The Z340 is a great party trick, and I think it could stand in for, say, those disposable cameras they leave on tables at wedding receptions. But if you’re looking for nostalgia, you’ll instead re-learn the depressing lesson that you can’t go home again.
I still have a novel that I was given by a friend in college because of the note inside, which says, “Dear Brian, there is a character in this book that is a jerk and reminds me of you. Happy Birthday, Matt.” Basically, a note turns a book into a heavy letter that is hard to lose and that has 300 pages of side story.
Johnny Cash’s To-Do List. This site = immediate obsession. (via Lists of Note)
It’s like she was plucked from an anime to dance and play violin for us OMG SQUEEEEEE // Electric Daisy Violin- Lindsey Stirling (by lindseystomp)
So GPOY
How I shop: product descriptions
Every Amazon book description and probably 80% of app descriptions I come across are tl;dr. Sound bites from “celebrity” reviewers are universally worthless and are ignored with the most extreme prejudice. Instead, I read the first couple sentences, look at every screenshot, and the best and worst reviews and make up my mind from that.
Levo League: Letting Go of Your Desire to be Liked
Yeah, don’t even read this wishy-washy time waster post. I mean, sure…it touches on a topic that it wouldn’t hurt me to think about, but it doesn’t include any attitude adjustment techniques and wtf does having the words “like and umm” in your vocabulary have to do with an article about BEING liked? Did the editor even look at this??
It’s no secret. RSS is for dorks. Maybe even megadorks.
Google has an RSS feeder called Reader. It’s been wildly unpopular, to the point where some of its features have been shut down. So why am I even suggesting you do it?
The Marriage Plot vs. Twilight vs. the World | The Hairpin
A hilarious comparison (and so true, at least for the 2nd half of The Marriage Plot) devolves into an analysis of GWTW in the comments. I love every word that’s ever been written on this blog and want to move to New York so I can live closer to these people, since that’s where they all seem to be.
PS: #teamAshley
PPS: Jane Marie (who didn’t write this particular post) is my new spirit animal.
It may seem like a good idea to avoid the “perception of bias” by insisting that media employees hide who they are from the audience. Perhaps it was once even tenable. It no longer is. To build your credibility on viewlessness is to concede, every time an employee of yours is shown to be a sentient, opinionated person, that your credibility has taken a hit.
[W]omen my age (I’m 29), the daughters and granddaughters of the post-Betty Friedan feminists, are embracing the very homemaking activities our mothers and grandmothers so eagerly shucked off. We’re heading back to jam-canning and knitting needles, both for fun and for a greater sense of control over what we eat and wear.
THIS (via polaroid)
Homemade pinhole polaroid (by butter_fry)
Having an opinion takes work. […] It means drilling deeper than the conventionally polarizing opinions that a topic is simply awesome, it totally sucks, or it’s completely irrelevant to you. Chances are, it’s a little bit of all three, but that type of ambiguity is mentally exhausting, right? Can’t we just love or hate? It’s so much easier to yell when it’s right versus wrong or us versus them.
No one’s really hiding the secret of how to make awesome online communities. Give people something cool to do and a way to talk to each other, moderate a little bit, and your job is done. […] MetaFilter, Reddit, LiveJournal and SA all started with a couple of buttons and a textfield and have produced some fascinating subcultures. And maybe the purest (!) example is 4chan, a Lord of the Flies community that invents all the stuff you end up sharing elsewhere: image macros, copypasta, rage comics, the lolrus. The data model for 4chan is three fields long - image, timestamp, text.
Now tell me one bit of original culture that’s ever come out of Facebook.
