‘nuff said?
‘nuff said?
Watching the transformation is like discovering that one’s favorite teddy bear has fangs and a taste for human flesh. Before long, I’ll bet we’ll see squads of Segway cops in full riot gear running down fleeing demonstrators at some future anti-globalization demonstration.
This isn’t like getting tickets to a Fugazi reunion at the Black Cat; there will be plenty of iPhones to go around.
Rob Pegoraro says Don’t Run Out To Buy An iPhone Today
I can’t bring myself to abandon plain text — there’s something noble about it, something efficient, something respectful of the recipient’s settings for displaying text; it’s the way our forefathers did email.
Keyboard Shortcut to add hyperlinks in Mail.app | Hawk Wings +1
…That might be the atomized fate of the West in general: desperately seeking visions, alone in the wild, surrounded by portable gadgetry.
BLDGBLOG: The Digital Replacement of the Natives
Talking Points Memo | Obama’s Is an Appalachia Problem, Not a Whites Problem
What people don’t understand about Appalachia is that we’ve heard all this ‘hope’ and ‘change’ stuff since the English kicked the Scotch-Irish out in the 1700s.
I have a lot of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night.
I show up in a town and call up my friends, and I’m like, “Guys, we gotta go out. Let’s hang out, I haven’t seen you in forever.” And their response is “Yeah, well, our baby needs to be going to sleep and I can’t be out all hours of the night anymore. It’s time to move on in our lives into another phase; we can’t live in this perpetual adolescence forever.”
Paste Magazine :: The Meaning of Life by Ben Gibbard.
On The Media: Transcript of "Search is the New Black" (May 2, 2008)
And what we’ve seen with the Internet is that the digital divide was really, I think, more about a moment in time where there was a lag between early adopters and mass America. It’s become something that’s much more part of the fabric of everyday America, including black America.
Where we do see a divide on the Internet continues to be around sort of class and education, less so about race.
Omar Wasow spoke with On the Media’s Bob Garfield about African-American media.
I got into storytelling very much through music, not through journalism. I was never good as a pure composer, but doing it in the service of storytelling somehow makes it so much easier. When you’ve got hours and hours of raw tape, it becomes a compositional exercise. To figure out what the story is, you try to approach it in terms of sound and texture. With musical composition, you want certain parts to be dense and others to be sparse. You’re thinking in terms of syncopation, beats, and rhythms. It’s very gestural, and it applies almost exactly to storytelling. Sometimes, you feel like a story is too regular, too metronomic. You can change a story’s “time signature,” so to speak, by creating little surprises and altering the rhythms on a micro level.
Jad Abumrad of Radio Lab talks with Boldtype.