I’ve always been a White Stripes fan and i’m also quite a big fan of Michel Gondry. I never thought either of them would sell out and make a Coke ad. But the ad is really pretty cool. The song in the ad is written by Jack White called “Love Is The Truth.” As the [...]
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According to Franz (the European academic) in Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We’ve always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That’s what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New [...]
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A couple of years ago i read Bill Mckibben’s book Enough. It’s a great read. In the book he discusses what it means to be human. There are 3 subjects he focuses on in the book: genetic research, nanotechnology and robotics. In each one he explores that ever shrinking moral and spiritual [...]
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Said much better than i could….
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While i’ll never truly endorse “Beirut” as a legitimate form of pong, i do have to give this guy a lot of credit. Or maybe i should feel bad for him with all the time he must have put in to make this happen. I wish i would have seen more consecutive sinks instead [...]
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One of my favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut, died this past week at the age of 84. He led a pretty incredible life. Born in 1922 in Indiana, he began his writing career at his high school newspaper, The Daily Echo. He briefly attended Butler U, but dropped out when a professor said his [...]
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I went to see The Grindhouse this weekend and LOVED it. Rodriguez’s terror flick, Planet Terror, was completely entertaining and Tarintino’s Death Proof was satisfying in on every level.
I went to see the film with 3 other friends and the best thing about the movie was how each person liked a different part and not [...]
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The technorati are going insane about the website Twitter these days. It’s all people can talk about. It’s driving me nuts! One thing that i keep asking myself is, isn’t Twitter is just the same as Facebook’s status indicator and news feed? If you don’t know about this feature in Facebook, here’s [...]
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My friend danah boyd gave a talk at the Etech conference last month (link is here). I just got around to reading the speech which i thought was fantastic. She begins it….
Isn’t there something magical about how fast the Internet went from a defense project to a key part of social infrastructure? Isn’t [...]
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As many of you know, i’m a huge Minnesota sports fan. I love the T-Wolves and it’s been frustrating for me to watch their season fall apart this year. Also, there are a lot of rumors about what’s going to happen with Garnett after the season ends. We have a great group of young players [...]
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