December 2011
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“Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic...”
– The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic
By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
This next part is from Kenyatta:
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very...
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“According to the Center for an Urban Future, “freelance businesses has been a...”
– - Anthony Townsend, Art as Personal Business in the City: Brooklyn’s Creative Freelance Economy via IFTF’s Future Now
I love Brooklyn.
(via arainert)
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Global Voices Online: The 'At Risk' Blogger's... →
globalvoices:
In 2011, we have witnessed the incredible power of bloggers and social media users capturing the world’s attention through their activism. At the same time, regimes appear to be quickening the pace of their cat-and-mouse game with netizens.
Aware of the threats to their safety, bloggers often devise contingency plans in the event they are detained.
EFF together with Global...
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“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Comedian Louis CK on what he learned from his experiment selling low-cost premium video online (via curiositycounts)
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Andrej Pejic modeling push-up bras →
fakingfashion:
This makes us happy! Andrej Looks adorable modeling for Dutch lingirie brand Hema’s new line of super push up bras! not only is this an amazing way to sell your bra to any drag artist who sees this ad ( literally know so many guys who would flip over what this bra claims to do!), but this is also revolutionary- to have a man modeling “womens” underwear! go andrejjj
This is an...
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Bread and the City
New York magazine has a great set of pieces this week on bread’s current moment in New York. They pick their top loaves and there’s a good NY bread timeline.
A few weeks ago, I gave a TEDx talk about my experience delivering bread for a salon themed “New York, New York.” Here’s the video:
It’s the first version of a project I call Breadmule, which might...
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new kthread spins podcast
Made you a new podcast. It’s over here. (Can’t embed it in Tumblr because the file is too big.)
Playlist:
“Little Blu House” Unknown Mortal Orchestra “Future Starts Slow” The Kills “Impossible” G-Side (Javelin remix) “Cover Your Tracks” Young Galaxy “No More Words” Anna Calvi “The Unsinkable Fats Domino” Guided By Voices “Forever and Ever Amen” The Drums (Saint Etienne remix) “Where...
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“Every generation gets the self-help guru that it deserves.”
– Timothy Ferriss, Silicon Valley’s Self-Help Guru : The New Yorker (via taylordavidson)
It’s full of other gems too, like, “Ferriss’s more technical passages sound like an Onion satire of a TED talk.”
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“It’s straight out of a Don DeLillo novel: A few hours after television producers...”
– VIDEO: OWS Occupies Movie-Set Replica Of Itself, for Real | Mother Jones (via new-aesthetic)
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WatchGoing through the kthread vaults tonight, I discovered this old thing - my first Flash file (converted the .swf to an .avi so I could upload it) with art I drew on a Wacom tablet in 2003.
It’s meant to be a parody of the (in my opinion, awful) Zoloft commercials that were airing that season -
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“Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights. It is a violation...”
– U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • Giving vocal support to the plight of oppressed LGBT persons worldwide, at a meeting of diplomats in Geneva. Clinton’s speech is being hailed as a landmark event in terms of U.S. foreign policy towards LGBT rights, and dovetails with the Obama...
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“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people...”
– Kathryn Schulz on the psychology of regret, a must-see TED talk (via curiositycounts)
Great talk. Valuable, useful, real.
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Dinner Party advice for those with food...
On going to a party when you have food sensitivities
“The kindest thing that the guest can do is call up the host with options. And say, ‘I am just not able to eat wheat because I have a celiac condition and foods that have been created with wheat will give me trouble. So here’s some thoughts and you tell me what you think. I understand you’re cooking for 30. I...