February 2012
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“I mean, I think my sound is post-Internet. People my age had the Internet when...”
– - Claire Boucher
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“You don’t learn to write through reading anymore than you learn carpentry by...”
– 25 Things I Want To Say To “So-Called” Aspiring Writers
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
Good 9-page read on how Target uses data to understand consumers and predict purchase behaviour. Consumers’ shopping habits are most vulnerable during major life changes and Target targets their shoppers with the knowledge gathered through data mining.
The Febreeze case study on positioning and piggybacking exisiting habits makes a good point on how qualitative analyses can help in...
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“Success might be the best revenge, but apparently, being an asshole is forever.”
– Ryan Schreiber, Watch: M.I.A gives Super Bowl the finger.
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Taiwanese man dies playing video games →
A Taiwanese man died while playing video games at an Internet cafe as dozens of other patrons carried on for hours afterwards apparently unaware that they were sitting near a corpse, according to police.
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The waitress last saw him talking on the phone around noon on Wednesday and his body had apparently been sitting there for up to nine hours without any of the 30 other people in the...
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January 2012
21 posts
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“the album equivalent of a faked orgasm”
– Lana Del Rey: Born to Die | Album Reviews | Pitchfork (via desnoise)
Today in weirdly personal album zings you’d never use for a man*. (And I mean “today in,” damn it; there’s one in every single review, and it’s starting to get uncomfortably telling. Yes, I’m still working on my piece….)
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Jamie XX B2B Caribou 100 Min Mix →
At the King of Limbs Remix launch party.
A Boiler Room Podcast Series.
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magalogue asked: Thinking about marriage, are you?
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Watchpitchfork:
This magnetic, looping, live-in-studio performance of Grimes’ recent Best New Track “Genesis” comes courtesy of Yours Truly.
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Amanda Palmer - The Wedding Blog →
A year after.
A rather long read, but well worth the effort.
Do it.
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Reblog if you think gay marriage should be legal.
c0stal:
shit, the notes.
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Strategy
I remember that once in the class I was TA-ing, one of our invited speakers said something that was related to this:
Sentosa indirectly markets to the teenager segment by marketing to the yuppie segment instead. Marketing to the teenagers would alienate the yuppies, because no one wants to go to kiddy teenage land. While teenagers, aspiring to be yuppies, would lap it all up.
(Note: the speaker...
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WatchI love, love, love this.
flavorpill:
likeapairofbottlerockets:
THE WEEKND - HIGH FOR THIS - CAT VERSION
Cat video to end all cat videos.
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Stumptown Girl →
Wonderfully written essay on “Portlandia”,
“Portlandia” is an extended joke about what Freud called the narcissism of small differences: the need to distinguish oneself by minute shadings and to insist, with outsized militancy, on the importance of those shadings.
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Brownstein,
When Brownstein plays music, there is nothing ironic about her. The first time that we sat down to...
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Opinion: Awful Lot Of Heterosexuals Around Here →
We are an artistic industry. We want to be recognized as a serious and legitimate force. The fact that LGBT kids out there, being shit on at high schools – bullied and contemplating suicide – don’t have a role model in the games they play, is disgraceful. It’s shameful. We have a responsibility to make characters that people love, relate to, and enjoy spending time with.
The...
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Words With Friends game leads to marriage →
jkimisyellow:
WWF - the new Grindr for straight people
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“But Tintin himself, by never growing up, by never even updating his 1930s-style...”
– An Innocent in America by Charles McGrath
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December 2011
33 posts
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The Joy of Quiet →
The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is...
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“Gaming could explore the human condition by interfacing with the player like...”
– Jason Lomberg, ‘I’m Tired of SavingThe World’.
Just because it’s epic doesn’t mean that it’s good.
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Online Merchants Home In on Imbibing Consumers →
After enjoying a few drinks, some people go dancing. Others order food. And for some, it’s time to shop online.
Amanda Schuster, a wine-and-spirits writer and consultant in Brooklyn, says she never shops in actual stores after drinking, but she finds it hard to resist the Web. “It feels productive in a way — like I didn’t just come home drunk and pass out, I went home and did something,” she...
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Mixtapes of 2011 →
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Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in... →
“Sometimes patients tell us that they were doing some type of household chore in the nude when they ‘fell’ or ‘tripped’ or ‘jumped into bed’ and ‘landed on the object’.”
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Do your friends influence your taste? →
The Harvard researchers tracked college students’ Facebook relationships and measured how taste in music, movies and books spreads through social networks. It turns out that the degree to which your friends’ tastes and yours are connected has more to do with how you became friends in the first place than the force of that allegiance later on.
When it comes to taste, “peer influence is virtually...
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Pitchfork: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 →
A yearly affair.
My most important list of 2011.
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