November 2009
48 posts
When honour is at stake, this vow I will make →
davidgillespie:
I’ve been thinking a lot about The Three Musketeers – my framework for business models which places them (perhaps overly simply, but simply none the less) into two baskets: All-For-One…
Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
Prospective client: Yes.
Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.
“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly...”
– Cormac McCarthy in the WSJ, via ★DF. (via langer) (via dayofthedreamweavers)
m-altruism:
At the end of it, what you gain is not just limited to those benefits of positive thinking. When you have developed the mindset of positive thinking, you will become, in a way, fearless. This fearlessness comes from knowing that no matter what happens in your life, no matter what life throws at you, you are able to face it and stay positive. The only fears that we ever have are from...
“This is what we do, humans. We tinker, and change, and endlessly imagine a more...”
– Ira Glass (via spaceminer) (via delayprocrastinate) (via wearethedigitalkids)
WatchThe future of User Interfaces?
Skål is a media player designed for the home that lets you interact with digital media using physical objects. You place objects in a wooden bowl to play back related media on the TV. Skål makes media playful.
Lykke Li - Possibility
I know I’ve been...
“These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and...”
– Romeo & Juliet
36 rules of life
kiel:
via beneathmybones:
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
5. If you must choose between two evils, pick...
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Sorry Tumblr, just needed to vent.
“No one can own a conversation.
You can stimulate. You can lead. You can...”
– Jonathan Mead on the ownership of conversation in particular within the digital realm. (via lanipauli)
“She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them,...”
– J.D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via thechocolatebrigade)
ursofuckinspecial:
theamazon:
I like to listen to how people talk and it’s always nice to listen to someone who doesn’t talk the way you’re used to someone talking.
