January 2011
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Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed. →
A letter from renowned film editor and sound designer Walter Murch to Robert Ebert.
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We're only socially isolated when we're together →
While the web has flattened geography and allowed us to develop new types of relationships, it’s also degrading the quality of our face-to-face interactions.
“Internet users’ biggest social challenge is that we’re Internet users. We came. We saw. We checked-in. We Tweeted. We Facebooked. We Podcasted. We Instagrammed. We left. And we went home and got online.
The web is great at...
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“If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant...”
– George Carlin, our era’s most perceptive political commentator, disguised as a comedian. (via marco)
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“…people in the newspaper industry saw the web as a newspaper. People in TV saw...”
– Paul Ford
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On Resolutions: Stop Blaming the Pancake →
Merlin Mann on the futility of New Years resolutions. He even references one of my favourite Seinfeld bits.
I’ll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and resolve is actually a terrific marker that you’re not really ready to change anything in a grownup and sustainable way. You probably just want another magic wand.
Otherwise you’d already be doing the things...
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Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web... →
Marco Arment gets it right on Google Search. I, too, have been watching the slow and steady decline in search result quality over the past few years.
marco:
Searching Google is now like asking a question in a crowded flea market of hungry, desperate, sleazy salesmen who all claim to have the answer to every question you ask.