March 2010
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“The participatory nature of Twitter and Facebook also makes them excellent tools...”
– “How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive,” Wired
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“Given…that any reasonably intelligent human being is going to know that...”
– Philosopher A.C. Grayling on whether it is possible to work in advertising and be an ethical person, in “I Sold My Soul And I Love It,” Design Observer
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“Whenever humans design and make a useful thing they invariably expend a good...”
– Architect, industrial designer, and woodcraftsman David Pye in 1964, quoted in “Superbeauty,” by Julie Lasky Design Observer
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“Novelists may glance at the stuff of the world too, but we sometimes get called...”
– “The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism,” Jonathan Lethem Harper’s Magazine
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“it’s a lot to ask of a reader to embark on an intertextual scavenger hunt...”
– “In Which We Are Nowhere Near Venice & Nowhere Near Varanasi,” Shahirah Majumdar This Recording
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This NYT article about hash browns is amazing. →
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WatchWhile packing up Courtney’s apartment yesterday, we were inspired by the last few odds and ends.
By thegooglymoogly.
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“During the subprime bubble, banks and brokers sold one another bad debt — debt...”
– “The Social Media Bubble,” Umair Haque Harvard Business Review
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“One of the most influential propositions in marketing is that customer...”
– Companies and the Customers Who Hate Them Harvard Business Review
“Hey now, really, to whom are all these people talking on their phones, all the...”
– “To Whom Are all These People Talking on Their Phones?” The Awl
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“I’ve found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing...”
– Walter Murch in The Conversations, via fenced lot, clusterflock
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“An entire generation seems to have become used to experiences clogged with menus...”
– Less Talk More Rock Boing Boing
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“Hipster” has become SEO gold, and as such, as meaningless as “hot” or...”
– Hipster Hipster Hipster Marginal Utility
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“START, EVERY TIME, WITH THIS INVIOLABLE RULE: THE SCENE MUST BE DRAMATIC”
– David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit
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“New research suggests that those who make “green” purchases are...”
– “Another way to think about it is that you’re off the hook – you’ve done your good deed,” explains Benoît Monin, a psychologist at Stanford University in California who studies the phenomenon, called “moral self-licensing”.
“Exposed: green consumers’...
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On beautiful:
I read a short anecdote about living life as if in a film consumed by beautiful, inspirational things – including the self. Beautiful clothes and beautiful food and beautiful, kind people. The idea seemed silly but two nights ago, I stopped reading at 10:30PM and began to clean my room. It was not a furiously paced task and I only spent 45 minutes on it. Afterwards, I let out a breath I did not...
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Why young women are showing off their shopping... →
By Marisa Meltzer, Slate Magazine
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“It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is...”
– Jonathan Franzen, Ten rules for writing fiction
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“[The internet] makes the measurement of the self nearly inescapable, and makes...”
– Boredom Production | Marginal Utility | PopMatters
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“Talking to the manifesto children in the war room, they are all very excited...”
– UK elections: Malcolm Tucker’s election briefing The Guardian