January 2011
28 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Tony Allen (2)
LL Cool J (2)
Elbow (1)
Wang Chung (1)
Sean Kingston (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchvasta:
Ever wonder why, when you’re blindfolded, you can never walk in an exactly straight line?
Well, you’re not the only one. In this video (via), NPR’s Robert Krulwich reports on how we’re doomed to keep walking in circles. (Literally, not metaphorically.)
“As banker, I have the right to stand up if something is wrong,” he said....”
– Julian Assange vows to reveal tax details of 2,000 wealthy people | Media | The Guardian
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
(via buzzandersen)
Related: my 2007 blog post on the same theme:
The trouble with Facebook is that it’s a confused social...
How incorrect reports of Giffords’ death spread on... →
Holga Links: Getting Your Film Developed →
List of mail-order developing services for 120 (etc) film. Handy!
