LIFE’s managing editor] said he didn’t want to run a piece on ‘those smelly bastards.’” Bill Ray,...
The fragility of ideas →
Steve used to say to me — and he used to say this a lot — “Hey Jony, here’s a dopey idea.”
And sometimes they were. Really dopey. Sometimes they were truly dreadful. But sometimes they took the air from the room and they left us both completely silent. Bold, crazy, magnificent ideas. Or quiet simple ones, which in their subtlety, their detail, they were utterly ...
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised...
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic...”
– Aldous Huxley (via wedesireabridge)