hypertexty

• 2010-01-15

  

  The ever-charming George Clooney whisked me away on a journey about love, connection, and the humanity and humility of ending things correctly.

  ★★★★★

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  Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that’s only one man’s opinion.

  — Melvin Fitting

• 2010-01-14

  

  dailymeh:

  Stairs, by Swedish architects Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom.

  Talk about a conversation piece, more like a trip and fall piece.

• 2010-01-12

  Everything Happens…

  1. Penny: But, you know... everything happens.
  2. Dr. Horrible: Don't say "for a reason".
  3. Penny: No, I'm just saying that everything happens.
  4. Dr. Horrible: Not to me.

• 2010-01-10

  Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.

  — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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  [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

  Jonathan Coulton’s old a capella group, The Yale Spizzwinks (?), recorded a cover of my favorite song of his, The Future Soon. What a delightful find in my Instapaper backlog.

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  nikf:

  Louis Mantia’s Boarding Pass Redesign.

  Taking the Twitter flight syntax and applying it to boarding pass design.

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  Garrett Murray’s hilarious review of the Nexus One for Uncrate in the style of his wonderful yet defunct Qwick Reviews.

• 2010-01-09

  

  jxnblk:

  I love this guy’s work. (via Frank Chimero)

  As do I, as do I.

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  Don't Be A Hero

  By all means, love what you do. Work hard. Get involved. But recognize when your level of involvement is actually doing harm. If you’re playing the hero, or if you have a hero on your team, it’s probably time for a serious talk with your coworkers and manager.

  Alex Payne’s carefully reasoned argument against the heroic all-nighter-pulling employee and their toxicity in teams.

• 2010-01-08

  

  By Peter Arkle (via swissmiss)

• 2010-01-07

  gregbiche asked: will you go to prom with me?

  Prom is over. Stop living in the past. Next time, ask before the dance.

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  gregbiche asked: Dear Matt,
  why is it, that, when i "geotag" an image on flickr, it almost always names the location/neighborhood something totally bogus? "Middle City East, Philadelphia" "Barclay Square, Lansdowne"

  Well, this seems to be a known problem. I think it has a lot to do with the complexities of Navteq’s data set. Knowing the super smart people at Flickr, I’m sure they’re aware of and are working on fixing this. Rest assured that if it’s right on the map, it’s right in the machine readable tags.

• 2010-01-06

  Ask me anything.

• 2010-01-04

  [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

  “Taxi Cab” is the second single from Vampire Weekend’s forthcoming album Contra, due out later this month.