May 2012
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Dan Harmon Gets Fired From Community  →
danharmon: Where was I?  Oh yeah.  I’m not running Community for season 4.  They replaced me.  Them’s the facts. This makes me very sad, and I’m pretty sure we have Chevy Chase to blame for this. Read the rest here.
May 19th
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May 12th
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May 10th
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April 2012
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Apr 18th
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“The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of...”
–  This is an amazing step in the right direction. Hooray for Twitter! (from Twitter Blog: Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement)
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 10th
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March 2012
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Mar 29th
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Edits Quarterly →
Jump out of your RSS feed and over to Edits Quarterly, a new web-based magazine, both beautiful outright and beautiful in its simplicity. “Short narratives in film and photography,” says the subhead. Well worth a flip through if nothing else. Go now /via Daring Fireball
Mar 9th
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February 2012
9 posts
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WatchWatch
Ze Frank is simply one of the funniest men alive. He’s been making hilarity around the internets for a very long time, and I want you to support his current Kickstarter project to bring back his lol-filled “The Show with Ze Frank” show. Do it now.
Feb 28th
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“Design is problem-solving, plain and simple. It is the creation of a solution...”
– Adam Connor, from his blog Too Big to Tweet: “I don’t believe in UX Design.” /via JournoGeekery
Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 11th
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No more t.co links in your Safari browser history. →
Introducing Detox, a tiny Safari extension that automatically expands shortened t.co links on the Twitter site. Simple but effective. /via Daring Fireball
Feb 11th
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“Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times....”
– William Deresiewicz, in a lecture titled “Solitude and Leadership” that was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009. Truly moving, but also heavily guilt-inducing, I implore you to devote 30 minutes to reading it in full.
Feb 5th
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January 2012
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December 2011
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“How do you have so much time to discover 31 albums, let alone listen extensively...”
–  Me, over on my music blog The Bacon Review, where I’m currently counting down my Top 31 albums of 2011, in case you’re interested. You should be. http://baconreview.com
Dec 12th
October 2011
6 posts
“Arrange to be carried around by ankles.”
– Tim Carvell’s Easy Halloween Costume Ideas from McSweeney’s is laugh-out-loud funny.
Oct 31st
Oct 25th
Giving a little love →
Frank Chimero, designer extraordinaire, gave an amazing talk at an AIGA conference recently. Enjoy.
Oct 22nd
“99 percent is a very large percentage.”
– Lemony Snicket, aka the brilliant Daniel Handler, from his piece, “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance. Be sure to read it as you’re donning your protest clothes; it will give you a boost.
Oct 22nd
Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
An awesome monologue from a blog called emptyage titled “Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It”: Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going...
Oct 19th
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I don't get why you're crying about Steve Jobs →
Kristina Halvorson, CEO of Brain Traffic, regarding the death of Steve Jobs, from her blog Work/Life Imbalance: I’ve never had a religious experience with an Apple product. I owned a PC and a Treo until 2009. The staff at my company Brain Traffic all use PCs. I don’t make fun of my friends with Androids. And I still don’t own an iPad. When news of his death came yesterday, my online...
Oct 8th
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August 2011
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Aug 12th
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June 2011
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Jun 16th
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April 2011
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Apr 23rd
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Cranking, by Merlin Mann →
Best thing I’ve read in ages. Seriously. Drop everything and read it right now, especially if you have or plan on having kids. Best thing. Ever. I love @hotdogsladies, and this post, more than anything else, sums up why.
Apr 23rd
December 2010
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WatchWatch
Unimpressive video of the blizzard I’m in.
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November 2010
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Nov 29th
30 Rock = The Muppet Show →
It‘s true. Read the blog post by Brian Lynch.
Nov 24th
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October 2010
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“People who shun new technologies will be viewed as passive-aggressive control...”
– Douglas Coupland, in an article for Canada’s Globe and Mail titled A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years. /via kottke.org
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