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January 2012

1 post

December 2011

2 posts

November 2011

2 posts

September 2011

9 posts

August 2011

6 posts

The Decemberists play Eschaton in their latest music video. Except for one other attempt at dramatizing this scene from Infinite Jest, this is probably as close as we’ll ever get to seeing it filmed. Check out First Watch: The Decemberists, ‘Calamity Song’ : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR for more details on this video.

austinkleon: World of Class Warfare - The Poor’s Free Ride Is Over - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/18/11 This is simply The Daily Show at its best. Amazing. Dylan said, “The truth is just…a collage of pictures.” In the Daily Show’s case, The truth is just a collage of video…with commentary. Cory Doctorow: “I swear, I don’t know why they air The Daily Show at night: I love it first thing...

“In 2011, we’re far past the point where computer interfaces need to...”

– from John Siracusa’s incredibly detailed and helpful review of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion for Ars Technica. It takes a lot of time and effort to write such a comprehensive review like this, but the result is a fully realized and well-written piece of intelligent critical essay writing as good as any...

July 2011

2 posts

“Responsibility without conviction is weak, but it is sane. Conviction without...”

– http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/07/25/110725taco_talk_packer

June 2011

3 posts

“When you watch an event in real time, anything is possible. Someone could die....”

– Chuck Klosterman: Why the DVR robs sports of all of their drama - Grantland A brilliantly simple essay that, even though I rarely watch sports, puts into words something I’ve felt for a long time.

May 2011

1 post

“Everything is on fire, slow fire, and we are all less than a million breaths...”

– David Foster Wallace, “The Pale King”

October 2010

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September 2010

1 post

July 2010

1 post

May 2010

3 posts

April 2010

5 posts

“Life’s complicated. This is just Buddhism 101, really: the only way...”

– – Merlin Mann in conversation with Colin Marshall on The Marketplace of Ideas. This is just the kick-in-the-ass I need right now… Thanks, Merlin.

March 2010

4 posts

“Wallace annotated many of the books heavily: he underlined passages, made...”

– Infinite Possibilities: A first glimpse into David Foster Wallace’s library | Cultural Compass DFW’s full manuscript archive and personal library arrived at the Ransom Center at UT Austin. After spending last summer diving head first into Infinite Jest for the first time, I suddenly have a...

February 2010

13 posts

20 Nicknames for the Upstate Winter Storm of 2010

(as originally posted at twitter.com/davecameron) Blizzardocalypse Snowtwister Twisted Snowster Snow-nado, Snow-mado, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off-alypse SnowBandOfHorses Snizzowzzard My Shizzles (for Snoop Dog fans) Snow Is The Time For All Good Men-icane Snownicles of Blizzardia Snowtime At The Apollo-calypse Snow That’s What I Call Musicane Mel Gibson’s...

Great presentation of how Austin Kleon captured ideas from the recent TEDxAustin event. Be sure to check out the full story at his website, including scans of all the sticky note sketches: http://www.austinkleon.com/2010/02/22/tedxaustin-on-sticky-notes/ I’ve been a fan of Kleon’s notebook sketches for a while (check out his Flickr page) and I really like how he put together this...

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps at TED 2010 Effing Brilliant…