January 17, 2012
(via 18 Alternate Universe Movie Posters)

(via 18 Alternate Universe Movie Posters)

January 6, 2012
"In the writers’ room, Louis found the most creative ways to waste time. Once, he started throwing money out the window with notes attached to it, like, ‘You pathetic pig.’ People on Sixth Avenue would pick up the money and read these vile notes, and he’d be looking down, laughing."

Louie CK_- The Man Who Loves to Hate Himself - Rolling Stone

December 10, 2011
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me

December 10, 2011
"I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity."

Joichi Ito - Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants - NYTimes.com

December 8, 2011

Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames (by pacificstandardtime)

October 16, 2011

Builders of Corn Mazes Hope to Lose Visitors, and One Actually Did - NYTimes.com

October 15, 2011
"With the coming of the Industrial Revolution… the economy developed a muscular system in the form of machine power. Now it is developing a neural system… Around 1990, computers started seriously to talk to each other, and all these connections started to happen. The individual machines—servers—are like neurons, and the axons and synapses are the communication pathways and linkages that enable them to be in conversation with each other and to take appropriate action."

The second economy - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Growth

October 11, 2011

October 11, 2011
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Total Babes - Be So True

October 2, 2011
"Fire isn’t a noun, it’s a verb, and it’s what Amazon has done in the targeted direction of Google. This is the first shot in the new war for replacing the Internet with a privatized merchant data-aggregation network."

Fire - cdespinosa’s posterous