February 2012
124 posts
“GitHub wasn’t supposed to be a startup or a company. GitHub was just a tool that...”
– @defunkt (via brycedotvc)
How do we remember?
Once a memory is formed, we assume that it will stay the same. This, in fact, is why we trust our recollections. They feel like indelible portraits of the past.
None of this is true. In the past decade, scientists have come to realize that our memories are not inert packets of data and they don’t remain constant. Even though every memory feels like an honest representation, that sense of...
If This Is A Blog Then What's Christmas? - Remakes... →
Go watch the two videos and learn about advertising.
Nothing ever needs to go out of print again.
Henri’s Walk to Paris
In 1962, Saul Bass collaborated with former librarian Leonore Klein on his only children’s book, which spent decades as a prized out-of-print collector’s item. This month, exactly half a century later, Rizzoli is reprinting Henri’s Walk to Paris.
-dw.02.21.12 # A post from the daily flow of linkage called Fresh Signals, at Coudal.com.
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Stacey Rozich: + + + THE LAST WAVE + + + →
staceyrozich:
April 5th, 2012 I will be presenting a whole new body of work, installation projects, and collaborations at Seattle’s Flatcolor Gallery for my solo show The Last Wave.
I will be doing a lot of updates with new work, new projects and a deeper explanation behind my new aesthetic and title…
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Digging into the Snarkchives
What I most value, and what’s most difficult to recreate outside of my RSS reader, is the exchange of perspective that erupts around a particular moment. Tim Geithner outlines a massive bailout plan, and my economists folder becomes an accessible but rigorous debate about scenarios and probabilities and consequences, light years more interesting and enlightening than a cluster of news stories.
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WatchKnit’n’Purl (by Rhiannon Evans)
“Essentially, Matchbook is like Foursquare or Yelp, minus the check-ins, reviews,...”
– Behind New Funding, Matchbook Wants To Turn Bookmarking Into Action With Intent-Based Deals | TechCrunch
Happy to take part in Matchbook and investing in it. This paragraph pretty much nails why I’m interested.
I am obsessed with Foursquare, that’s why I invested in it when Dennis invited me. I...
