February 2010
Decision to Stop Making Hummers Saddens Assholes →
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America →
For the record, we also have no stated policy... →
Has Lollapalooza Jumped the Shark? →
Rumors are coming out as to who is going to headline Lollapalooza this summer. Lady Gaga, the walking dollar signs formerly known as Green Day, a reunited and apparently not dead Soundgarden, Arcade Fire, and The Strokes seem to be the early clubhouse favorites.
Initially I was disappointed knowing that there is no chance in hell I go see the first three, I have already seen Arcade Fire a few...
“No, I’m not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody....”
– Shit My Dad Says- The twitter feed.
(Not my father by the way)
App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health) →
“Nothing good can happen at this point,” Wes explains simply. “You...”
– Bill Simmons: 2010 NBA trade value column
WatchFor some reason they split this into two parts so this is the second part. This is a “cell phone shootout” from the Fallon show where you win the prize your phone takes a picture of on a scrolling TV screen. The final prize is awesome.
Ultra High-Speed Broadband Networks?
Yes... →
“We’re wired for attachment in a world of impermanence…How we negotiate that...”
– Robert Neimeyer, a psychologist at the University of Memphis who studies how people draw meaning from loss and grief (via psychotherapy)
The Riddle of Consciousness (New York Times) →
psychotherapy:
The deeper that investigators dig, the more hidden chambers they find. Last Wednesday, scientists in England and Belgium reported that five people with severe brain injuries who had been identified as “vegetative,” beyond reach, showed activity on brain imaging that strongly suggested conscious awareness. One of them, a 29-year-old man thought to be “vegetative” for five years,...
k-os : Flypaper
WatchI really really like this. NSFW.
"How to live our life to its smoothest" →
Kevin Drew Reveals All About New Broken Social... →
