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Salad Onions: Eleven very short stories about SXSW →
saladonions:
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“It’s just like every great empire, y’know what I’m sayin?”. The driver paused to honk his horn again at a cloud of content strategists. “Egypt, Rome, you Brits - they get decadent and then they fall. Same with south-by.” He pulled to a stop in front of the SoBe Lizard Lounge. “Y’all have a…
February 2011
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“YouTubes are infallible.”
– Texas state rep. Leo Berman explaining to Reeve Hamilton why he suspects the President of the United States was not born in the United States. He saw it on YouTube, duh. (via motherjones)
Things that freak my brain, #191: Half of...
Imagine you have an infinite number of boxes, and each box contains one white marble and one black marble.
Half the marbles are white, which means that half of an infinite number are white. Half of infinity = infinity. But that particular version of infinity does not equal “everything,” because there’s another half of infinity (the black marbles). There is no number greater...
September 2010
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August 2010
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Vintage ads for modern web tech →
July 2010
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“I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me...”
– Laurie Anderson (via devilduck)
The Worst Celebrity Product Licenses of All Time →
Supremes Bread, Muhammad Ali shoe polish, and this carefully crafted Gabor gem.
June 2010
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The most perfect irony I have ever seen, via...
“You can always trust the Americans. In the end, they will do the right thing,...”
– Winston Churchill (via devilduck)
May 2010
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WatchIf you think BP is using “the latest techniques” to stop the oil spill, check out these reports from 1979.
It didn’t work then, either. That’s because oil companies don’t spend their R&D dollars on finding new ways to stop oil spills. They spend those dollars on finding new ways to become “the most profitable industry the universe has ever seen.”
What Is It Like To Be A Janitor At Disneyland? →
One of my favorite lines in this article about the empire of Mickey Mouse:
“dozens of feral cats… prowl the park after hours, stalking rodents.”
austinkleon:
negevrockcity:
One of the most unexpectedly fascinating articles I’ve read all year. Awesome.
Texas Senator Kirk Watson's Daring Tale of the... →
April 2010
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Integrating Social Media Conference rescheduled
The Center for Sustainable Journalism has rescheduled the Integrating Social Media Conference and the Social Media Bootcamps.
My new speaking schedule therefore is:
May 11, 2010: Social Media Success Summit, online
May 12, 2010: John Slatin Access U, Austin
June 14, 2010: TWTRCON NY 2010, New York
October 22, 2010: Social Media Bootcamp for Beginners, Atlanta
October 23, 2010: Integrating...
My 4yo son thinks housework is a martial art. This...
Me. Speaking.
Here’s where I’ll be over the next couple of months. The advantage of coming to see me speak at a conference is that, unlike on any other day, there is a set time at which I must stop talking. :)
May 7, 2010: Social Media Bootcamp for Beginners, Atlanta
May 8, 2010: Integrating Social Media Conference, Atlanta
May 11, 2010: Social Media Success Summit, online
May 12, 2010: John...
Opacity: Urban Ruins →
I have a deep love for photos of abandoned sites, such as these amazing photos from Japan. Now I’ve found a new site that features galleries of abandoned places: www.opacity.us. I could spend years there.
App-phabet
For months I had Facebook, Google, Tumblr, Pandora and Wikipedia sitting in a row on my iPhone — f, g, t, P and W. Naturally I wondered if there were enough apps with single-letter icons to create a whole alphabet. Why, yes, in fact, there are.
Presenting the App-phabet, a set of twenty-six iPhone apps that all feature a single uppercase letter.
For this little exercise I made a few arbitrary...
Abandoned Places: 10 Creepy, Beautiful Modern... →
Don’t you wish you had a skazillion bucks to buy and refurbish the German military hospital?
March 2010
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February 2010
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The only TV chef that influenced me.
fiveinchtaint:
chriseats:
Adam from Northern Exposure. I remember seeing him show up in random episodes when I would watch the show as a kid. From when Joel Fleishman gets stuck and finds a garlic press in the middle of nowhere, to the evolving relationship between Adam and Eve (his wife), I knew that this guy was something special. Here’s why:
-Even though he was in the backwoods of...