December 2009
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My tumblarity is going up but I have no clue why, do you?
Watch43 minutes of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros on KCRW.
I really do love Morning Becomes Eclectic.
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Text Laundering
The opportunity for disruptive innovations only increases while search engines allow these black hat practices to show up in our queries, and to be honest I couldn’t be happier.
cdixon:
Text laundering: The act of transforming text in order to confuse duplicate text detectors, for example those used by search engines like Google.
Here’s a recent Boing Boing post I picked at random:
If...
“We have the right to our labor, but not to the fruits of our labor.”
– Krishna
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Our Online Expectations are Effecting the Real... →
The internet is forcing our need for information and our expectations of receiving it in a transparent manner to increase. Eventually, this need will push us to become more open and comfortable sharing information in our offline interactions
I want to be home, in my room, playing guitar.
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Vevo is a Huge Disappointment →
I just posted this over on the other blog and hope you get a chance to read.
“I now realize that the uneasiness in my stomach came from disappointment in knowing that there are people and companies out there that have the brains and the resources to answer every singer songwriter’s worries but instead they created Vevo.”
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“It is not enough to write to be understood; one must write in such a way that it...”
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Fuck You Mark David Chapman
My girlfriend asks me questions knowing that I’ll Google search for it online until I find the answer so that she doesn’t have to.
Today I had a thought that one day technology will become so advanced that we’re even able to build camcorders and cameras right into our contact lenses… and that that would be scary and disturbing and suck.
How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan... →
soupsoup:
paulscheer:
Excellent Article by the NY Times about the troop surge. Worth a read to understand how the decision was made.
I wish Thom Yorke was on tumblr.
If we weren’t here what would happen?
Buildings would crumble.
Cars would rust.
Our gadgets would die slow deaths until the electricity ran out or the batteries died.
The food in the fridge would spoil.
Traffic lights would change without purpose, all that planning gone to waste.
Time would pass without record: no watches, no clocks, no calendars, no schedules, no fucking morning...