January 2012
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I'm listening to NPR.
wordishness: I will never understand the opposition to gay marriage as anything other than a manifestation of fear. Agreed, and it makes me ask, a fear of what? It just doesn’t make sense to me.
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December 2011
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2011
I’m not usually one who gets excited for New Year’s Eve. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll go out, spend time with friends, and reminisce, but it’s not usually a big thing to me. For whatever reason, New Year’s and St. Patrick’s Day are two “holidays” that I just don’t get all excited about. I’m not necessarily sentimental about particular...
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“The “modern” GOP is actually a pre-modern identity-based party. It is...”
– A Feature Not a Bug (via azspot)
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Frank Chimero: Seven Incredible Things from Today... →
viafrank: A man helped a woman carry her stroller down the stairs to the subway. They got to the bottom, and he saw another woman approach the top of the stair with her stroller, and he went back up to help her, too. I realized that fire breathes just like we do. Oxygen in, carbon dioxide out. I waved at… Pretty great. Click through to read them all.
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November 2011
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Clients From Hell: Client: “Can you photoshop a... →
clientsfromhell: Client: “Can you photoshop a smile on Greg’s face. That guy is so depressing.” Me: “Well, I think it looks just fi—” Client: “We’re a travel agency, we’re supposed to sell good times to people. Greg just looks like he’s selling misery. He looks like Eeyore.” Me: “I don’t think he looks—”
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“Jobs’s vision, brilliant and perfect as it was, was narrow. He was a tweaker to...”
– Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker As Gladwell gains more and more popularity I find his insights more and more shortsighted. Calling Steve a “tweaker” is a pretty elementary claim. I’d like to believe every creative person is a “tweaker.” No ideas are...
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Books
I just finished reading “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey, “Steve Jobs” by Walter Issacson and “Damned” by Chuck Palahniuk. Anyone have any good recommendations for something next?
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“…because no matter how many people buy iPhones, there’s always going to be...”
– Motorola’s Gimmicks – Marco.org One of the best lines I’ve read in a long time.
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