06 12 / 2011
Coyote Tracks: Paypal: feel the love
You’ve probably read about (or even felt) the anger over Paypal “stealing money” from Regretsy, which is only the latest in a series of things they’ve done that have pissed the Internet off. I suspect, given the attention this is getting, they’ll fix this. (Unlike them cutting off Wikileaks,…
I feel your pain.
(Source: chipotle)
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28 11 / 2011
If it looks like this DSLR has been through a lot, it’s because it has.
It hung out at the bottom of the ocean and later washed up on shore in Canada! Marcus found it with 50 photos intact and managed to find the owner via Google+!
DSLR’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Ocean & Back
via Engadget
Amazing story.
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21 11 / 2011
"Congress’ approval rating has fallen to an abysmal 9% - to put this in perspective, herpes is now slightly more popular than Congress."
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10 11 / 2011
Chevy True Stories, “My Dad’s Car”
Obviously, I love this. Of course, I teared up. (Honestly, GM: this is the tack you should have taken 5 years ago.)
This is a great trend, one I noticed first with Mercedes, and now with Chrysler, Ford, and Chevy. It’s about respecting quality and craftsmanship over the next new thing. Looking back and realizing that the current cars aren’t necessarily the best cars, and that the heritage of these cars is more important than the here and now. They are starting to make commercials to promote their old cars that were made many years ago, and showing the evolution of the cars and the brand over time.
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30 9 / 2011
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This century is about having a vision for the way things should be, and the audacity to make it so. Just a decade or two ago, it took immense amounts of capital to launch an idea that could change the world. Now, it takes a few people with an idea, a computer, and the willingness to learn how to build it.
The only thing holding us back now is ourselves.
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Seth Godin
This is something I’ve been saying for a long time, and it only gets truer with time.
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28 9 / 2011
"American design is consumer driven. What Americans want, they get. Unfortunately, they typically don’t want what we may call “good design,” perhaps because they don’t know what it is. So they get “splashy” or “feature-rich” design, because that is what they like. But this is changing fast."
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28 9 / 2011
"Why are they so cynical about conversation on the web? Because a company like Google thinks it’s okay to sell video ads on YouTube above conversations that are filled with vile, anonymous comments. Because almost every great newspaper in America believes that it’s more important to get a few more page views on their website than to encourage meaningful discourse about current events within their community, even if many of those page views will be off-putting to the good people who are offended by the content of the comments. And because lots of publishers think that any conversation is good if it boosts traffic stats."
(Source: dashes.com, via maxistentialist)
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28 9 / 2011
Maxistentialism: A common sleeping pill can wake up vegetative patients for an hour a day
For three years, Riaan Bolton has lain motionless, his eyes open but unseeing. After a devastating car crash doctors said he would never again see or speak or hear. Now his mother, Johanna, dissolves a pill in a little water on a teaspoon and forces it gently into his mouth….
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28 9 / 2011
"We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."
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