February 2010
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“Telling someone they’re pretentious is also a way of warning them not to get...”
– Frieze Magazine
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“Pretension is always someone else’s problem, but it’s a failing you can be...”
– Frieze Magazine via Tomorrow Museum
The syllable OUGH can be pronounced in 9 different...
“A rough, dough-faced thoughtful ploughman emerged from a slough to walk through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing.” (Via a Landmark bag, juliafrances)
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If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent...
PLAYBOY: Did you send Aniston a copy of the CD after it was done? MAYER: No. PLAYBOY: Maybe she’ll download it from BitTorrent. MAYER: If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I’ll eat my fucking shoe. One of the most significant differences between us was that I was tweeting. There was a rumor that I had been dumped because I was tweeting too much. That wasn’t it, but that was a big...
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“Lately, I’ve been wondering if sitting quietly in a café, pretending to read a...”
– Andrew Simone (via mlarson) (via austinkleon) (via wearethedigitalkids)
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The New Rules of War - By John Arquilla | Foreign... →
The visionary who first saw the age of “netwar” coming warns that the U.S. military is getting it wrong all over again. Here’s his plan to make conflict cheaper, smaller, and smarter.
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“Clark attended an early public screening of one of the programmes and was...”
– Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“You can click Next and they can click Next until something gels. And even though...”
– “ChatRoulette, from my perspective,” by Danah Boyd
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“Works of art are among those peculiar commodities whose appeal grow as their...”
– The Power of Art NYTimes.com
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“I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective...”
– Jennifer Egan NYTimes.com
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Monet Refuses the Operation
Doctor, you say that there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret I don’t see, to learn that the line I called the horizon does not exist and sky and water, so long apart,...
A conversation I have every month or so
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever occur to...
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“… on a scale of one to ten, with one being the parents leaving you a neat...”
– Jenna Krajeski on the planned reissue of Anne M Martin’s Babysitters’ Club Books The New Yorker
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“If you add enough of them, what you don’t share gets more protected, more...”
– Rob Horning on status updates Marginal Utility
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“There is a near-perfect correlation between a parent’s explanatory style...”
– Secondhand Blues Psychology Today
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“To a degree, we outsourced to the people we share with the work of assembling...”
– The Rag and Bone Shop of the Self: Social Media and Networked Subjectivity Generation Bubble
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“Identity production appears at first as a more “meaningful” form of work than...”
– The Rag and Bone Shop of the Self: Social Media and Networked Subjectivity Generation Bubble
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“one of the primary goals of social networks is to encourage us to move faster...”
– The Rag and Bone Shop of the Self: Social Media and Networked Subjectivity Generation Bubble
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WatchDrift on Vimeo (via Vimeo) “I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.” This film was made using a digital stills camera to create a stop motion animation.
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“I remain suspicious, however, of anyone who argues that online social networks,...”
– Jonah Lehrer, “Facebook Friends,” The Frontal Cortex
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“In the offline world, of course, we encounter the traces of strangers all the...”
– The Internet of ghosts Snarkmarket
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“sure, you might call yourself a card carrying member of the counter culture, but...”
– BONER PARTY!!! on
the ever popular but ultimately waning sport of “hipster bashing”, something that’s been going on for many years under the alternate name of “Real Life”.