I miss reading my friends and people I learned from daily via RSS in (the old) Google Reader. Here’s an amazing walkthrough of what could have been… Google’s Lost Social Network: “Pre-Twitter, it was the essential aggregation tool for news and information junkies. But Reader had also became a social network in its own right.…
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Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Spotify etc are all fantastic… but at the end of the day you have to bring it all back home.
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It’s amazing to think that one instrument has pretty much provided the soundtrack of my life: Trigger: Texas Monthly December 2012: “Without Willie, there would be no Trigger. And it’s only a slight exaggeration to say that without Trigger, there would be no Willie. Willie likes to say that his guitar will probably wear out…
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Too funny… need to do an updated one of these. What’s In My Bag August 19 2007 | Flickr I’m so excited that Flickr is gaining momentum again. I’ve been a member there since 2004 and have thousands of images loaded up there (backed up in other places of course). It really is the story…
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Made me smile and tear up at the same time… Miss that old man!
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I’m insanely excited to be using Field Notes again. I switch back and forth between Moleskines and Field Notes notebooks, but I’ve definitely missed the feel and experience of a good ad useful notebook lately since being away from Field Notes. Sure, there are digital ways to capture todos and tasks and thoughts and notes,…
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So insanely awesome (and yes, I will DRIVE up to Chicago for the Indiana Jones exhibit): UChicago College Admissions, Mischief Managed For those of you who have…: “According to Paul, this package was en route from him in Guam to his intended recipient IN ITALY (registered mail confirmation attached) when it must have fallen out…
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From 2008: The vanishing personal site – Jeffrey Zeldman: “Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed personal site containing professional information, links, and brief bursts of frequently updated content to which others respond via…
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One of the best reviews I’ve read in a long while… ‘The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey,’ by Peter Jackson – NYTimes.com: “Over all, though, the shiny hyper-reality robs Middle-earth of some of its misty, archaic atmosphere, turning it into a gaudy high-definition tourist attraction. But of course it will soon be overrun with eager…
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Sad tale of a gorgosaurus that has, fortunately, been fossilized to preserve an amazing CSI-esque amount of data: Who knew that brain tumors could show up in the fossil record and be responsible for a scary dino having two broken legs and a busted shoulder? Gotta love science.