May 2012
April 2012
“Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense...”
– Lord Chesterfield quotes
“A Pyrrhic victory (/ˈpɪrɪk/) is a victory with such a devastating cost to the...”
– Pyrrhic victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“the price of this smooth sociability is a constant compulsion to assert one’s...”
– Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Magazine - The Atlantic
“The beauty of Facebook, the source of its power, is that it enables us to be...”
– Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Loneliness burrows deep: “When we drew blood from our older adults and analyzed...”
– Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Magazine - The Atlantic
“As Ronald Dworkin pointed out in a 2010 paper for the Hoover Institution, in the...”
– Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Magazine - The Atlantic
“The film’s most indelible scene, the one that may well have earned it an Oscar,...”
– Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Jarvis Cocker is a first-rate frontman. He leaps. He flails. He poses in...”
– Live Review, 4/17/12: Pulp Makes the Class War Sexy at the Warfield - San Francisco Music - All Shook Down
“The one overriding goal of digital technology has seemingly become to make...”
– Music in the Age of No-Effort | Culture | Trebuchet Magazine
“By effort I mean a more than casual expenditure of time and/or resources....”
– Music in the Age of No-Effort | Culture | Trebuchet Magazine
“Music is an ancient, mysterious, compelling means of expression. If we’ve...”
– Music in the Age of No-Effort | Culture | Trebuchet Magazine
“Technology-enabled, we are able to be with one another, and also elsewhere,...”
– Nyt
“My students tell me about an important new skill: it involves maintaining eye...”
– Nyt
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“Individuals were willing to make larger revisions in their estimates based on...”
– Are Two Heads Really Better Than One? - Forbes
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“By shooting all those redundant, useless digital images I’m simply passing the...”
– Derek Shapton (via syntheticpubes)
Watch(via Watch Pulp on “Jimmy Fallon” | News | Pitchfork)
“One key shot — a single finger hitting a key on a synthesizer that lets...”
– The Chemical Brothers: Don’t Think — pitchfork.com — Readability
seriously, chills.
Watch(via New MAKER: Miranda July | MAKERS)
Watch(via New MAKER: Miranda July | MAKERS)
“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it. Then you know that...”
– Miranda July from ”Birthmark” in Paris Review (Spring 2003)
“As a technological juggernaut, Facebook is more Microsoft than Tumblr. To use a...”
– When did Facebook become so uncool? - CNN.com
the state of journalism today.
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“Tetris was invented exactly when and where you would expect — in a Soviet...”
– Sam Anderson (via notgames)
“Think of artworks not as objects but as ‘triggers for experiences’.”
– Brian Eno (via naomijade) 