January 2010
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Geek Squad Founder: Journalism Start-Ups Must... →
shaneguiter:
Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens says anyone contemplating a journalism start-up should think of getting a mobile presence first and then think of a computer application that plays off the app, not the other way around. Indeed, if he were starting the Geek Squad today, it would not be providing support for computers, it would be all about tablets and mobile devices.
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“Sheena is a punk rocker”
– The Ramones
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Institute for Human Continuity
maxmaarek:
2012, le prochain film catastrophe de Roland Emmerich, ne sortira pas en salles avant plusieurs mois mais la promo a déjà commencé.
Plusieurs sites ont ainsi été lancés dont celui de l’Institute for Human Continuity qui a bout but de s’assurer de la survie de la race humaine après la série de cataclysmes qui frapperont la terre en 2012.
Il est ainsi possible, en remplissant un...
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Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism →
infoneer-pulse:
Great products, according to Mr. Jobs, are triumphs of “taste.” And taste, he explains, is a byproduct of study, observation and being steeped in the culture of the past and present, of “trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then bring those things into what you are doing.”
His is not a product-design philosophy steered by committee or determined by...
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sexmusic:
pot kettle black // tilly and the...
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ACTA : le traité secret qui pourrait changer la... →
(via humantarget)
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“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via daughterofthewillowtrees) (via jesuisperdu)
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Virtual Revolution
mikropikol:
Extraits rush d’un documentaire “virtual revolution” en 4 partie actuellement diffusé sur la BBC.
1) Doug Rushkoff à propos du “Free” web.
2) Andrew Keen sur l’évolution de l’Internet libre vers un monde virtuelle oligarchique.
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“Crazy insane? Or crazy like the time I set up a video camera in my house and...”
– Mahandra McGinty [Wonderfalls, 1x01 Wax Lion] (via fuckyeahfullerverse) (via squeegybeckinheim)
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Lost Week - Le destin tragique des personnages →
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Of Digital Culture : a Parable
“[About culture] In most organizations these elements develop unconsciously and organically to create a system that, while not always ideal, works. To change the culture is awkward, self-conscious, and complex. It’s better to avoid it if possible.
[…] “Why do you want to change the culture?” I asked him. […] He had to think for a few moments. “It’s...
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media archaeologies
astralhauntings:
As Geert Lovink (2003, 11) generalizes the archaeological perspective, ‘Media archaeology is first and foremost a methodology, a hermeneutic reading of the ‘new’ against the grain of the past, rather than a telling of the histories of technologies from past to present.’ By reading digital media ‘into history, not the other way around,’ Lovink suggests, the media archaeologist...
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headunderwater:
Grizzly Bear - Boy From School...
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Lost Theory by the Geekdom's Council
Orci: You're still doing "It was all the dog's dream," right?
Lindelof: Yeah.
Burk: It's all purgatory.
Cuse: It's all in the dog's mind.
Lindelof: It's not a dream. That's ridiculous.
http: //www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/200912/jj-abrams-flashforward-lost-star-trek
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10 ways to say "weird" in #German
laureola:
germanheit:
1.) seltsam
2.) komisch
3.) eigenartig
4.) sonderbar
5.) befremdlich
6.) ungewöhnlich
7.) absonderlich
8.) merkwürdig
9.) fremdartig
10.) abwegig
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“Thank you from the bottom of my heart… and from the bottom of my bottom.”
– Betty White, receiving her 2010 Lifetime Achievement SAG Award (via illbethereforu) (via heartwarming)
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Internet 2009 in numbers →
jayneff:
What happened with the Internet in 2009?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.
Email
90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
247 billion – Average number of email messages per day.
1.4...
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“We love this exaltation (woh oh, o-o-oh)
We want the new temptations (woh oh,...”
– Alphabeat, “Fascination”
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falseeeyelashes:
“Of Mice and Ben,” Michael...
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do you think there's like a ring of legitimately...
deconstruct:
because if so i agree they’re out there and i really want to burst in on them
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“Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Whine less, breathe more. Talk less,...”
– Swedish Proverb (via carlyvous) (via quote-book)
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