February 2012
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“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when...”
– Letters of Note: To My Old Master
“Stripe’s aim, the cofounders agree, is to make accepting payments online...”
– Don’t be teasing us.
Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk | Fast Company
January 2012
“It isn’t just about a little comment of 140 characters, it’s much...”
– David Hockney: ‘I followed reaction to my show on Twitter’ | Culture | guardian.co.uk
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
“Even if it tanks our traffic, we are going to keep digging and digging and...”
– Killing. It.
Page Rage Escalates As Google Cancels Twitter Android Meeting | PandoDaily
“You say it is a choice to be gay; do you mean to say you had feelings for women...”
– [Insert pun about tennis, something like “game, set, match” will do]
Don’t deny us same-sex marriage laws, says Martina Navratilova | Herald Sun
WatchIf you don’t listen/watch anything else Triple J produce this year, you have to watch this.
triplej:
The first Aussie Like A Version for the year, supplied by Matt Corby. He took on The Black Key’s ‘Lonely Boy’ and the results are stunning.
“never intended as an attack on the gay and lesbian community but rather a plea...”
– Reblogged without comment, although I’m not sure what offends me more, the obvious blatant homophobia, or the effect this has on regular Christians.
Hatred stuns tennis great Margaret Court | Herald Sun
“on the iPad, you simply click on “view video” and up comes our professor, Dr....”
– Algebra, Meet the iPad: A Year-Long Study Explores Learning With the Tablet | MindShift
Creepy Apple License Agreement for iBooks →
elomis:
learntoofly:
“Apple is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its software’s output. It’s akin to Microsoft trying to restrict what people can do with Word documents, or Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can’t freely sell it to Getty. As far as I know, in the consumer software industry, this practice is unprecedented.”
“The nightmare scenario...
“Digital transformation of [your industry] is inevitable.
Here’s our plan;...”
– Apple’s business plan for the last 10 years in three sentences.
Daring Fireball: Regarding the Scope of Apple’s Education Initiative
“Because I’m young enough to be all pissed off
But I’m old enough to be jaded...”
– I mean really, how can you not love Frank Turner
“Once, We Were Anarchists” from “Sleep Is For The Week” (2007)
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“You know, if you don’t want to run again, I respect that. But if you...”
– Mrs Landingham - “Two Cathedrals” The West Wing
If there’s ever been a single hour of scripted television in history that’s better than this, I haven’t seen it.
RIP the GPAs of all the students who have to turn...
“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult...”
– “I’ve been to the mountaintop”| Martin Luther King speech
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“18th and Potomac” The West Wing
Paul Hacket: Is the water over your head?
C.J.: No. The water is exactly at my head.
“Money equals speech. Therefore the more money you have, the more you can speak....”
– I swear TDS and Colbert amp up another 9000 gears during election years.
Colbert: ‘The more money you have, the more you can speak’ | The Raw Story
“I still believe
now who’d have thought
that after all
something as...”
– Internet. I’m disappointed with you all. Why have you not told me about Frank Turner before now?
I Still Believe - Frank Turner
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"17 People" West Wing
Josh: I'm just saying that if you were in an accident, I wouldn't stop for a beer.
Donna: If you were in an accident I wouldn't stop for red lights,
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“There has been a time in the evolution of everything that works when it...”
– Leo McGarry
“The Drop In” – West Wing
“Take me to the place where you go
where nobody knows
if it’s night or...”
– 15 years later. Still one of the greatest English rock albums.
“Don’t Look Back In Anger” by Oasis from (What’s The Story?) Morning Glory (1997)
Blue Ivy Carter youngest ever on the Billboard... →
shortformblog:
brooklynmutt:
“Glory,” the Jay-Z track released two days after the birth of daughter Blue Ivy Carter, has debuted at number 74 on Billboard’s chart of the top 100 R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the country.
Because the song is credited to “Jay-Z, featuring B.I.C” and includes baby Carter cooing just a few minutes after birth, this makes Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter the youngest...
“I imagine tuning all the television sets to hardcore gay porn, just to see the...”
– God this is brilliant. CES is the product of the dark side of Vegas, in only that special way Vegas can produce something so empty, but yet so seductive.
Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
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“This guy’s walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so...”
– Leo McGarry – Noël The West Wing 2000
“[A Study] found that, as the official number of cases increased and decreased,...”
– Twitter data accurately tracked Haiti cholera outbreak : Nature News & Comment
“Good ideas usually come from the collision of smaller hunches”
– Steve Johnson - on where good ideas come from
“Genius, so that best design, especially gorgeous, furthermore Apple will only...”
– Trollem Ipsum
“Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most...”
– Seigler’s finally getting Tumblr, it had a Potter reference
parislemon: Why I Hate Android
The Cult of Amazon Prime →
I covet Amazon Prime like little else
GLORY feat. B.I.C | Life + Times →