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May 20 2008
“ After a week or so [of job/customer service training], Zappo's says to its newest employees: “If you quit today, we will pay you for the amount of time you’ve worked, plus we will offer you a $1,000 bonus.”— Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit
If you’re willing to take the company up on the offer, you obviously don’t have the sense of commitment they are looking for. ”
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May 19 2008
Downtown is a little-known animated series that ran on MTV for a single season in 1999. Yeah, MTV – but don't expect superficial bubblegum entertainment here. Like on the more popular Daria, the main sympathetic characters are eccentric outcasts. Whereas Daria was all about a suburban high school, this series revolves around the daily lives of a diverse group of friends in their early twenties in New York.
The episodes are full of anecdotes gathered in real interviews conducted on the streets of NYC, lending a very realistic feel to the series, and especially the dialogues. While the storylines can get a little juvenile at times, the truly great animation more than makes up for that. The medium is used to full effect here, frequently mixing dream/imagination/storytelling sequences into everyday scenes with clever transitions. The great color schemes, likable lead characters and innovative electronic soundtrack are additional bonuses.
Above: Four minutes from the Insomnia episode.
More clips on YouTube:
The episodes are full of anecdotes gathered in real interviews conducted on the streets of NYC, lending a very realistic feel to the series, and especially the dialogues. While the storylines can get a little juvenile at times, the truly great animation more than makes up for that. The medium is used to full effect here, frequently mixing dream/imagination/storytelling sequences into everyday scenes with clever transitions. The great color schemes, likable lead characters and innovative electronic soundtrack are additional bonuses.
Above: Four minutes from the Insomnia episode.
More clips on YouTube:
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nex
May 18 2008
Garden path sentence - Wikipedia
The old man the boat.Top 5 artists this week
Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (TH/JP 2003; Last Life in the Universe) is the slow, slow, s l o o o o o w-paced story of a suicidal, emotionally repressed, obsessive-compulsive book nerd meeting and falling for an unruly girl. The glacial pace of the story is only very briefly punctuated by deadly accidents, multiple homicide and Yakuza assassination squads. And fart jokes.
The film's best moments are when it lets dream scenes and reality flow smoothly together. If only the characters weren't so plain and unlikable, and the movie's reality wasn't so drab. And slow, did I mention slow? 4/10
Above: The lead actors fast asleep, ten minutes into a screening of their own movie.
The film's best moments are when it lets dream scenes and reality flow smoothly together. If only the characters weren't so plain and unlikable, and the movie's reality wasn't so drab. And slow, did I mention slow? 4/10
Above: The lead actors fast asleep, ten minutes into a screening of their own movie.
Bizarre: Jon Stewart mentions Alfred Gusenbauer on the Daily Show (skip to 03:33 for context, the mention is around 04:00)
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May 17 2008
spotting stefan sagmeister @mumok
CocoRosie – By Your Side (fan-made video)
Live @ Arena on Monday
Live @ Arena on Monday
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Charles_LiebertMay 16 2008
“ [Richard Feynman's] motivation was not so much to understand the world as it was to find new ideas to explain. The act of discovery was not complete for him until he had taught it to someone else. ”— W. Daniel Hillis: Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine, via slim
net culture lab · make your own thing
Workshops, May 28–June 8: Fab@Home, Arduino/Lilypad, Wiimote whiteboard, etc.
Also featuring GRLv.
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Firefox 3 visual integration: I don't think any software project has attempted this level of visual integration to various operating systems before.
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Firefox 3 visual integration: I don't think any software project has attempted this level of visual integration to various operating systems before.
Seeing the new OSX interface made me stop and think how very few of the programs I use on a regular or semi-regular basis actually adopt Apple's look and feel on the Mac.
Eclipse, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, After Effects, current Firefox, Open Office, Processing, Blender... None of those feel Mac-ish.
Firefox 3 visual integration: I don't think any software project has attempted this level of visual integration to various operating systems before.
Seeing the new OSX interface made me stop and think how very few of the programs I use on a regular or semi-regular basis actually adopt Apple's look and feel on the Mac.
Eclipse, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, After Effects, current Firefox, Open Office, Processing, Blender... None of those feel Mac-ish.
philippe
3 months ago
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tchuntfrGarageGeeks
an Israeli not-profit space for innovative and creative people to introduce, network, expose, create, brainstorm, innovate and buildReposted by
May 15 2008
“ Ich bekenne mich schuldig, die Welt tut mir weh,— Gustav beginnt mit einem Ziegelstein ins Gesicht
Drum zieh ich die Schlüsse wenn ich Schlüssel seh,
Wenn Innen wie Aussen so blind sind wie wir,
Dann hilft nur das Warten, das Trinken von Bier,
Ja auch ich unterschreibe nun die Petition,
Ich bin für mehr Logik, für mehr Konzentration,
Rebelliere im Stillen, diskutiere banal,
Wenn man vieles verliert, ist dir vieles egal,
Ich habe beschlossen, ich gehe konform,
Ich stelle mich richtig, und entspreche der Norm,
Ich wollte viel ändern, und die Jahre sie vergeh'n,
Und ich hab nichts bewirkt, und es blieb alles steh'n,
Drum zieh ich die Schlüsse, wenn ich Schlüssel seh,
Ich wähl den Weg des Geringsten, denn der andre tut so weh,
So weh so weh,
Drum singet ihr Vögel (Tschiep Tschiep Tscharip)
Drum singet ihr Vögel, denn ich sing jetzt mit (Tschiep Tschiep Tscharip ”
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mzeltnerJon Stewart on "the long flat seemingly endless Bataan Death March to the White House", particularly West Virginia: one of the best Daily Show segments of the campaign so far.
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myheadObsessing
In-browser Processing.JS IDEMay 14 2008
“ Procrastination is our passive aggressiveness against a world gone mad. ”— grout4cake on Slate
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Facebook German Application Contest
August 31, 2008
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