July 2009
67 posts
Can You Fall in Love With Your Favorite TV... →
The emotions we experience in being with our friends and lovers are being carried over - and sometimes even replaced - by mirrored feelings we develop for our favorite characters, toys, and objects.
How cooking makes you a man →
I know that from our perspective in the West, where we tend to focus even more than other societies on questions of sexual morality, it’s rather an immoral suggestion that I’m making — basically…
Why isn't it like this at home? - Why is it... →
I also had to bite my tongue, as I was given the news that there was something special about drinking French wine in France, that only the French could make proper goats’ cheese, and that only in…
Site Wins Fans by Letting Them Play Fashion... →
Do You Have These Core Human Skills? - The... →
From humble tool to global icon →
Four ways to redesign Facebook. →
People always hate when their favorite site is redesigned. Lots of users were probably responding more to the suddenness of the changes than to the substance, and we’d all get over it soon enough.
Transformers 2 Movie vs Transformers Animated... →
Most filmmakers kicking off a long-awaited Hollywood take on a treasured Gen-X franchise spend years treating its fanboys with a mixture of reverence, fear, and worship. Lurking in the outer darkness…
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami
Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research... →
“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at…
Tracking deliveries of all kinds is on everyone's... →
The relentless consumer need to track is really about how valuable our time has become, says Grant McCracken, a cultural anthropologist. But, he warns, 24/7 tracking “fits us with a harness that some…
“Awards are just like the froth on top of a pint of beer.They’re enjoyable and...”
– The truth about awards - Dave Trott’s Blog
“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all...”
– Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
Is it time to kill off Big Brother? →
The Day the Copy Died..... →
I certainly find it interesting - as someone who never went to art college - that Cannes entries often expect a ludicrously high degree of visual literacy in their audience (every year there are a few winners that I simply cannot understand) whereas very few make much use of language.
“One study of how memories influence consumption explored the phenomenon whereby...”
– Dan Ariely (Predictibly Irrational)
The Warehouse Project 09 - Week 1 →
Why people don't act on climate change - opinion -... →
The Warehouse Project 09 →
“Perhaps it is only a myth that Menelaus declared war on the Trojans after Paris...”
– Gary Marcus (Kluge)
“In general, living a healthy life for a period of ten years, say, is...”
– Howard Rachlin
“Future discounting extends well beyond food. It affects how people spend money,...”
– Gary Marcus (Kluge)
“In every species that’s ever been studied, animals tend to follow what is...”
– Gary Marcus (Kluge)
“I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via littlemiss)
Poke her face!
Things I Hate Everyone Else Seems to Love
1. Chanel chain bags (Chanel is nice but bags? No kthx)
2. Useless celebrities (From Katie Price to Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen)
3. The 80s and its fashion(s)
4. The fact that it’s acceptable to be fat to the point where you’re unsustainable even for this planet
5. Email notifications of any kind. Junk inbox is this way ->
How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans →
Mentos Isn't The Only Thing That Makes Soft Drinks... →
…words fail me
“I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way...”
– Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho (via expose) (via spunkfairy) (via justbesplendid)
“If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will...”
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
“It’s often been said that pleasure exists to guide the species, but why,...”
– Gary Marcus (Kluge)
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so”
– John Stuart Mill
Commix - Be True
“People keep saying they want to ‘go deeper’, a phrase that normally makes my...”
– Blu Mar Ten
“D&b’s failure to capture hearts, and minds outside of a dark sweaty...”
– End of dumb & base
“Summer has become more about memories than promises. The season is enjoyed only...”
– Alain de Botton on summer 