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Duties

(Image via thedesignblog)

Profile of Earth’s most well-established isolated man: survivor of an uncontacted Brazilian tribe living in a protected 31-square-mile zone. (via TMN)

What to do when you’re taken prisoner by a drug lord. (via TMN)

Vice interview with Cary Sherman, chairman of the RIAA. (viaWAXY)

Imagesoak. It crawls lots of RSS feeds and extracts the most interesting pictures, crops them, and places them on this page. (via WAXY)

For my vagabond amigo Seviglius: VanDwellers.org. A guide to life on wheels. (via coudal)

Filipino-transvestite-excorsist-whitney-houston. (via deerhunter)

The Skarfing Material Project is awesome: takes equal parts inspiration from Thrasher Magazine issues of the mid-80’s, and that horrible Julie and Julia movie. ”Skater food” recipes.

Internet killed the radio star. How much do music artists earn online? (via coudal)

If historical events had Facebook statuses. (via coudal)

Round-Up

Image above is from a beautiful set of Aztec and Mayan designs on BibliOdyssey.

Alain de Botton on distraction:

One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible. (via bobulate)

That said, here are some distractions…

Surgeons open up on the strangest objects they’ve found inside patients.

Free Willy, the horror film about a boy and a whale on the brink of madness.

“Ferret legging,” where competitors stuff ferrets down their pants, is making a comeback. (via TMN)

D-list stars signing autographs. NOTE: I do not consider Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi” D-List. (via TMN)

Advice: “Guys have difficulty empathizing. If your friend has some shitty news, shut up and buy him a beer already.” (via ryanfreitas)

things

The 1991 Pro Set You! MTV Raps card collection. (via coudal)

Road sign copy editor. (via TMN)

For my peers who may find themselves hopelessly adrift. WHAT THE FUCK SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE? (via doobybrain)

Some grammar over breakfast: when to use i.e..

Illustrations from the Little Book of Shocking Eco Facts. (via goodproblem)

Really? J.D. Salinger’s used toilet on sale for $1 million. (via TMN)

FiveBooks dares you to“Become an instant expert.” (via TMN)

Every day an eminent writer, thinker, commentator, politician, academic chooses five books on their specialist subject. From Einstein to Keynes, Iraq to the Andes, Communism to Empire. Share in the knowledge and buy the books.

Even muppets make mistakes: Emmet Otter’s Jub Band Christmas Bloopers.

Lessons Learned

Pressing Forward

Really cool stuff going on with the Newspaper Club, helping anyone design, print, and distribute their own newspaper. Check out their case studies.

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Differences between Google and other social media technology. “Google apps are for working and getting things done; social apps are for interacting and having fun.” Good piece here. (via Kottke)

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Diggin’ some of the tunes I have found on CLLCT, a free music community. It is like a commune, for music.

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“The Jumper Colon.” Dependent clause + colon + just about anything = punchy punctuation. It’s new slang for writers. (via Kottke)

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The web needs editors. “Real Editors Ship.” (via Ftrain.com)

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Things on the Internet

(Image via Film The Blanks)

Some notables from my early morning browsing…

-Clay Shirky on why paywalls will under perform. (via guardian)

“Look, we got erotic novels, first crack out of the box, once we had printing presses. It took a century and a half for the Royal Society to start publishing the first scientific journal in English. So even with the sacred printing press, the first things you get serve the basest human urges. But the presence of the erotic novels did not prevent us from pressing the printing presses into the service of the scientific revolution. And so I think every bit of time spent fretting about the fact that people have base desires which they will use this medium to satisfy is a waste of time – because that’s been true of every medium ever launched.”

-Prince has declared that the Internet is completely over. And that is that. (via mirror.co.uk)

-And further confusing the distinction between high and low culture, “How I Used Twitter to Live-Blog the Opera.” (via wired)

-I have been listening to The Joy Formidable incessantly. KEXP has a download of their tune “The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade,” get after it.

The Joy Formidable — The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade (MP3)

Punk Kids and Copyright

Composer Jason Robert Brown’s fight with a teen girl about copyright [via].

Brown: How are you supporting me by stealing my song off the Internet? Why are you entitled to get the sheet music for free?

Brenna: Now, if I hadn’t been able to get the sheet music for free, I would have probably done a different song. But, since I was able to get it, how much more money was made? This isn’t just a fluke thing. It happens. I’ve heard songs at talent shows or in theatre final exams and decided to see the show because of the one song. And who knows how they got the music? It may have been the same for them and if they hadn’t been able to get it free, they would have done something else.
I answered your question. Do you have any intention of ever answering mine? Don’t think I didn’t notice that you avoided answering.

Information Fasting

Image via fffound!

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

-Alain De Botton

Summer Begins…

It is now mid-June, which means that it must have been about five months since I updated this site. Lament no longer, I am here with updates.

I graduated.

I got a job.

I skateboarded.

I slept in.

I have not worn shorts yet.

What next???

Best Site Ever

Furthering my case for why breakfast is the greatest meal.

Jim’s Pancakes.