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Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:46:01 -0400

"I’m right more often than I’m wrong, but I’m not wrong infrequently."

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:16:22 -0400

“I’m right more often than I’m wrong, but I’m not wrong infrequently.”

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Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:36:41 -0500

MBTA Aural Geography

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:34:00 -0500

While riding the T yesterday I had this idea for a project when the, assumably, automatic recording came on to inform me I was pulling into Harvard Station, although since I was on the T it would then stop in the tunnel, wait for five minutes, and then travel the only one-hundred more feet to the actual platform.

This announcement reminded me of the heraldic one I heard before the train arrived at my boarding station telling me the that this same Alewife bound train was approaching. I wondered if they are somehow triggered at the same time and what that might sound like if I could be both where I was and where I was going to hear about both ends of my trip. At that moment I was being made to think about the geography of my trip by these two announcements. I figured that even if the ‘pulling into the station’ announcement and that station’s ‘train approaching’ announcement are not triggered by the same event, they must overlap at least sometime.

There are 125 stations in the Boston subway system and I’d like to create an aural map of (under-served) Boston, a map of geography and time, by recording all of these announcements throughout the day (minus the “This is Dan Garbageface, stay vigilant, bitch.”). My hope is that with trains arriving every 4-20 minutes I’ll arrive at something with a narrative, musical feel and not a (too) jumbled mess. On the other hand I wonder what the potential wide open portions might feel like.

ubuwaits: Lou Barlow’s page for Elliott Smith.

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:38:19 -0500

ubuwaits:

Lou Barlow’s page for Elliott Smith.

love this thing.

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:13:00 -0500

love this thing.

My new calendar. Enormous Wood Type Calendar 2011 from...

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:24:06 -0500

My new calendar. Enormous Wood Type Calendar 2011 from Catchpenny Press.

love it. love it. love it. moderation: 122782: fluctuat: Bill...

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:38:34 -0500

love it. love it. love it.

moderation:

122782:

fluctuat:

Bill Maher’s Christmas Message for Oprah

Love Bill Maher

Love him or hate him, Bill Maher has an absolute valued point.

"Think about the best restaurant meal you’ve ever eaten. Who should you thank for producing that..."

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:28:26 -0500

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Think about the best restaurant meal you’ve ever eaten. Who should you thank for producing that experience? The master chef who perfected the recipe, the production chef who prepared your meal, the waiter/waitress who took care of you, the farmers who raised the ingredients, and even (though you probably never think about this) the cleaning staff. You might also thank the owner, who in a small restaurant was probably one or more of the people I’ve already listed.

But none of those people — probably not even the owner, the “small businessman” that conservative rhetoric idolizes — is making much money. None of them approach the wealth of Open Table’s founders, or even of the investment banker who managed Open Table’s IPO, or the speculators who have run up its stock price.

”

- Doug Muder, The Weekly Sift (via kevin)

"The posthuman is merely the subhuman that results whenever people aspire to the superhuman."

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:59:04 -0400

“The posthuman is merely the subhuman that results whenever people aspire to the superhuman.”

- Garret Keizer, ’Why dogs go after mail carriers”, Harpers September 2010.

ubuwaits: Who's interested in startups in the humanities?

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:38:14 -0400

ubuwaits: Who's interested in startups in the humanities?:

On any given day, a quick glance at Techcrunch will be proof enough that a large number of entrepreneurs are eager to replicate the success of sites like Twitter, Foursquare, and Groupon by copying their business models and making slight alterations. Not that there is anything wrong with that….

Pretty Sweet

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:53:46 -0400

Pretty Sweet:

Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures

I consider this a failure for the lack of home button and because it doesn't function as a dock, lazy.

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:13:51 -0400

I consider this a failure for the lack of home button and because it doesn't function as a dock, lazy.

This is interesting

Wed, 19 May 2010 19:17:39 -0400

This is interesting:

The new Google WebFont API.

These have been everywhere I look lately. They are amazing. I...

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:09:00 -0400

These have been everywhere I look lately. They are amazing. I can’t wait to steal color palettes from these.

Just caught this poster of some folks I know(ish). Beautiful....

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:44:31 -0400

Just caught this poster of some folks I know(ish). Beautiful. Looks like how they sound.

I’m still not sure what that lunch was they gave me, but it was good.

Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He...

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:38:20 -0400

Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.

Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.

There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will last forever

A thing that I need to build.

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:44:00 -0400

A thing that I need to build.

"[Design] is not a 10-step recipe for creating a “Super-Awesome Laser Beam Effect."

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:39:00 -0400

“[Design] is not a 10-step recipe for creating a “Super-Awesome Laser Beam Effect.””

cabeza con agua, maximo pedraza

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:13:00 -0400

cabeza con agua, maximo pedraza