“ We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness. I think this is good news. As people become increasingly comfortable with drawing their culture from a rich range of sources—cherry-picking whatever makes sense to them—it becomes more natural to do the same thing with their social, political and other cultural ideas. The sharing of art is a precursor to the sharing of other human experiences, for what is pleasurable in art becomes thinkable in life.
The death of uncool « Prospect Magazine
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The Beatles in a thousand years.
Lego Matrix
Surprised Kitty
“ When I first heard of the Pulitzer Prize, I thought it was the “Pulit Surprise”. I picture people hiding and jumping pout from behind furniture to bestow literary awards on writers.
tbone42617 comments on Ask Reddit: What incorrect things did you believe for way longer than you should have?
“ Your identity is too important to be owned by any one company.
Your friends are too important to be owned by any one company. Aza’s Thoughts » Identity in the Browser (Firefox)
Your friends are too important to be owned by any one company. Aza’s Thoughts » Identity in the Browser (Firefox)
“ There is a strong likelihood that someone in this generation will be the last human to eat a bluefin tuna.
Tuna Diplomacy
“ It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we’ll see a continuation of the interoperable web model we’ve enjoyed for the past two decades. But I’m betting that things are going to get ugly. We’re heading into a war for control of the web. And in the end, it’s more than that, it’s a war against the web as an interoperable platform. Instead, we’re facing the prospect of Facebook as the platform, Apple as the platform, Google as the platform, Amazon as the platform, where big companies slug it out until one is king of the hill.
And it’s time for developers to take a stand. If you don’t want a repeat of the PC era, place your bets now on open systems. Don’t wait till it’s too late. The War For the Web - O’Reilly Radar
And it’s time for developers to take a stand. If you don’t want a repeat of the PC era, place your bets now on open systems. Don’t wait till it’s too late. The War For the Web - O’Reilly Radar
“ Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a post’s purpose was to grab search engine clicks or to promise “99 Answers to Your Problem That We’re Telling You You’re Having”. Yeah. I’d like to get back to that here.
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