September 2010
11 posts
flake (n.) →
bobulate:
Leon Neyfakh describes the different kinds of flakes, for the record:
There are different kinds of flakes …. the cool, sexy flake (Julian Casablancas from the Strokes, Richard Katz from Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom); the benign stoner flake (Seth Rogen in Pineapple Express); and the misanthropic flake (your friend who never seems to leave the house). All of them are united by being...
Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters →
nostrich:
Frédéric Filloux compares Techmeme and Huffington Post in this piece, which paints a poor picture of the dark side (pardon the hyperbole) of human-powered aggregation. I don’t know much about the HuffPo — other than the fact that it’s an absolutely worthless mess of money-grabbing and unpaid bloggers (6,000 of them, apparently) — so this is rather enlightening.
The recipe is simple...
“Something that I find is often lost in the ‘why should I bother with all this’...”
– PTO Reader/Viewer Ed Arnold
Here, here. (Hear, hear?)
“For most of the 20th century, doctors routinely operated on babies without...”
– Two is the magic number: a new science of creativity. - Slate
What 21st century norm will seem similarly ghastly to us in the future?
Excellent question. Definitely something I’ve wondered myself.
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