January 2012
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Why I Hate Pandas!
*Pandas are useless. Why are we spending so much money and time trying to keep them alive?
Pandas are going extinct because there are two things they are refusing to do; eating and fucking. And they won’t fucking do it. My guess is that the pandas suddenly all realized how utterly pointless they are, and collectively decided to slowly kill themselves off. Despite this scientist waste...
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Thought You Should See This: Submit a Résumé?... →
*I hope that ideas like this catch on. The world is changing. So much more information is available. Sell yourself to employers. In the long run it will work out better.
No More Résumés, Say Some Firms is an interesting piece in the Journal looking at how companies are trying to implement more rigorous filtering systems for their hiring processes and avoid having to wade through countless...
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On Criticism, Cynicism & Sharpening Your Gut... →
Knowing which feedback to embrace and which to discard is perhaps the most important instinct for a creative leader to possess. Nearly every legendary innovation was initially mocked or misunderstood by the so-called “experts.” In truth, scrutiny and doubt are just part of the toll we pay to take the path less traveled. But knowing this doesn’t make it any easier. The question is: When should...
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Most Anticipated Films of 2012
*2011 was a solid year for film but this year looks stellar! If only 5 of these are great, I will consider 2012 a banner year in film. I’m probably missing some but here ya go. I’ll check back in a year and see how I did.
Looper
Seven Psychopaths
Prometheus
Skyfall
The Dark Knight Rises
Gravity
Save the Date
Wreck it Ralph
The Avengers
Safety Not Guaranteed
Bachelorette
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Watch“Synthesizers” by Butch Walker & the Black Widows
hello all you wonderful people. do you remember the movie “Dazed and Confused”? me too. it was and still is one of my favorite movies. reflects my childhood so much, and also Ben Affleck is a TOTAL asshole in it. i gotta say though, when it comes to classic characters, Matthew McConaughey’s “Wooderson” took the cake… and the high...
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“The so-called sharing economy has taken off in the Great Recession, as companies...”
– How Steve Case and His Company Are Driving the Sharing Economy - Atlantic Mobile (via mediafuturist)
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Direct Your Attention (Episode 9)
*If you want to hear me gush about awesome things then tune in.
This week we discuss:
Little Brother (book)
Misfits (tv)
The Guard (film)
Run Roo Run (app)
Featuring music by Brite Futures along with catching up on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
And a discussion on the nostalgia and childhood films.
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The Mechanism of Mediocrity
Nicholas G. Carr on his favorite deep explanation
In 1969, a Canadian-born educator named Laurence J. Peter pricked the maidenhead of American capitalism. “In a hierarchy,” he stated, “every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” He called it the Peter Principle, and it appeared in a book of the same name. The little volume, not even 180 pages long, went on...
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“This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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Direct Your Attention (Episode 8)
*Solid episode. But I am biased.
This week we discuss:
Frogpants Network (podcast)
Archer (tv)
Press Pause Play (web)
SpellTower (app)
Featuring music by The Strokes
Plus we bring up Dr. Horrible!
And a discussion on the “picky eaters” and how food ties in to class.
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Hold the Everything: A Food Plainist’s Lament →
What does my aversion to wet food say about my personality? Nothing, if you ask me, except that I get weirded out by spreadable liquids. But that’s not the consensus view. For many, my gravy-less mashed potatoes and plain bagels hint at a sort of puritanical stodginess, as if the blandness of my meals reveals a similar blandness of the soul. Periodically when I’m lunching on salad in my office,...
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster...”
– Isaac Asimov (via mymindtank)
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The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll... →
At first glance, Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” may look like any other U.S. wall map. It’s about 4 feet by 3 feet. It uses a standard, two-dimensional conic projection. It has place names. Political boundaries. Lakes, rivers, highways.
Imus map of the United States.
So what makes this map different from the Rand McNally version you can buy at a bookstore?...
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WatchThere’s Something You Should Know About Kristen Bell’s Body
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