Category — clippings

slaughterhouse90210:

“Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy.”
— Anne Lamott, Operating Instructions

“A small miracle. And sometimes I think the small ones are the best.”

– The Panopticon: Go Go Kimono

“With that in mind, your estimation question is this: “How many times has Mario died in all of the videogames ever played?””

– A Diary of Numbers: Fermi Contest II

“But I for one am betting that the future is “the mobile web” not the “the mobile app.” There will always be some apps that have reasons to be native on devices but I am betting that serious innovation will happen on mobile browsers and that the future will so most apps folded into the cloud. We’ve already seen it once in the PC era. It’s the best thing for our health. We can build for one primary browser (like we do for Firefox on the desktop today) and then figure out how to get the rest working with whatever Microsoft builds.”

– App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

“Canadian men looking inexplicably sad is usually a hockey thing.”

– Yarn Harlot: Lorne’s Hat

slaughterhouse90210:

“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untraveled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.”
— Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters

“RWW uses Facebook Connect for comments, so these lost souls clicked the Facebook button and logged in, but instead of being at Facebook, they were now ready to comment on the RWW post. And comment they did…”

– Facebook users think Read/Write Web blog is Facebook. Hilarity ensues. – ryankuder’s posterous

“If Buzz isn’t for you, you can turn it off it by clicking the turn off buzz link at the bottom of your Gmail (it’s near the basic HTML link).”

– Disabling Buzz – Gmail Help

“This is already WAY BETTER than FriendFeed. Why? Not because of the features. It isn’t as good there. Not because of the layout. I like FriendFeed better. But because of the people. I’m seeing people I respect a lot who never showed up in FriendFeed. That’s the power of Google. Oh, and so far, the conversations have been a lot more interesting than the average FriendFeed conversation. I have some theories as to why that is, but mostly it’s because of the Gmail integration.”

– Buzz by Robert Scoble from Buzz

“Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data.”

– How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards

Google Buzz for mobile

“I don’t know about you, but to me the scarf aesthetically is not worth $300. I mean, come on, for $200 more I could get an iPad.”

– Google Is Now Selling Signature $300 Designer Scarves

“Google Guys:
You know you have a lot to offer, but the Silicon Valley social scene is just not working for you. Well, you’re in luck, because we’ve built a dating community just for you. Here you’ll find women looking for Googlers, women who value brains and accomplishment, and they’re here in a high female/male ratio.”

– Date A Googler(TM) Beta

Emily the Strange Comics labels on a Jones Soda Limited Jones: myJones: Customize and personalize your Jones Soda for weddings, graduations, parties, events, birthdays. Party ideas. Make it memorable, make it myjones

“It’s not generally realized that geeks (male and female) are the best catches. Americans focus on the glamour of the good-looking, the male jock and the statuesque female, and tend to make fun of second banana characters like Urkel. Yet, geeks (a.k.a. nerds, etc.) provide the opportunity to have much longer, more stable, and happy relationships.”

– Geek 2 Geek – Why Geeks Make the Best Lovers

“All hybrids are not created equal. Going from a conventional Toyota Matrix to a Prius reduces global warming emissions a whopping 44 percent. That’s like trading in a Hummer H3 for a Mini Cooper. By contrast, going from a Saturn Aura to an Aura Hybrid only reduces emissions 10 percent, the equivalent of trading in the Hummer H3 for a 3.7-liter Jeep Grand Cherokee.”

– Hybrid Scorecard — Findings: Advice for Consumers, Lessons for Automakers

““Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.” — Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey”

– Slaughterhouse 90210 – “Now he discovered that secret from which one…

“At very least, add “do nothing” and “go insane” as choices.”

– There are always more than two options | Derek Sivers

“without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link”

– Letters of Note: You’re an idiot of the 33rd degree

“Estamos HARTOS del anti-arte. Partiendo de una idea jocosa de Duchamp en determinado momento histórico, el anti-arte ha llegado a ser el nuevo academicismo, el nuevo arte oficial. Justo el enemigo contra el que se acuñó el término. El propio Duchamp rechazaba que sus Ready-Made se tomasen como arte… nosotros preferimos creer a Duchamp que a sus exégetas.”

– Manifiesto Hartista

“All those moments will be lost in time; like tears in rain. Time to die.”

– Blade Runner – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Creditors are checking out what you post to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. They’re checking out who your friends are and who the people are in your networks”

– Creditworthy? Lenders delve into your social networks – wtop.com

Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom

“Re-use of server heat: A portion of the excess heat created by the computer servers will be captured and used to heat office space in the facility during the colder months.”

– Facebook | Breaking Ground on Our First Custom Data Center

Diesel Be Stupid