February 2008
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Feb 28th
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“So I’ll tell you now: bad shit is coming. It always is in a startup. The...”
–  Paul Graham via Texas Startup Blog
Feb 28th
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“Dial-up! It’s like being blind.”
– Max Barry
Feb 28th
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Continuous partial attention is a sick joke
Tools like Twitter or Instant Messaging that feed of this type of theory are just blackholes of distractive unproductivity.
Feb 27th
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“Whatever you do, whether you are a circus clown or whatever, do it with...”
– Frank
Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Aid Concert Aid →
Studies have shown that charities spend an average of $1.33 for every $1 they make at benefits (according to some website). Every five seconds an aid concert plunges into debt, and Bob Geldof isn’t made of money. But don’t sponsor a child just yet, Hooray for Everything are here to help…by putting on an aid concert…for failed aid concerts! Through the magical powers of music, Aid Concert Aid will...
Feb 25th
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“He healed my leprosy.”
– Jon Stewart joking about Barack Obama on Larry King Live last night.
Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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“Be who you are and say how you feel, because the people who matter don’t mind...”
– Dr Seuss (reblogged via affremblequotes + butterflyeffect)
Feb 19th
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How to Defend Your Coffee Addiction  →
Surely it would be easier to scream highly offensive rainbow mouthed words at anti-coffee snobs instead of this rational and reasoned defense?
Feb 19th
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25 Things Some Guy Has Learned About Journalism →
I like these points bestest: #1 There is no such thing as a small story, only small thinking. #14 Nothing beats an old fashioned pen and notepad. #18 THE INTERNET WILL BE THE DEATH OF MEDIA AS WE KNOW IT!!! (okay not really). #21 There is no such thing as “unbiased.” #22 It’s better to get off the phone and out of the office. #23 A deadline web project will always take two...
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Person who will only sleep with other Mac users →
“I’ve never knowingly slept with a Windows users … that would never, ever happen.” Violet Blue I’ll only fuck girls who own a Mac Pro with dual displays, a Macbook Air and an iPhone. I know that people have to have standards but nowdays being a Apple user has such a low barrier to entry. Everyone seems to have at least one Mac product. A few years ago when they...
Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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...more on Pretty vs Smart
In reply to miss-r who replied to gauntlet: The “treat the smart girls like they are pretty and the pretty girls like they are smart” quote blew my mind more in the media/marketing context in which Chartreuse used it as as metaphor. But it does work in an interpersonal way when you apply it more by just noticing something about people that they’re not recognised for and taking an interest...
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“As long as it’s something you give a crap about, and you’re passionate about...”
– Justin Johnson via extraview via ianbroyles.
Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Pretty vs Smart
These posts by juliaallison, alexklaff and miss-r are similar to what Chartreuse (the guy who awakened me to what is now my driving purpose - Stop being so fucking pedestrian) wrote in a blog post back in 2006 titled Nick Denton, Oprah Winfrey And The Art Of Getting Laid: Treat the smart girls like they are pretty and the pretty girls like they are smart. At the time I commented You are now...
Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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'Aussie Cheese Fries' The Worst Food in America →
Courtesy of Outback Steakhouse. The thing I love most about this is there are no such things as ‘Aussie Cheese Fries’ here in Australia. You have to love the authenticity of themed restaurants.
Feb 11th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (reblogged via bianca)
Feb 7th
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National Cuddle Day in Australia →
I really think I should have a cuddle party. Wouldn’t be creepy at all. UPDATE! Cuddle Parties are real. Holy smokes. I thought I was just being hilarious. According to Wikipedia: A Cuddle Party is an event designed with the intention of allowing people to experience non-sexual group physical intimacy through cuddling. Cuddle Parties are described by organizers as...
Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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I wish I could buy someone's vote on eBay (or why...
I’m an Australian living in Australia and therefore because of some absurd logic can not vote in the American Presidential Primaries. Yet I have more consciousness and affinity with this process than I did with the recent election here in my own country. I would be comfortable voting in Louisiana (went to school in a tiny town in Louisiana called Linville for a year when I was 5),...
Feb 5th
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“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the...”
– Nelson Mandela (reblogged via alexamayiborrowyourpencil + confessions)
Feb 4th
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BBC blog makes me hate the intermaweb (or why the... →
How To Say: “Web 2.0”? Really? I need to write an entire blog post? Ok. The correct way to pronounce the unword which describes the deluded self-important insular wankfest tech industry that is desperately seeking relevance while it endlessly pontificates that others don’t get whatever it is we get so acutely should be done thus: w-2. Get it right next time. You’re...
Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Better Than Free - rules for media companies to... →
When reading this article I actualy came up with the most fan-fucking-tastic idea. I love that about the web. Being exposed to so much exceptional missives creates an atmosphere that gets the grey matter pumping and the heart excited. Found the article via Phil Morle.
Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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Superuse.org →
Online community of designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in inventive ways of recycling. Found via the perpetually outstanding and impossibly rad weekly email newsletter FourThousand.
Feb 2nd
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Horoscopes Coincidence
On Friday night I watched Dead Poets Society. I always list it as my favourite film even though I had only seen it once in 1992 during the last week of Grade 7. I now remember why. Such an incredible film. I really needed a ‘Seize the Day’ style kick up the arse considering ‘tis Febualready yet very few of my 437 plans have been completed. This afternoon while reading The...
Feb 2nd
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“Think Outside the Box” - This is a classic example of unintended...”
– Cecil Donahue - GQ Magazine (reblogged via davidtrawin)
Feb 1st
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Real Sex Tantalizes as Processed Porn Gets Boring →
In the early days of the internet, anal sex was risqué, and straight people pretended they’d never looked at gay porn. By now, we’ve all seen the wall-to-wall, triple-penetration, all-natural, ass-to-mouth MILF scenes. Hell, by now, we all know what two girls can do with one cup.
Feb 1st
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An Alex Lloyd question for Aussies...
butterflyeffect said… Whatever happened to Alex Lloyd? I’m no great fan and he was flogged to death on the radio, but I just heard “Green” and I started to wonder…. I thought he was supposed to be the next big thing? That was a long time ago. He was the next big thing back when I remember him doing a weekly segment as Lloydy from Lloydy’s Used Cars Sales...
Feb 1st