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December 2009

2010 Predictions: NYT Trend Piece

There will be a NYT trend piece about people meeting and starting relationships during the last hour of international flights, when all gadgets are off and the passengers must remain seated. The article will run after there have been two resulting marriages and will center on a third engaged couple.

Dec 31, 20091 note
#2010predictions #nytimes #faa
Could a Conjoined Twin Get Away with Murder? → io9.com

Nick Kam, a friend of mine since my Santa Cruz days, just received a great write up on io9 for his law school paper. Amazingly awesome. Go read the whole thing.

Dec 30, 20091 note
Dec 30, 2009
#apple #music #2009
Dec 30, 20092 notes
#role playing #matrix #fbi
“Read voraciously, many books at a time. Only then will you hear the conversation taking place among them.” —Ways of reading / from a working library
Dec 30, 20091 note
#reading #rules
“Someone teleported through time from the early 1950s to 2009 would find a music business curiously similar to the landscape of 60 years ago. Few specialty record outlets. Department stores dominating the market. A singles-driven industry. Pop music dominating radio. TV musical talent shows all the rage.” —Variety, December 2009. (Via Marginal Revolution)
Dec 30, 20091 note
#music
Dec 30, 2009
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Dec 30, 200933 notes
“This is my Zeen. It is the key to my Airlife.” —From a new trademark filed by HP. (Via Gizmodo)
Dec 30, 2009
2010 is looking up!

getoutmybiz:

Comedy Central has ‘no plans’ to renew Jeff Dunham Show in 2010

I can’t not put into words how excited I am for 2010. It’s going to be a good year.

via.

Dec 29, 20092 notes

I would pay $20 a month for Instapaper if it let me select specific articles and output them wirelessly to a Kindle, complete with a TOC and sections.

But in the meantime: my project for the first quarter of 2010 will be an application that pulls your starred articles from Google Reader, let’s you check off the ones you want, and outputs a formatted ebook file complete with TOC. I’ve been hunting online with little luck for a script that parses XML into a Kindle-compatible MOBI file. Something tells me there’s a large stumbling block up ahead…

Dec 27, 20091 note
#instapaper #reading #projects
Dec 27, 2009
#newspapers #media
Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas → gizmodo.com
Dec 27, 20093 notes
Inside the $1 Billion Christmas Tree Business  → gawker.com

Via Gizmodo

Dec 27, 2009
“Is Google going to become the computing platform for the enterprise? Is a bank going to run itself on Google? Is an airline going to run itself on Google? Is IBM going to run its supply chain on Google? Is Bharti Wireless going to run themselves on Google? Is the banking system of China that we’ve built going to be on Google? Is the Russian Central Bank [network] that we’re building going to be on Google? No.” —IBM CEO On Google’s World Domination
Dec 27, 2009
#google #ibm
Dec 26, 20091 note
Douglas Adams’ “rules that describe our reactions to technologies”:

humancomputer:

lickystickypickyme:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things.
Dec 25, 200955 notes
“Avatar is a fantasy about ceasing to be white, giving up the old human meatsack to join the blue people, but never losing white privilege. Jake never really knows what it’s like to be a Na’vi because he always has the option to switch back into human mode. Interestingly, Wikus in District 9 learns a very different lesson. He’s becoming alien and he can’t go back. He has no other choice but to live in the slums and eat catfood. And guess what? He really hates it.” —

Annaless Newitz.

After a few days thinking on Avatar, I’ve arrived at the belief that the film will be largely forgotten. Kind of like Titanic.

When the key feature of your film is its technology, the product is waiting to become obsolete. The story of Avatar is nothing new. In fact, it takes pastiche to a whole new level, constructed out of elements from greater Cameron works. Once Avatar’s technology is ubiquitous, it will only be notable as a ‘first.’ Noted, but not watched.

District 9, for all it’s faults, had something to say. Avatar had something to prove. (Via io9)

Dec 24, 20092 notes
#film #avatar #district 9 #white guilt
Dec 24, 20091 note
#cyborg #illustration #robot #book
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