Brain, brain, the return of the brain!
Apr. 22nd, 2010 01:26 pm
- Five Tips For Making Ideas Happen
- An awesome article that discusses the bane of all creatives, the "project plateau," that place during the project where enthusiasm and energy for the project are lowest, and you're most vulnerable to an "Oooh, shiny!" moment with another project.
- Moon 8
- The complete Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, done on an NES. Mindboggling.
- Evil Witch added to the iPad logo.
- Awesome!
- Peaches Geldoff indulges in Debauchery.
- Okay, not news. Just silly. This is debauchery?
- Fuck the Foundries
- A rant about how the best typography houses price themselves out of the market, and why we shouldn't care at all.
- Can Atheists have a Sexual Morality?
- Most notable for the insight that if someone asks you this question, they've put "sexual" morality in a different box from "morality" in general, and you have to wonder why.
- John Stewart to Fox: "Go Fuck Yourselves!"
- With gospel choir as back-up.
- Lane Bryant's ad: Too Hot for TV
- Or brilliant viral marketing? Jesus, that woman is gorgeous. And she doesn't need a sammich!
- Good Show, Sir!
- A blog about the worst SF&F cover art one can find at a used bookstore. And there's a lot of it.
- Diversity is work.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates with a brilliant essay on the way we approach (or fail to approach) a truly diverse culture:
Diversity and tolerance are about attempting to understand people who are radically different from you, and saying to them you want their voice in the process. Tolerance isn't just a value you hold, so much as it's something you do repeatedly. It's uncomfortable. You fuck up. You go to parties where they play music that you don't know how to dance to. You go to restaurants where the food is difference. You go to neighborhoods, where no one speaks English. The whole time people on the outside are laughing at you. The people you're trying to understand get pissed at you, and call you racist, homophobe, bigot, sexist etc.
But they ultimately respect you for trying. And you get better. You pick up bits of a second language. You learn to like the food, to enjoy the music. And then one day you look up, and lo and behold, it seems like the whole world is dancing to that same music, eating that same food. - I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet
- Facebook announced this week a new API and a new ease-of-integration with all third-party websites, and the consequences of its decision might be thrilling or chilling.
Just as ten years from now it will be weird to own a computer that strays outside the walled gardens given to us by Apple and its competitors, it will be weird to have a website that doesn't share what it knows about its visitors with the social, semantic web. There will be something dark, and suspicious, about a person who wants that much privacy, and that much control over his or her hardware and digital presence. They'll be watching you more closely. After all, they'll have to, you aren't giving it up freely.
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