Shh. Do you hear that? Off in the distance. It sounds like a freight train from Cupertino coming down the track.
Amazon hears it.
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He said there would be an exam on all things Canadian. […] I would be expected to ski a black run, gallop a horse, catch a fish, drive a tractor, skate in a hockey match and chop down a cedar. Failure to comply would prevent my acceptance as a true Canuck.
Jo Ollive, “New to Canada and determined to skate”
I love this country.
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…never retire, but plan to change your career to keep your synapses snapping….
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Go ahead and believe there’s a such thing as a life well-wasted. We’re put here to be productive, not distracted.
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Behold, the ultimate in guilty colonialist fetish fantasy epic porn filmmaking, ever. Flawed, broken white man can, with his righteous modern technology, fuse his DNA with super-hot exotic sexually flawless alien species and become the Other and save the world and then score the hot chick from “Star Trek.”
Mark Morford, on James Cameron’s Avatar in his article “Please mount my hot blue alien”.
Someone had to say it.
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Less is more.
Keep it simple, stupid.
All updates are free. Period.
Trial versions do not expire.
Use your license on any private Mac.There is more to life than making money…
“Attitude”, MOApp -
Apple has not publicly confirmed its existence.
“Apple tablet supply chain points to Q2 launch: sources”, The Globe and Mail (Reuters)
What a great start to 2010.
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Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
The Red Queen, Through The Looking-Glass -
As rush hour traffic whizzed around him, he pushed a snow blower in front of him, whipping up piles of powder on the roadway.
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…the most mundane little corners of life can be full to the brim with hilarity and pathos that (almost) everybody can relate to— and as a writer and a human being, I live for that moment of recognition.
Meaghan O’Connell, “Where I’m Blogging From” -
Leaving for school.
My first tweet, entered via web, a little over an hour ago on this day in November 2006.
I feel old.
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It’s staggering really that modern American Christianism supports wealth while Jesus demanded total poverty, fetishizes family while Jesus left his and urged his followers to abandon wives, husbands and children, champions politics while Jesus said his kingdom was emphatically not of this world, defends religious war where Jesus sought always peace, and backs torture, which is what the Romans did to Jesus. At some point these charlatans need to be chased out of the temple. Which these days means the Republican party.
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Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don’t always know what for.
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Authenticity is special now.
Frank Chimero, “Faking It” -
Create for the joy of creating. Share for the joy of the sharing, and because the information you’re sharing genuinely excites you. Do that, and the rest will follow.
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Fortune favours the prepared mind.
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The deployment of shapes and geometry artistically makes the building stand out and makes it interesting. The ROM has a kind of spectacle appeal, a sensational quality it was supposed to have created by the stark contemporary contrast to its immediate historical context.
Tom Bessai, Director of Architectural Studies at the University of Toronto, “ROM Crystal named one of world’s ugliest buildings”
This is the sort of architecture-speak that turned me off architecture at UofT. So glad to see it’s alive and well.
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[…] this week researchers from IBM are reporting that they’ve simulated a cat’s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer.
The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory – 100,000 times as much as your computer has.
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Client: “The main thing we want to stress is that we are a global company, and that we are top-quality in the supply chain management industry. So basically what we’re thinking is that we’ll show a semi-dimensional illustration of the world, to emphasize global, and then around the world, we’ll put chains to emphasize the supply chain aspect of our business. We think it’s really strong and will communicate exactly what we’re going for. Could you come up with some comps around that?”
Designer: “…are you sure that’s sending the right message?”
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After a few days in Prague, Francesco, Rachel, and I started to wonder whether the dissatisfied, downcast Czech character might also have something to do with their cuisine. The national dish is goulash and dumplings. […] No wonder I didn’t see a fat Czech the whole week—surely no one has ever asked for seconds.
Slate Magazine, “The gloomy wonders of Prague”
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