December 2007
24 posts
“Right now I hate paying taxes because I feel like I’m giving money to a...”
– mark cuban
“Advertising is a tax you pay for unremarkable thinking.”
– Robert Stevens quoted in this article. This reminds me of Dave Winer’s statement that “Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.” I agree (with Winer, I’m not sure Stevens’ remark is generally true,...
“Nah…not at all, not at all, I don’t make statements, I make moves.”
– Lil Wayne, when asked: “Is there a statement you’re trying to make with the album?” found in the interview outakes from complex magazine.
“However, the various intelligence models, present in classical artificial...”
– a spam email for an online degree program. wow.
@punkwithgun, oh… boohoo. that pizza sounds awesome, it just needs some peperoncino to make it perfect.
diplo's pitchfork mix →
since we’re on mixtapes… this diplo mix is super. i love the mia track, paper planes.
Watchone of the more unfortunate facts of my life is that i’ve still not learned to breakdance.
“It is one thing to work with color and sounds,” Sartre writes, “another to...”
“The images are so striking, so vivid and yet so disorienting, that it hardly...”
– Christopher R. Beha on John Hawkes in the Believer
““I’m sorry,” an undergraduate stammered in the first...”
– Richard Rorty - quoted by Virginia Heffernan in slate.
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“The point is not to abandon reason, but to face up to what reason has become for...”
– Simon Critchley in the believer
a fun game?
occasionally i really want to hear english spoken, so i passively watch downloaded television programs in the background (heroes, 24, the hills!!!!) while i’m doing something else, like writing or drawing or cooking. sometimes i glance up to see what the on-screen action is and 7 out of 10 times it’s a pretty predictable scene given the dialogue or narration. which makes me wonder two...
“Is this the long-term historical irony of humanism – with its museums and...”
– geoff manaugh on the power consumption of internet servers and the human propensity to archive everything, on bldblg.
Watchregardless of whether you watch 24 or not, this is pretty hilarious.
haha - the caltech basketball team. →
