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"The renovated Stanford Theatre quickly became America’s most popular place to watch classic…"

ana — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:51:39 +0000

“The renovated Stanford Theatre quickly became America’s most popular place to watch classic Hollywood movies. More people saw Casablanca here on its 50th anniversary in 1992 than anywhere else in America.”

– Stanford Theatre Movie Guide

"During rush hour, men have long been barred from a third of the carriages of metro trains. Some see…"

ana — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:04:55 +0000

“During rush hour, men have long been barred from a third of the carriages of metro trains. Some see that as offering a blessed sanctuary from wandering macho hands; for others it is a backward step on the march to equality.”

– Gender politics in Mexico City: Pink cabs rev up | The Economist

"I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don’t. I think they’re…"

ana — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:00:08 +0000

“I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don’t. I think they’re publications. And I think the role of comments is to add value to the posts. If you want to rebut a post, then you can create your own blog and post your rebuttal there”

– Scripting News: Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system

"There is a lot of diversity there, different from its beginning in 2004, where there was a pretty…"

ana — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:18:39 +0000

“There is a lot of diversity there, different from its beginning in 2004, where there was a pretty homogenic group of people there (almost like Facebook today). This certainly bother hipsters, fashion kinds and other high-income groups. There is even a neologism: “orkutificação”. In English it would be something as “orkutization”. It’s used as a negative term to refer to this “here comes everybody” feel, in which orkut has become full of “strange” people. Nowadays, there is even people saying that Twitter is becoming “orkutized”, because it is gaining popularity in Brazil and is becoming more diverse as well.”

– danah boyd | apophenia » social divisions between Orkut & Facebook in Brazil

"Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose…"

ana — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:40:01 +0000

“Here’s the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now—older people as well as younger people—you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other people’s reality: for others, not for yourself. You are creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice, whether it’s yourself you’re thinking about or anything else.”

– Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar

The 53rd Annual Punctuation Posse Round-up |…

ana — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:51:50 +0000

The 53rd Annual Punctuation Posse Round-up | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com — funny (if not necessarily “passive-aggressive”) notes from pissed-off people

An In-Depth Look at How People Are Using the iPad

ana — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:02:16 +0000

An In-Depth Look at How People Are Using the iPad

"Once again I’m caught in the radical middle, between the techno-apologists and the…"

ana — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:49:35 +0000

“Once again I’m caught in the radical middle, between the techno-apologists and the paleobibliophiles, where no major-magazine story proposals dare to tread.”

– The Shallow Surplus | HiLobrow

"Please at your earliest convenience produce an SDK that is not reliant upon JAVA. C, C#, or possibly…"

ana — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:22:31 +0000

“Please at your earliest convenience produce an SDK that is not reliant upon
JAVA. C, C#, or possibly python pyc would be the most advantageous options.”

– Issue 8420 – android – SDK that does not rely on a jvm – Project Hosting on Google Code

TAKEOURJOBS.ORG

ana — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:37:50 +0000

TAKEOURJOBS.ORG

The Filler of Stockings

ana — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:39:17 +0000

[...] the hideous threat of the Filler of Stockings, who oozes through chimneys and ventilation ducts every Dead God’s Birthday-eve to perform unspeakable acts against items of hosiery.

Charles Stross
Overtime

Architecture’s Modern Marvels | Culture | Vanity Fair

ana — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:10:33 +0000

Architecture’s Modern Marvels | Culture | Vanity Fair

slaughterhouse90210: “I loved you because there was no other…

ana — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:36:27 +0000

slaughterhouse90210:

“I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.”
— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

"To encourage this creative process, Dr. Schooler says, it may help if you go jogging, take a walk,…"

ana — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:50:02 +0000

“To encourage this creative process, Dr. Schooler says, it may help if you go jogging, take a walk, do some knitting or just sit around doodling, because relatively undemanding tasks seem to free your mind to wander productively. But you also want to be able to catch yourself at the Eureka moment.”

– Findings – Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind – NYTimes.com

slaughterhouse90210: “When we don’t know who to hate, we hate…

ana — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:42:36 +0000

slaughterhouse90210:

“When we don’t know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"But an intriguing piece of research published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of the…"

ana — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:40:01 +0000

“But an intriguing piece of research published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, suggests the opposite: wearing fake goods makes you feel a fake yourself, and causes you to be more dishonest in other matters than you would otherwise be.”

– Morality: Rose-coloured spectacles? | The Economist

"In the end, growing a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem is more a cultural than a bureaucratic…"

ana — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:39:11 +0000

“In the end, growing a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem is more a cultural than a bureaucratic question: European venture capitalists and entrepreneurs must take more risks; incumbents must realise that buying a start-up is often better than trying to develop new technology in-house; politicians must stop protecting vested interests; and – last but far from least – consumers need to be more adventurous in trying new products and services. Failing all that, innovation – and jobs – will increasingly emerge elsewhere.”

– Innovation in Europe: Ultimately, it’s cultural | The Economist

"Now traffic to two of the most popular blog-hosting sites, Blogger and WordPress, is stagnating,…"

ana — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:15:42 +0000

“Now traffic to two of the most popular blog-hosting sites, Blogger and WordPress, is stagnating, according to Nielsen, a media-research firm. By contrast, Facebook’s traffic grew by 66% last year and Twitter’s by 47%. Growth in advertisements is slowing, too. Blogads, which sells them, says media buyers’ inquiries increased nearly tenfold between 2004 and 2008, but have grown by only 17% since then. Search engines show declining interest, too.”

– The evolving blogosphere: An empire gives way | The Economist

"It’s worth noting that Guido Koch is employed today, despite his youthful experimentation with…"

ana — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:55:02 +0000

“It’s worth noting that Guido Koch is employed today, despite his youthful experimentation with the forbidden allure of the weekend.”

– “I have noticed that you failed to come into the lab on several weekends” – Boing Boing

"Regular crises perform two functions: They keep people too busy to think, and they provide…"

ana — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:00:14 +0000

“Regular crises perform two functions: They keep people too busy to think, and they provide intermittent reinforcement. After all, sometimes you win—and when you’ve mostly lost, a taste of success is addictive.”

– Issendai’s Superhero Training Journal – How to keep someone with you forever