January 2011
18 posts
Watchjakeandamir:
Vest
Every so often Jake and Amir still get it right
proof we all have WAY too much time on our hands →
apart from the fact that you’re on tumblr RIGHT NOW, that is.
“When I learned about performance and mastery orientations, I realized with...”
– from the same article, which I could have written (read this article)
“In childhood, it is remarkably easy to instill one orientation or the other. It...”
– Reminder to praise my kid for work put in rather than innate abilities, so he doesn’t become a slacker (http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2009/11/awesome-by-proxy-addicted-to-fake.html)
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
Watchnerdology:
Motorola Atrix
This is one of the coolest devices to come out of CES this year. It’s an Android phone that, when docked, runs a Linux experience as if it’s a desktop or laptop. And it saves your state when you switch OS’s so you don’t have to think about it. I love the idea of your computer scaling in size.
I feel like I’ve posted about this before, but here’s a much...
David Cross versus David Landau (urlesque.com) →
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Qu'est-ce Que J D?: No Diggety - A New Refutation... →
rljd:
White, urbane, boring rappers like Asher Roth absolutely dominate independent hip-hop. He’s not a trend that failed to catch on, he’s a lame commercial flare-up of something that is more ubiquitous in hip-hop now than, like, mixtapes.
Jesse Dangerously criticizing an Onion online post about rap careers that failed to catch on. His whole post is insightful, if you’re into hop hop, but...
New York Underbelly →
Extremely easy snow tires on your winter bike →
because biking year round is fun