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Nicholas Molnar
Wantering co-founder, Fuck Cancer board member, and the guy who ate your canteloupe.
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- Change that Twitter password @katie_dunsworth. Y'got phished.Jan 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Swizz Beats is the CEO of MegaUpload. And not like Kenny Powers is the CEO of K-Swiss, either. Weird. http://t.co/6Tw9z2Ke
- "When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of..." http://t.co/qWdo3rTi
- RT @jeffjacobson: seeing the internet unified in a way that only happens when someone really famous dies
- Fight the internet and it's gonna fight back
- Rescuing a stray puppy. Not stealing. I swear. http://t.co/bRQgyujZ
- Cheery Sunday reading: the WEF's Global Risks Report. http://t.co/aeGeHLDc
- Big thanks to @SophiaBush for slipping subliminal messages into the One Tree Hill premiere tonight to get people to donate...I assume
- RT @letsfcancer: Cue jumping up &down in excitement!We won the #FirefoxChallenge! Thank you so much to everyone that donated &helped...
- RT @msfuckcancer: An hour left to help @letsfcancer win $25K!!! We are SO close! http://t.co/TwJWOWku
- Why aren't there more javascript hackers building new features on top of Tumblr? Or fun apps that use the API?
- Rogennnnnnn! Grrr. http://t.co/hN6fXucU
- 'I can't decide what hoodie to wear today' #shitvancouveritessay
- RT @letsfcancer: Your walls need some #FUCKCANCER artwork, pronto! Buy them now http://t.co/kZkeZ5f6 and help us win the #FirefoxChallenge
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Posts
Candidly, those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake,” Dodd told Fox News. “Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
It’s the kind of open threat you’d be shocked to find on TV in a failed state. Normally blackmail is done behind closed doors. Statements like that shine light on the grim reality of how American politics really works. I don’t think most people are even surprised by the reality of it (take a look at the approval rating for Congress to see how little trust the public gives them), but it is shocking that the system is so broken that a seasoned political operative can actually conduct blackmail on national TV and think its remotely OK.
Getting money out of politics is the magical issue where the Occupiers, the Stop Sopa crusaders, the Tea Party, and the mainstream voter are all in agreement. It’ll be messy, but its also a once-in-a-generation chance to reform the American political system.
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman (via azspot)I guarantee you whatever story you file will treat this as a problem caused by everyone except the readers at The Observer and that will be false. The problem is caused by people who would like a little help spying on their friends. And in a genteel way, that’s what the social media offers. They get to surveil other people. In return for a little bit of the product, they assist the growth of these immense commercial spying operations.
Remember the olden days when the carriers were in charge and you got whatever they were serving for dinner? Well we aren’t ever going back to that but I can’t help remember a conversation I had with the head of product for a US carrier last year at Mobile World Congress where he told me that their ideal world was “5-10 platforms with 10-20% each.” Why? Because in that mess someone has to help the user figure it all out and they are back to being in a pole position.
Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you
Interesting perspective. Personally, I see fragmentation as more of a win for the open web than carrier-controlled app distribution, but I can see why they’d think they have a shot at staying relevant.
A Paul/Obama race would at the very least lead to amazing debates. Even if there’s too much crazy thrown into the mix to make Paul electable, he’s willing to challenge some of the biggest assumptions in American politics. It’d make great TV.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
Can’t wait to see it. If ‘Happiness On Investment’ was how we ranked organizations, Improv Everywhere would be up at the top of the Fortune 500.
Shirtify - the music you listen to on a shirt, bands get paid.
My friend Matt made this with his friend. It’s awesome.
- Said Dr. Timothy Leary
“Turn on’ meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. ‘Tune in’ meant interact harmoniously with the world around you – externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. ‘Drop Out’ meant self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean ‘Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.” - Timothy Leary
Under current copyright law, nearly every cover song on YouTube is technically illegal. Every fan-made music video, every mashup album, every supercut, every fanfic story? Quite probably illegal, though largely untested in court.
No amount of lawsuits or legal threats will change the fact that this behavior is considered normal — I’d wager the vast majority of people under 25 see nothing wrong with non-commercial sharing and remixing, or think it’s legal already.
Our cell phones, laptops and other electronics. The deadliest war in the world, raging in the Congo. There is a direct link: “conflict minerals”. Rising Hollywood stars like Ken Baumann and Anna Lynne McCord have had enough, and they’re demanding conflict-free electronics, to help end the violence.
To learn more, visit www.raisehopeforcongo.org.There are no more counter cultures, only sub-cultures. Even the concept of sub-cultures, when examined in the dictionary, sounds more like advertising jargon than anything else.
The Umbrella Man by Errol Morris
In an exclusive short film for The New York Times, Errol Morris sheds light on one of the more bizarre and lesser-known conspiracies of the JFK assassination; that of the lone, suited man in the Zapruder film who stands under an open umbrella in a creepy, Magritte-like fashion. In classic Morris style, while the story is great, his loopy interview subject is half of what makes the piece so entertaining. It’s only six minutes long, but apparently this is the first in a series! Cannot wait.
(via indieWIRE)
These are 3D Models of coffee cups that can be printed on demand by Shapeways. There are very few things that are ‘The Internet’ sized opportunities out there. Things that can dramatically change every piece of the economy, and can have an impact globally. Look at the size of the markets it would disrupt if it took off, and you’ll see why. International shipping alone is a trillion dollar industry that would be increasingly irrelevant when anything can be printed anywhere. Why ship coffee cups from China when they can be printed on-demand from a Kinkos, or in your own house? Industrial parts are a massive business. What happens when 3D models of every part on earth wind up on The Pirate Bay? What happens to fashion when anyone can print off their own Prada sunglass frames?
I feel like it’s 1994. The ecosystem is starting to form, even if the tools are crude, and now the creatives are starting to show up and experiment with what’s possible.
Keep your eyes open. Five years from now, this is going to have seemed inevitable. I don’t know how or if I fit into this story, but I’ll definitely be watching it unfold.No movement should be beholden to a limited set of tactics. The colonial Americans didn’t just keep throwing boxes of tea into bodies of water.
Occupy Wall Street’s next move - CNN.com
This isn’t over. It’s barely gotten started.
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Recent Tracks
- Soft Shock by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Marijuana by Kid Cudi
- My Favorite Things by John Coltrane
- In The Still Of The Night by Django Reinhardt
- Bronte by Gotye
- Save Me by Gotye
- Giving Me A Chance by Gotye
- State Of The Art by Gotye
M83Childish GambinoPortugal. The ManOtis ReddingDrakeThe Magnetic FieldsTychoThe RaptureAretha FranklinLykke LiStarfuckerBombay Bicycle ClubKings of ConvenienceMinutemenBen FoldsThe Smashing PumpkinsDan ManganAmy WinehouseCollegeMetronomyFlorence + the MachineRJD2Neon IndianCarter BurwellTV On The RadioLana Del ReyLouis ArmstrongWilcoDestroyerThe AntlersCultsChuck BerryThe Tallest Man on EarthAtlas SoundtUnE-yArDsBathsCassiusBlitzen TrapperThe ThroneMarvin GayeJamie CullumThe Head And The HeartThe War On DrugsChicagoNeroRoman MarsThe Budos BandDJ ShadowBillie HolidayTed Leo and the Pharmacists- Ghostwriter by RJD216 plays
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