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Killing the Cowboy: Lessons from a Pager - Jeff Hodges (by...

Tue, 29 May 2012 11:29:47 -0600

Killing the Cowboy: Lessons from a Pager - Jeff Hodges (by Boundary)

Muppet Show Pitch

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:24:02 -0600

Muppet Show Pitch

"This isn’t about startup incubators or policy positions. It’s not about..."

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:17:08 -0600

“This isn’t about startup incubators or policy positions. It’s not about “innovation in America” or which tech blog loves startups the most. This is about how Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we’re all too stunned to figure out what’s next.”

- The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

I’mma just leave this here.

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:49:21 -0600

I’mma just leave this here.

"Forget about it being entertaining, which I concede it is. It has managed to convince everyone that..."

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:25:13 -0600

“Forget about it being entertaining, which I concede it is. It has managed to convince everyone that a passive character whose main strength is that she thinks a lot of thoughts and feels a lot of feelings, but who ultimately lets every decision be made by someone else— that is a female hero, a winner. You wouldn’t allow yourself to like a story where the woman lacks agency, so it’s clothed in a vampire story or a female Running Man so it sounds like she’s making things happen.”

- The Last Psychiatrist: What’s Wrong With The Hunger Games Is What No One Noticed

This is what bugged me about the books, but I hadn’t stated it this eloquently. Things just happen to Katniss, and then she gets a chance to brood about it before more things happen to her.

"When programming distributed systems becomes part of your life, you go through a learning curve...."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:34:41 -0600

“When programming distributed systems becomes part of your life, you go through a learning curve. This article tries to describe my current level of understanding of the field, and hopefully points out enough mistakes for you to be able follow the most optimal path to enlightenment: learning from the mistakes of others.”

- The Game of Distributed Systems Programming. Which Level Are You? « Incubaid Research (via @moonpolysoft)

"I have a better idea: Let’s be good to one another because it is the RIGHT thing. Not out of..."

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:07:10 -0600

“I have a better idea: Let’s be good to one another because it is the RIGHT thing. Not out of fear of punishment or promise of a bribe. Let’s not be quick to forgive, so people will consider their actions carefully. Let’s not hope for a better life beyond this one when we can instead keep striving to make what we know exists as fair and wonderful as possible. And instead of worrying about what comes after this life, let’s keep in mind that everything we ever do will always have happened, whether anyone is around to remember those actions or not. Our decisions are eternal whether or not we are. And when it comes to ethics, let us improve them over time, and not rely on ancient traditions that claim a divine truth that can not be questioned. Religion has been used to justify torture and slavery, and today it is a reason to shame and abuse homosexuals and people of other faiths. That William Paul Young could not exert himself to overthrow these superstitions, rather than prop them, means that even his success is a failure, and I have to rate the book as such.”

- Amazon.com: Hugh C. Howey’s review of The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

"Listen to the latte and the cappuccino foam as you fly along the avenue and coffee takes you..."

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:51:58 -0600

“Listen to the latte and the cappuccino foam as you fly along the avenue and coffee takes you home
hear the rush of the sugar, hear the whistle scream we’re riding through the jungle on power of caffeine”

- Cowboys | March 26, 2011 | A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor | American Public Media

Emmy Lou Harris singing a duet, can’t go wrong.

"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love,..."

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:12:32 -0700

“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

- neiltyson comments on I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ask Me Anything…

"If you cannot paint a better picture on the expanded canvas, somebody else likely will. That’s why..."

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:02:20 -0700

“If you cannot paint a better picture on the expanded canvas, somebody else likely will. That’s why Big Data matters.”

- Can You Use Big Data? The Litmus Test - Forbes

(via Forget Your Past – Timothy Allen | Photography | Film, via...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:00:06 -0700

(via Forget Your Past – Timothy Allen | Photography | Film, via therealadam)

"If you want to blow your mind, go to your CS department’s library and look through the books..."

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:28:58 -0700

“If you want to blow your mind, go to your CS department’s library and look through the books printed before 1980. You’ll be surprised how much diversity, hope and optimism there was, back when our technical aesthetics were completely enslaved to the 1970s.”

- Daniel Lyons - Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s: A rejection of the rejection of the 1970s

dotsara: Damn right, it’s better than yours by Erik...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:36:12 -0700

dotsara:

Damn right, it’s better than yours by Erik Marinovich

Love it.

"Give us convenient content at a reasonable price, and we’ll buy it. Sell the stuff without DRM, for..."

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:16:27 -0700

“Give us convenient content at a reasonable price, and we’ll buy it. Sell the stuff without DRM, for a few dollars. Make it available to everyone, worldwide, at the same time. Then take the massive, unending pile of money, forever. Or keep doing what you’re doing, and enjoy your ceaseless war of attrition, ever-rising tide of negative public opinion, and eventual forced irrelevance. And get fucked.”

- The Piracy Threshold - Matt Gemmell

"A few minutes of reading that will elevate your good taste and cement your mixological foundations"

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:10:47 -0700

“A few minutes of reading that will elevate your good taste and cement your mixological foundations”

- Old Fashioned 101

Required reading, via @kneath

"The more I study technology, the more I tend to the view that it is a single connected whole...."

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:36:26 -0700

“The more I study technology, the more I tend to the view that it is a single connected whole. Recurring motifs like container ships can turn into obsessions precisely because they offer glimpses of a cryptic God. An object for the devoutly atheist and anti-humanist soul to seek in perpetuity, but never quite comprehend.”

- Glimpses of a Cryptic God

"I helped people navigate through the degrading hoops of modern online society, fighting for scraps..."

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:42:39 -0700

“I helped people navigate through the degrading hoops of modern online society, fighting for scraps from the plate, and then kicking back afterwards by pretending to have a farm on Facebook.”

- California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter

Why libraries are so important.

"But it strikes me that, though she wears a pretty technodress, underneath DS9 is Grandma telling us..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:47:43 -0700

“But it strikes me that, though she wears a pretty technodress, underneath DS9 is Grandma telling us kids how it was in her day, and that no matter how many fancy doodads we get, her day will go on forever.”

- #shitsiskosays - Charlie’s Diary

The Bouletcorp » Darkness

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:58:52 -0700

The Bouletcorp » Darkness

Kempt - The Phone Stack

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:10:48 -0700

Kempt - The Phone Stack:

Do it. Be strong. (via @pug)