April 2012
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How to Build an Owl
by Kathleen Lynch Decide you must. Develop deep respect for feather, bone, claw. Place your trembling thumb where the heart will be: for one hundred hours watch so you will know where to put the first feather. Stay awake forever. When the bird takes shape gently pry open its beak and whisper into it: mouse. Let it go.
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“For at least five years, we’ve been working with the same operating logic...”
– The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic
Apr 23rd
Mystery company backed by James Cameron and Google... →
Apr 18th
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WatchWatch
The Elwins & Luke Lalonde (Born Ruffians) performing a cover of Beyonce’s “Countdown”
Apr 18th
“Look, I don’t think Google’s making us stupid. I don’t think Twitter’s the...”
– Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works (via chuckolsen) word. (via wreckandsalvage)
Apr 18th
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Twitter Engineering: Introducing the Innovator’s... →
“The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation without their permission. What’s more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold them to others,...
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“The basic plots of Western Literature depend on separation by distance –...”
– The Reader and Technology (via youmightfindyourself)
Apr 18th
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Growl Fork: Growl Notifications Free on Mac OS X... →
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Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What... →
by Michael Abrash
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“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, and...”
– Walker Evans (via bestmadeco)
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Jack Outside the Box →
by Josh Eells, NY Times “Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time”
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Matter: A journalism project from San Francisco. Seems promising.  A few comments: 1) The tagline: “We’re going to create stories that matter” (my emphasis) is a bad choice.  Good journalists don’t create stories.  They document them. 2) I think the payment model of 99 cents per story is an unimaginative approach in a medium that is so easy to redistribute (cmd-P >...
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Apr 5th
Clearing Away Debris
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How to Install TextMate Bundles From GitHub on OSX... →
Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
What Baseball Does to the Soul →
by Colum McCann “The subway journey out. The hustlers, the bustlers, the bored cops. The jostle at the turnstiles. Up the ramps. Through the shadows. The huge swell of diamond green. The crackle. The billboards. The slight air of the unreal. The guilt when standing for another nation’s national anthem. The hot dogs. The bad beer. The catcalls. Siddown. Shaddup. Fuhgeddaboudit. Learning...
Apr 2nd
“Someday perhaps I will go around carrying only a book, a change of clothes, a...”
– Max Shron answers the question “What would be your dream setup?” (via viafrank)
Apr 2nd
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“… It is especially by our “likes and dislikes” that we cut ourselves off from...”
– Lewis Hyde. The Lucky Find. Trickster Makes This World.  (via seeyoulateraggregator)
Apr 2nd
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