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Thu, 23 May 2013 16:47:59 -0400

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"Starting a company that makes a product people love and has no revenue model and then selling that..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:29:18 -0400

“Starting a company that makes a product people love and has no revenue model and then selling that company for a billion dollars to a larger tech company and then letting the new owner take the fall when it’s inevitably either “ruined” or killed is the Silicon Valley dream.”

- Yahoo, Flickr, and Instagram: The myth of the lost opportunity.

Dandelion

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:44:34 -0400

Dandelion

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Mon, 13 May 2013 10:51:04 -0400

"I don’t think I fully understood the theme."

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:46:26 -0400

“I don’t think I fully understood the theme.”

- Kate Upton on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Punk: From Chaos To Couture” gala.

Honesty is the best policy.

(via if charlie parker was a gunslinger,there’d be a whole...

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:22:32 -0400

(via if charlie parker was a gunslinger,there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats: Specters of the Spectrum #1)

“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:46:00 -0400

“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead give away.”

Hero of the day.

(via Questlove)

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Fri, 03 May 2013 08:57:00 -0400

"Those who hold wrong opinions are not therefore wicked or dim. Our attempts to persuade almost..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:44:00 -0400

“Those who hold wrong opinions are not therefore wicked or dim. Our attempts to persuade almost always fail, and the temptation to account for this failure in terms of the stupidity or immorality of others is with us always. A culture’s ability consistently to resist this temptation is perhaps the first virtue of public deliberation. The inability to resist it indicates a failure of sympathy and imagination, which is its own sort of stupidity and immorality. Indeed, the tendency to think the worst of those with whom we disagree is a failure of engagement in a different sense. It is a failure to empathise, to try to feel what it’s like from the inside of other minds, other histories, other lives.”

- Will Wilkinson, Fiscal policy and disagreement: Too much engagement, or not enough?

My Projecto arrived today! Tiny!

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:02:11 -0400

My Projecto arrived today! Tiny!

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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:18:34 -0400

100percentmen: Every Daft Punk collaborator ever.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:27:09 -0400

100percentmen:

Every Daft Punk collaborator ever.

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:16:57 -0400

"The term bourgeois I use following Flaubert, not Marx. Bourgeois in Flaubert’s sense is a..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:22:10 -0400

“The term bourgeois I use following Flaubert, not Marx. Bourgeois in Flaubert’s sense is a state of mind, not a state of pocket. A bourgeois is a smug philistine, a dignified vulgarian. … The character I have in view when I say “smug vulgarian” is, thus, not the part-time philistine, but the total type, the genteel bourgeois, the complete universal product of triteness and mediocrity. He is the conformist, the man who conforms to his group, and he also is typified by something else: he is a pseudo-idealist, he is pseudo-compassionate, he is pseudo-wise.”

- Vladimir Nabokov, “Philistines and Philistinism,”

"[T]his type of analysis skirts over the stark fact that the original U.K. punk explosion was borne..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:48:07 -0400

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[T]his type of analysis skirts over the stark fact that the original U.K. punk explosion was borne out of frustration not over Thatcher and her free-market policies but out of decades of state expansion over every aspect of life in the Sceptered Isle.

The punk movement kicked into gear well before Thatcher became prime minister in 1979. The first wave of punk had crested by the time she darkened the door at 10 Downing Street (indeed, the Sex Pistols had gone completely kerblooey by then, and the best days of bands such as the Buzzcocks and the Damned were behind them by the time Maggie and Dennis moved in).

It’s far more accurate to argue that Thatcher was herself an emanation of punk, as some anti-Thatcherites have grudgingly done. She in no way came from the working classes, but as the daughter of a mere shopkeeper and and as a woman, she was transgressing the established order just as much in her own way as Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex (another punk band whose glory days were over by the time Thatcher arrived) or the swastika-sporting Siouxsie Sioux ever did. Or for that matter, Joe Strummer, the son of a diplomat.

”

- Was Margaret Thatcher Really Responsible for *Every* Song in ’80s Britpop? And If So, Don’t We Owe Her Big Time? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

40th-ish and Haverford.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:30:13 -0400

40th-ish and Haverford.

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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:20:29 -0400

A selection of punk albums, predating the terms of Thatcher and Reagan

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:53:00 -0400

Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash: The Clash; London Calling
The Damned: Damned, Damned, Damned; Music for Pleasure
Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Scream
Ramones: Ramones; Leave Home; Rocket to Russia; Road to Ruin
Talking Heads: Talking Heads: 77; More Songs About Buildings and Food
Buzzcocks: Another Music in a Different Kitchen; Love Bites
The Stranglers: Rattus Norvegicus; No More Heroes; Black and White
X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents
Generation X: Generation X
The Jam: In the City; This Is the Modern World; All Mod Cons

Spring has brought out all the fun graffiti.

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:54:52 -0400

Spring has brought out all the fun graffiti.

Afternoon.

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:43:41 -0400

Afternoon.