What’s With This Big Brown Business??
News from the U.S. doesn’t reach me easily or often. Yes, I understand there is literally no excuse for that, given things like the “newspapers” and “the Internet,” but still, it’s surprising how easy it is to avoid all that business when you really try.
None the less, I’ve been hearing a lot about this horse [...]
Recalled Kia Ad
Some of you may have heard that Kia released an ad in Europe on the internet a few days ago. The content of the ad came under fire and they decided to pull the ad so they wouldn’t have to deal with too much fallout. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the beast the ad [...]
Don’t cry for Wall Street
The New York Times really has some nerve writing such a weepy tome about Wall Street layoffs. The very idea to write Wall Street Exodus: Fear, Panic and Anger is tin-eared, only grasping for some moral relativity late into the piece, where one broker (here called an “advisor”) gets it right:
If you went to school [...]
Seadragon/Photosynth is mind blowing
Coordinating the world’s visual data.
The antipower of antianonymity
“In order for people to truly listen to what one is saying one has to wear a mask and not be recognized.”
-Banksy (via Wildman)
Exposed
Emily Gould narcissistically seeks attention by writing about the suffering she experienced from narcissistically seeking attention.
The New York Times: in a world of ideas, talent, improvement, crises, joy and suffering, we make [...]
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