January 2011
18 posts
The Hot Spotters →
For a thirty-year-old with a fever, a twenty-minute visit to the doctor’s office may be just the thing. For a pedestrian hit by a minivan, there’s nowhere better than an emergency room. But these institutions are vastly inadequate for people with complex problems: the forty-year-old with drug and alcohol addiction; the eighty-four-year-old with advanced Alzheimer’s disease and a pneumonia; the...
Jan 30th
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Pitchfork: Sleigh Bells Tour With Neon Indian and... →
steller: yes Can’t wait to see sleigh bells live.
Jan 27th
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Two Roads To Courage
americandrink: Self-proclaimed champion arm wrestler and professional Bounty Hunter, Tyler Riewer, received an extraordinary gift from his friends. Yes, that’s a vintage suitcase inlaid with a bottle of Bulleit Bourbon and brass knuckles. The top of the case reads, Sack Up: Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. America, we can give better gifts.
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
WatchWatch
pitchfork: Playful sound and vision designer Matthew Irvine Brown recently created an ongoing project called “Music for Shuffle”. The concept is elegantly simple: a series of short, interlocking pieces of music that all seamlessly segue into each other, thus creating a unique song as they shuffle. Click play to watch a “Music for Shuffle” demo. The project is mentioned in Tom Ewing’s new...
Jan 24th
“hahaa, i have an interview at 3 for a duke student… i mean potential duke...”
– priorities, by jin soo (via mollybierman) Just did two alumni interviews today!
Jan 24th
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How Billionaires Rule Our Schools →
The cost of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year for a decade, has sufficed to define the national...
Jan 22nd
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Marco.org: Blast from the Past Link Day →
marco: Shawn Blanc’s Blast from the Past Link Day is a great idea. Here are some of my favorite past posts that I’ve written: What I expect Feature checklist dysfunction Hot zones How I write and time-manage The Grandparents Camera Very upset that Box Fan Blowout didn’t make the list!
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 11th
“We felt like were on to something, so, being math nerds, we put on sweatpants....”
– OK Trends - The Mathematics Of Beauty Christian Rudder does it again.
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Jan 7th
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via hannahletourneau)
Jan 4th
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8tracks: Audio Coffee - Week 1 →
A first attempt at creating the ultimate 10 songs to shower to. Suggestions appreciated - we will “vote off” a song or two each week, and replace them with something fresh. Tracklist Dropkick Murphys - I’m Shipping Up to Boston AC/DC - Hell’s bells Bright Eyes - Road to Joy The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun M.I.A. - Sunshowers The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa...
Jan 4th
“It seemed significant to me that on the way to the movie theater, while doing a...”
– NY Review of Books on the Social Network (via the best tech writing of 2010)
Jan 2nd
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“No one is in a hurry and everyone is cooler than you are. Welcome to Slow Jam...”
– Slow Jam Kroger, 1900 Old Spanish Trail - Nicknaming the Inner Loop Kroger Stores - Houston Restaurants and Dining - Eating Our Words (Houston Press) The Kroger stores in my hometown were known as KroJew (the one with a bagel bakery inside) and BroKro (the one that bordered the...
Jan 2nd