January 2008
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“One of the things which disappoints me so much about the whole web 2.0 community...”
– Cameron Reilly on episode #15 of The 2Web Crew podcast.
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Patrick Moberg's new T-shirt site →
Others are already talking but I wanted to add that the thing I like most is you can order space ice creams with your Intergalactic T-shirt. Such a wonderful idea. Who wouldn’t love some space ice cream after opening up the package containing your new tee? Unless there is a person in the world that is devoid of a little Homer Simpson inside of them then no one wouldn’t love some space...
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More things journalism can learn from porn →
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What the journalism industry can learn from porn →
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Happy Hottest 100 Day...sorry Australia Day
I always seem to spend January 26 by myself.
During Uni because I was the worst student ever I was always doing courses over summer and since I’ve been working I seem to find myself not ever doing anything with friends.
This year I’m alone in a city I love but am not in love with. I usually visit and enjoy it in small bursts but have been here too long for my liking.
Even though it...
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Legally download Paul Kelly's music for free →
I’ve talked about this on the radio a couple of times and elsewhere online but haven’t plugged it here on the old personal blog. Australian musician Paul Kelly is releasing special live recordings of his songs over the next 26 months. Each month he will allow you to download his songs alphabetically. Being January, you can now download the ‘A’ songs which will only be...
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Oh relax
It’s an experiment.
It is more than a little amusing that someone who provides snarky commentary on celebrities she doesn’t know is righteously indignant when the words are focused on her.
— Reblogging Julia accurately replying to Julia Allison when she got the sads over Ms. Baugher’s stalkerish yet hilarious work. I’ve been unfollowed from JA for 3 weeks now but you...
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Barack Obama's 26-year-old head speechwriter →
Fucking overachiever.
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Steve Jobs
Passion Jumps the Shark →
“Passion” has become so popular it’s come to mean its opposite – it no longer telegraphs a robust, compelling enthusiasm, but instead it’s a lazy-man’s-out, a word to describe a feeling instead of the feeling itself.
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“Swearing is funny and intelligent.”
– Me
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“Within the next five years, people will say, “Remember when ‘The...”
– Jakob Lodwick
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“I was laughing when we had the debate a couple days ago…. People were asked,...”
– Barack Obama (gracias Dan + Marco.org)
American People: Vote Obama. We all hate workmates that say their biggest weakness is that they care too much or work too hard . A vote for Barack Obama is a vote against conceited responses to this question in job interviews or annual reviews. I know you will...
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Does it matter if Starbucks sucks? →
The fundamental problem with Starbucks is that, bottomline, their coffee is beyond awful. You probably couldnt even call it coffee to be honest. It’s more like a bland tasting - burnt if you’re lucky - brown water. When a run of the mill instant coffee tastes better you know you’ve got problems.
Yet people flock to it. Why? That’s the part i don’t get. Especially...
I might puke on a child.
Tomorrow is my first day volunteering at Miami Children’s Hospital and I can honestly say I haven’t been this nervous in years. Decades even. I’ve been trying to watch a movie to get my mind off of it but I can’t even concentrate.
I’m a ‘Bedside Buddy.’ So I go to the kids rooms and play games, do arts and crafts, read books, etc etc. I’m scared...
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It's not you, it's me
Tumblr is the magical happy land of the internet. Why? Because it seriously rocks. It is like a supergeek has combined smoking, coffee, cocaine and a casino all into a blogging platform. But. Yesterday I was away from the web for 24 hours. When I plugged back into the matrix, I was forced to read 64 pages of updates in my dashboard. This morning when I woke up, I had to go through another 30 pages...
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On being Australian
Last Australia Day, the man sitting in front of me on the bus peed on my foot whilst singing songs about how he loved fucking and ranting about how Asians didn’t know the true meaning of the holiday.
As you might imagine, I’m not exactly a patriot.
And yet, I’ve been asked to write a column for a certain Melbourne paper about what being Australian means to my peers. I could...
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iMooch →
An evil version of Tumblr. I’m guessing marketing people dreamed this up.
