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Bret Victor on Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:38:18 -0400

Bret Victor on Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

http://finallyathoughtortwo.tumblr.com/

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:52:51 -0400

http://finallyathoughtortwo.tumblr.com/:

To my new followers, I actually post mainly to this tumblr.

merlin: Appreciating Donald Murray (a/k/a, “Quit trying to make pigs out of sausage.”) This...

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:21:27 -0500

merlin:

Appreciating Donald Murray

(a/k/a, “Quit trying to make pigs out of sausage.”)

This used copy of Writing for Your Readers cost me US$2.97 used on Amazon Marketplace. So, imagine my surprise yesterday, when it arrived and I opened it to discover it’s autographed by Don Murray. With a funny little self-portrait doodle and all!

Made my day. Plus, it seems like a good omen, right?

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"what is al-Qaeda" Vice magazine 94 issue too prescient

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:03:26 -0400

"what is al-Qaeda" Vice magazine 94 issue too prescient

infinitetumblr: “Finish or abandon all books, hobbies, and/or...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:26:19 -0400

infinitetumblr:

“Finish or abandon all books, hobbies, and/or relationships before June 21st, 2009 …”

Beautiful images created by HotCocoa::Graphics, new in MacRuby...

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:52:40 -0400

Beautiful images created by HotCocoa::Graphics, new in MacRuby 0.4

The video Jon Stewart used from last night that silenced Jim...

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:16:54 -0400

The video Jon Stewart used from last night that silenced Jim Cramer.

TheStreet.com’s home page this morning, with nay a mention...

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:13:14 -0400

TheStreet.com’s home page this morning, with nay a mention of the Jim Cramer v Jon Stewart showdown of the previous night.

"He loves creation as long as he is creating it, but his love turns away from the finished portions...."

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:21:16 -0500

“He loves creation as long as he is creating it, but his love turns away from the finished portions. For the artist must also love what is most hateful in order to shape it, but what he has already shaped, even if it is good, cools him off; it becomes so bereft of love that he hardly still understands himself in it, and the moment when his love returns to delight in what it has done are rare and unpredictable.”

- via themillions via The Man Without Qualities

Nerdapalooza

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:55:28 -0500

Nerdapalooza:

Nerdapalooza coming to Orlando this summer!

Me @IgniteOrlando last night building @TheStrawBridge, which...

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:37:39 -0500

Me @IgniteOrlando last night building @TheStrawBridge, which came in third place.

Elizabeth Gilbert TED Talk

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:30:18 -0500

Elizabeth Gilbert TED Talk:

Just show up to work, and let your muse do the rest. Great outlook at creating.

Never before seen interview with the creator of isit2009yet.com aka me

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:12:52 -0500

Someone Else: Q.
Me: Inspiration is a tricky subject, and one in which artists like myself find it a little difficult to discuss (mainly because I lack any semblance of self-awareness). I'd say I was most inspired by hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com mainly because I'm really interested in whether the earth has indeed been destroyed (since my physical form needs earth for sustenance).

Someone Else: Q.
ME: I wrote it on a Macbook Pro purchased specifically for creating isit2009yet.com. I figured if I was going to spending so much time working on this beautiful website I would need a workhorse computer (not to mention sexy).

Someone Else: Q.
ME: Well SE, that's an interesting question. I guess the world deserves an answer. Your probably thinking it was some technical glitch related to some bad leap year code, but it wasn't. Your probably thinking it was just a simple FAIL where some dude was going to manually update it at midnight local time but forgot to because he was at this really kick-ass party and it never crossed his mind, but it wasn't. No, it wasn't those things. It was a commentary on how dependent we've all become of technology, and especially these new "Single Serve Sites". I've never seen a "SSS" fail, and so I started relying on them for everything. Finding out about the election, whether it was, in fact, a tuesday, and confirming my suspicions that the world had not yet been destroyed. I found myself not able to make a decision unless there was an appropriate SSS that would help me out (which made things in the bedroom a bit awkward). Finally I had a wakeup call when my laptop broke and I accidently spent more than 3 hours away from the internet. I rediscovered the physical in those three hours, and by making isit2009yet.com fail so horribly, I hope that maybe I can pull a couple of more souls out from the fake and into the real.

Infinite Jest Tour of Boston - a set on Flickr

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:31:46 -0500

Infinite Jest Tour of Boston - a set on Flickr

I Dream in Malcolm Gladwell by Benjamin R. Cohen - The Morning News

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:16:01 -0500

I Dream in Malcolm Gladwell by Benjamin R. Cohen - The Morning News

StateStats

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:03:15 -0500

StateStats:

A tool to find correlations between google searches and other stats, such as VotedForBush and VotedForObama, using a correlation algorithm known as Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.

Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work. - Techmeme News

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:42:37 -0500

Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work. - Techmeme News:

As Gabe says, this is sorta a “no brainer”

The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize - NYTimes.com

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:42:11 -0500

The Screens Issue - If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - Winning the Netflix Prize - NYTimes.com

"the ideas that eventually become the shows we work months and months on sort of do that, one way or..."

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:16:50 -0500

“the ideas that eventually become the shows we work months and months on sort of do that, one way or another. at a certain point, they shove their way to the front of the line and wave. for me, that usually happens as a result of a kind of juxtaposition. on the one hand, you find a scientist or some other smarty who is exploring the world in an empirical left-brained sort of way…on the other hand, you find some dude who is just living their life, getting their coat on, walking out the door and yet somehow bumping into the very same thing that that scientist is studying. if you take the two kinds of stories, bump ‘em up against each other and they start to vibrate, then we know we’ve got a show we can build on.”

- Jad Abumrad from Radiolab the best radio show ever created explaining in a live Q&A at themornngnews.org how Radiolab shows come together.

"There are those nights when you think you should burn it all up and go back to the quieting hug of..."

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:03:48 -0500

“There are those nights when you think you should burn it all up and go back to the quieting hug of whatever-you-did-before. Faith in yourself, and in the world’s knack for finding good things, will keep you coding.”

- From Brent Simmons Advice for Indies explaining why faith actually plays a big role in being a successful independent software developer.