January 2011
55 posts
“What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the...”
– Egypt Leaves the Internet - Renesys Blog
“Jon Stewart, the satirical host of “The Daily Show” who used his television...”
– Imagine reading this in 2001.
Jon Stewart Named to Ground Zero Board - NYTimes.com
Study: 27% of Americans Use Facebook Mobile in... →
ONLY 27%? I would have thought it was least 60%.
murketing:
The results underscore the proliferation of consumer social media usage and their strong need to stay connected,” said Thomas Harpointner, CEO of AIS Media. “For businesses and brands, social media offers an opportunity to engage potential customers like never before.”
I’m not normally a Bonnie Prince Billy fan,...
“So pretty much what all of this fancy technology used by the study has found is...”
– Frank Chimero
“Writing and reading allow one consciousness to find and take shelter in another....”
– Video games: the addiction | From the Observer | The Observer
“Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t...”
– World’s funniest joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The world’s funniest joke is very morbid.
“The guards, disease, starvation and exposure were not all that prisoners had to...”
– Someone needs to make a movie about this.
Andersonville National Historic Site - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romancing The Looky-Loos, by Dave Hickey →
essayist:
This is a pretty bitchin’ essay about why artists feel they need to court the approval/attention of the general public. It features Waylon Jennings, so… get involved. (click to download)
“In a world where practically everything and anywhere is aestheticized, and...”
– A critical cold frame | things magazine
things magazine is one of the best things on the Internet. The whole Internet.
“Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy;...”
– President Barack Obama (via soupsoup)
“Whether or not his speech will reorient the national conversation along...”
– Obama’s Speech in Tucson - Joshua Green - Politics - The Atlantic
“Although pizza has some old Italian antecedents, American pizza as we know it...”
– Pizza effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Freedom is the perfect New Year’s resolution, a simple productivity...”
– Thinking of trying this. I’m a little scared.
Freedom - Windows and Mac Internet Blocking Software
“It’s time to put to rest the idea that there is a basic adversarial relationship...”
– Museum 2.0: Open Letter to Arianna Huffington, Edward Rothstein, and Many Other Museum Critics (via artprize)
“I believe there’s a tremendous hunger for serious art criticism out there — it...”
– Total Eclipse of the Art: The Rise of Art News and the Crisis of Art Criticism - ARTINFO.com
ArtPrize: Patton Oswalt and Sherrie Levine →
artprize:
Sherrie Levine – Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp), 1991
Comedian Patton Oswalt recently wrote a piece for Wired called Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die, about how the Internet blasts once-obscure nerd minutia into the mainstream. It’s 1/3 cranky, 1/3 brilliant, and 1/3 hilarious.
He says, “Why create anything new when there’s a mountain of freshly excavated pop culture to recut,...