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“How can someone who’s so socially awkward make a social networking site?”
– Amy on Zuck’s 60 Minutes segment
via David
Wouldn’t that be why he created a social networking web site? Have a profile that makes himself look cool and a system to meet girls. There is no way a confident 19 year old guy living the American college dream at frat parties etc. is...
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Get to the Fucking Point
Whenever I think about writing the next great American novel, I always have titles pop into my head before plot. I don’t really know what that is, other than that I like clever titles. For a few years, the title that I have had in my head has been: Price Upon Request. Perhaps, Get to the Fucking Point wouldn’t be too bad.
— via iammiki
The movie The Usual Suspects started off with...
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Stephen Fry on social networking →
For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago? Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take an organism as open and wild and free as the internet, and wish then to divide it into citadels, into closed-border republics and independent city states?
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“It’s like my heart is trying to hug my brain.”
– reblogged via desaturated who quotes some guy named Kenneth on my party drug of choice, caffeine.
TED 2008 →
Announced today. Like most internet dwelling people, I would love to attend this conference. Found via swissmiss.
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'Weekend at Bernies' is over
From: NEWS.com.au January 09, 2008
TWO men have been arrested after allegedly pushing the body of a dead friend through the streets of Manhattan in an office chair to try to get his social security cheque cashed.
David Dalaia and James O’Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron’s body from the apartment Mr O’Hare and Mr Cintron shared about a block away to Pay-O-Matic, a...
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Why I Write by George Orwell →
Orwell lists four “great motives for writing”: sheer egoism—the desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood (“It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive, and a strong one”)—aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose. “By nature —...
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How much publicity do you think I would get if I ran on a platform of “true” representative democracy, ie if I was elected President, I would work with top notch computer security dudes to set up a website where everyone could vote each time I had to make a decision.
It would have to have *major* voter fraud detection, and there are still some people who don’t have Internet...
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“This little magic box right here, it reads my thoughts and lays them on the...”
– In a conversation with the control room about the absence of text in the teleprompters, Stephen Colbert expressed an alternate view of how the technology works.
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Top 10 Drunk American Writers →
via A shot of JD
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I could live in an IKEA store...
Mark Malkoff’s NYC apartment had to be fumigated. All of his friends have tiny studio apartments. Hotels in New York are insanely expensive. Left with few living options, Mark thought it would be fun and make an interesting video to move into an IKEA store where he’d live and sleep for a week. Never in a million years did he think IKEA would go for it, but miraculously they have a...
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I'm Soooo Important
I’d like to say that I don’t care how many people follow me, but I’d be lying. I check religiously. I’m currently on a 36:8 ratio of Following:Followed. And of the people that follow me, I don’t know any of them from the real world, or in fact from outside Tumblr. It’s like I’ve moved to a new city and managed to make a few friends, who are in turn introducing me to their friends.
— gooneruk
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“The good old days are yet to happen.”
– Seth Godin
via Vertigo + Jakob
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“Customers in a buzzing St Kilda cafe have been banned from talking about...”
– via soxiam + Leader News - Melbourne, Australia
hahahahahahaha
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30 Storey Vertical Eco Farm in Las Vegas →
via Kwoff
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Overused Words and Phrases to Banish in 2008 →
Although a softcore logophile, the Word of the Year lists being published by dictionaries have started to annoy me.
After Stephen Colbert’s Truthiness took it out a few years ago it has all been down hill. Like, what’s the point? You could never top that word and everything it means. Never.
Though I have found an annual list of words I can appreciate.
Lake Superior State University...
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Apple stores are the best →
Unable to afford a computer, Ms. Jade, 25, began cadging time on a laptop at the Apple store in the SoHo section of Manhattan. Ms. Jade spent hours at a stretch standing in a discreet corner of the store, typing. Within a few months, she had written nearly 300 pages.
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Why beauty and success go hand in hand →
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Fame
I think if someone reaches a certain level of fame, they should be required to pose naked for a public photograph. Then we wouldn’t be so obsessed.
—via noyb25 + didyouevernotice
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