Q: People say he killed the Newton – your pet project – out of revenge. Do you think he did it for revenge?
Sculley: Probably. He won’t talk to me, so I don’t know.
This interview with John Sculley is full of eye openers & jaw droppers.
Everyone has an image of the large-bellied, bearded, balding Buddha figure that Ginsberg became. But to play the young Ginsberg, you, the actor, must be slim and clean-shaven and must dye your hair black—your full head of hair. You must wear thick-framed glasses. You must apply prostheses to your ears to make them stick out.
randomwalks/sudama is a James Franco fansite.
Who buys copious amounts of unsalted, unbuttered popcorn? It's messed up.
The truth about homicide is that it is black men in their 20s, in their 30s, in their 40s. The way we guide money and policy in this country, we do not care about those people.
These lyrics were just the same when we did them again in American accents. There was nothing different, and all of a sudden, people were saying, 'Oh, wow. They're just as good as Eminem.' But in the Scottish accent, they're saying, 'Oh, no. They don't have any talent.'
The Fake 'American' Rappers Who Fooled Everyone, www.npr.org
When this idea came to me, I was really excited and euphoric even. It’s not often you get a chance to say something new about Newton’s laws.
via www.nytimes.com
The way the story frames this, what we have been taught to think of as gravity may simply be probability: the universe settling into the most likely configuration. Think electron orbitals, think Scott Adams' God's Debris, Think Douglas Adams' Heart of Gold.
The most interesting thing I know about W. S. Merwin is that he once got into a terrible battle with Allen Ginsberg and Ginsberg's Tibetan guru over an episode of forced nakedness at a poetry party (this weird history is chronicled in a previous Litkicks article, When Hippies Battle: The Great W. S. Merwin/Allen Ginsberg Beef of 1975).
via www.litkicks.com
this is a narrative based explicitly on Asian roots, and for a movie that lavishes in the history and beauty of Eastern culture its casting of White actors in the lead “hero” roles is racist and ethnocentric.
via splinterend.tumblr.com via Roger Ebert's tweeting
Drilling will resume in deep water. That's where the oil is… people all around the world are going farther offshore and farther into deeper waters. So we have to develop methods to recover hydrocarbons, and do it in a much safer way.... It kind of creeps up on you, but this tragedy is a wakeup call.
Energy secretary says 'top kill' should have been tried earlier, www.latimes.com, 22 June 2010
The Nobel-prize winning Secretary of Energy of the United States is on the case!
Those of you who know what a "switch" is may also remember what it felt like to be whipped with one. Child abuse? Probably. But these were people who'd seen people they knew dangling from trees by ropes. ...They were deathly afraid that we would act out in the wrong place at the wrong time and wind up as dead as those long lost relations. It was the only way they knew of making it clear just how dire our circumstances truly were.
One time we took out half of a Volkswagen. How did it end up there? We don’t know. One time we took out a fifteen metre roll of carpet that was obstructing a whole pipe. Really, anything you can think of, we can find it in the sewage.
Julio Cou Cámara is one of only two sewage divers in the world, working full time keeping Mexico City's trash streaming out of the city. Edible Geography is my new favorite blog.
Each of the balconies is held up by these fantastic wrought-iron dragons:
You've got to see the close-up of the dragon. Magnificent.
"Orange Beach, Alabama"
i had no idea D.C. had their own "design your D.C." cupcake challenge. amateur cake decorators showed off their stuff at hello cupcake last week. how cool is that? i kind of wish i could have been there. the metro map cupcake below is my favorite. to see all the cupcake entries, click here.
D.C.'s Metro Map cupcakeNom Obama cupcakeBen's Chili Bowl cupcake
via taza-and-husband.blogspot.com
Unbearably awesome.
via tim.shey.net
If your users are activating Safari Reader on your site, this means that the default user experience of your site is so bad that your users first consciously notice that they have trouble reading an article on your site, then remember that they might be able to fix it using Safari Reader, and then actually activate that feature.
"Boom"
The Song Decoders at Pandora - NYTimes.com
"‘Was the music just wrong?’ Because we sometimes have data errors,” he recounts. “He said, ‘Well, no, it was the right sort of thing — but it was Celine Dion.’ I said, ‘Well, was it the set, did it not flow in the set?’ He said, ‘No, it kind of worked — but it’s Celine Dion.’ We had a couple more back-and-forths, and finally his last e-mail to me was: ‘Oh, my God, I like Celine Dion.’
Let's look for deft, English alternatives: use Twitter, post to or on Twitter, write on Twitter, a Twitter message, a Twitter update.
'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet', www.theawl.com, 10 June 2010
I respect the Times' position that "tweet" is colloquial, neological jargon to be avoided. But: deft?!
Saying something is so does not make it so.
Floss, you know, use salt, baking soda, get them professionally cleaned, you know, for a bit, take care of your damn teeth.
Patti Smith addressing Pratt Institute's 121st commencement ceremony, www.mediabistro.com
via @stevesilberman
The one internet privacy policy that really matters is your own. If you want it private, don’t share it. Because what’s private today might be public tomorrow. Period.
Are We Really Dumb Zucks?, tweetagewasteland.com
True.
We had a pretty good laugh at the thought of blinking text, and talked about blinking this and that and how absurd the whole thing would be. ...I remember thinking that this would be a pretty harmless easter egg, that no one would really use it, but I was very wrong.
The Origin of the Blink Tag, www.montulli.org
Oh. My. God.
Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that we can draw strands of silk between the resources presented in your app. That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content.
This is a time for children to explore the immediate environment (backyard, neighborhood, nearby parks) in a way that is hands-on and full of joy. It’s not a time for them to worry about environmental tragedies.
How to Talk with Kids About the Gulf Oil Spill, www.nwf.org
Ranger Rick speaks the truth.
