I'm more interested in the new Amazon Kindle Nano: a $12, single-title device printed on "paper."
@scottsimpson (Scott Simpson) – 40
In the post economic meltdown world, I will rely heavily upon faith and hope. Which is what I have named my biceps.
@badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 39
The price of oil is so low it would be silly not to put in an anti-zombie fire trench around your home.
@badbanana (Tim Siedell) – 38
I am making the face that overeducated people make when they realize after eight tries that the stapler is not broken, but simply empty.
@Tony_D (Tony Delgrosso) – 38
my cat just got amazed when my computer ejected a cd. when were you born cat? 1997?
oh, 2005. sorry, i'll show you how it works.
@baileygenine (Bailey Siewert) – 37
I kissed a girl and wound up with a mortgage, 2 kids, and a terrier with a napoleon complex. None of which tastes like cherry chapstick.
@joeschmidt (Joe Schmidt) – 36
I stand with one foot rooted firmly in the past, and one foot reaching out to the future. This is so I can teabag the present.
@mogrify (Tony Gambone) – 35
Seriously though, a mall massage gets awkward fast if you thank the little Asian man when he tells you how tight you are.
@hoosiergirl (hoosiergirl) – 34
With Obama now in power, the Republican Party has found its voice.
Oddly, it's the same voice my preschooler uses when we make her shampoo.
@adamisacson (Adam Isacson) – 34
I worry when humans go extinct, the other extinct species will beat the crap out of us in Heaven.
@sween (Jason Sweeney) – 33
Journalists are now quoting MySpace pages.
Edward R. Murrow just rolled over in his grave to say: "Good night. Good luck. And fuck you."
@TBMimsTheThird (cwthethird) – 31
Is it just me or has Michael Cera has set up an entire generation of passive-aggressive nerds for a world of disappointment?
@sween (Jason Sweeney) – 31
The mall kiosk masseuse mostly rubbed my ass, but he must know what he's doing since he was wearing a Foot Locker jersey & didn't charge me.
@hoosiergirl (hoosiergirl) – 30
Sometimes dreams do come true. Like that dream where I'm at work, naked, giving a PowerPoint on my cat. Anyway, here's Mr. Meow in a bonnet!
@fireland (Joshua Allen) – 29
It’s clear to me (with a few years under my belt of posting to The Feature) that the simple act of passing along a link or nugget of information really isn’t particularly valuable. Someone that’s good at it can gain a reputation and a substantial following, as Popova has, but the discrete acts that contribute to that reputation aren’t that valuable on their own. Whenever I’ve seen something that literally adds value to its source material by transforming it in someway before passing it along (be it an essay, a mashup, a piece of art, or, sure, a gif) it seems to me that its creative forefathers are consistently well-credited. Is it maybe the case that just passing it on isn’t an act loaded with creative authorship at all?
I'm not at all sympathetic to the backlash against the use of the term "curation" in the blogosphere, but I do find Nostritch's take down of Maria Popova's "Curator's Code" compelling.
It's good journalism and scholarship to credit the original source of content, and good etiquette where practical to credit who sent you there. But blog links are not valuable artifacts with storied histories. Documenting their provenance doesn't really require more than the first and last link in the chain--and the last isn't as important as the first.
nostrich replied to your post: So I reported the dashboard photo EXIF bug that...
Tumblr’s support operates the same way call center tech support does: going through a dumb script that ostensibly addresses the most common issues. Which is to say, terribly and stupidly.
Yeah, I know. When people with queue problems above the normal have been asked to change theme then you'd assume it's pretty bad. But this? It's a website, there's a bug and I provided info on how and when it appears. Reboot? I just... No. Some fucking relevance is all I ask. Just some small tiny ickle relevance. Or you know, pass it along to people who work with that part of the site instead of trying to "fix" it by pointing at other directions that has nothing to do with it.
GorillaJetpackAttack - Bucky Done Sun Here's a great chilled out mashup of MIA's (who's living up to what the acronym typically stands for, of late) "Bucky Done Gun" by GorillaJetpackAttack, a DJ on the Gold Coast. This turned up in Tuneage's inbox, and I don't know much else about it or the producer, but he claims to be working on an EP, and if it's more like this, it might be worth looking out for. -- nostrich
