hard-boiled

August 30th 2010

i’ve always said that the dividing line between internet natives and their elder generations is whether or not you had sex or the internet first.

People born after 1981 have lower privacy standards

(via fred-wilson) (via evangotlib)

but what about sex ON the internet?

(via newsweek)

Why can’t the printed Newsweek be this good?

Also, I was born in 82. I don’t really care about my privacy setting (within reason of course).
You are signing up to be on a “social network.” If you want to hide something then you probably shouldn’t join.

Posted at 7:56pm.

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The magic age is people born after 1981,” said Sam Altman in a New York Times article. “That’s the cut-off for us where we see a big change in privacy settings and user acceptance.

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August 30th 2010

How to Make Justin Bieber Sound Incredible: Slow Him Down 800 Percent

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It’s true, Justin Bieber sounds like a movie soundtrack when made to slow the f-down from the constant sugar rush of being 12.

Posted at 2:14pm and tagged with: justin bieber, that is the only time i will ever use that tag,.

August 26th 2010

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itsfullofstars:

A lunar transit of the Sun captured during calibration of STEREO B’s ultraviolet imaging cameras

(via crookedindifference)

Posted at 10:37am.

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August 25th 2010

Nirvana — Dumb

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11 plays

“Have a hangover” is right…

Posted at 12:06pm and tagged with: dumb, nirvana, unplugged,.

August 24th 2010

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9-Day Traffic Jam Stretches 62 Miles http://t.co/YFxTDOz Makes me feel bad for spewing all that fire and brimstone on I-95.

Posted at 7:33pm.

August 24th 2010

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newsweek:

Amazing, amazing 1980s New York City Subway photos, via timeoutnewyork ; nycx

Photo by John F. Conn.

These photos are amazing.

Side note: I worked for the New York Transit Museum as a tour guide.

Posted at 12:23pm and tagged with: nyc, subway, newsweek, transit museum,.

newsweek:

Amazing, amazing 1980s New York City Subway photos, via timeoutnewyork ; nycx
Photo by John F. Conn.

These photos are amazing.
Side note: I worked for the New York Transit Museum as a tour guide.

August 24th 2010

Could You Read This For Me?

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Instapaper is slowly evolving from the greatest web application I have started using in the past year into another inbox chore. The number of saved articles I have has surpassed my ability to manage which ones I’d even like to read at this point.

Someone suggested recently that long form article writing is making a comeback precisely because of these bookmarking technologies (as well as the Reader feature in Safari 5). That’s great. I argue, however, that it is very hard to back this observation up if you can’t tell if people actually read the article or not.

Arment, who is also the lead developer behind Tumblr, said Instapaper.com gets about 3 million page views per month and that the service has a few hundred thousand active users altogether. Poynter Online

I happen to be of the persuasion that at least a statistically significant number of these users are like myself. We are people who are excited to have found a place to store the myriad of articles that sound so very interesting at first, but who quickly find that visualizing the workload means adding it to that never-to-do list.

Posted at 10:56am and tagged with: gtd, instapaper, overload, long form journalism, @longreads,.