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'At first glance it looks like just another GTD-oriented series of charts, but closer inspection reveals that the series draws inspirations from techniques used in video games.'
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'Born from a desire to focus my time more productively. For me, that means things that make my freelance practice sustainable and fun.'
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An overview of the semiotic ouroboros that is hipsterism/hipster backlash.
links for 2009-06-30
links for 2009-06-29
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'You might think that -y would resist suffixation on words already ending with the /i/ vowel, but you would be wrong. Mark has found a ton of "double-y" words in the wild, like jealousy-y, technology-y, and secret identity-y. The nonce formation that takes the cake, though, is mystery-y-ish-y.'
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'Absolutely all of us were flamboyant back then, both in dress and manner. We wore silk scarves and beads and baby blue bellbottoms (we were just taking hippie a few steps further) and we also styled our longer hair…. So, when you see the pictures today, we may look like drag queens, but we were really only “fem and fierce.”'
links for 2009-06-28
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'One group, the Ulster Volunteer Force, said it had destroyed its entire stockpile of weaponry during a secret June 12 meeting with disarmament chiefs. The other, the Ulster Defense Association, said it had handed over its first, unspecified portion of its arsenal and would continue the process in coming months.'
Today’s walk.
Parks are imagined as a respite from the city that surrounds them, but the city always finds its way in.
links for 2009-06-26
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'Imagine existing in that funhouse body for ten minutes, living with the irreclaimable warping, knowing that you're a part of history, and doomed. I don't apologize for liking his music, or excuse anything else he did, but I have to wonder what the autopsy will say about his heart, and if it just broke, in the end.'
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'Michael Jackson, whose quintessentially American tale of celebrity and excess took him from musical boy wonder to global pop superstar to sad figure haunted by lawsuits and failed plastic surgery, was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon at U.C.L.A. Medical Center after arriving in a coma, a city official said. Mr. Jackson was just 50 years old, having spent 39 of those years in the public eye he loved.'
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'Paramedics responded to a call at Jackson's home at 12:26 p.m. He was not breathing when they arrived. The paramedics performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and took him to the hospital… pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.'
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When did Gama turn into a fansite rather than an industry news site? Comments thread has some interesting stuff.
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The botanical garden is spared a gate fee, but other services are not so lucky.
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'A region of space filled recursively with 15 bit combinatoric objects affectionately called Invaders.'
links for 2009-06-25
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Unconference for people working in games for product research, design, etc.
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T-shirts to celebrate your favorite area code. (No 612 or 503, though? Boo.)
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Shirts to celebrate your favorite (or least favorite?) bus/rail line.
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Muzyka head of the combined studio, Zeschuk CCO, Denton COO, Jacobs gone.
links for 2009-06-24
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'The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could also be included in other materials for managers. They will list transgender people — those who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates — as among several groups protected by antidiscrimination laws.'
links for 2009-06-23
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'A love of baseball plus a love of infographics equals Flip Flop Fly Ball.'
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I'm apparently an ANCL, for what it's worth.
joshleejosh.com.
At last, the quest to wrest control of my name from all those dead senators, financial analysts, and random college students begins! Today, a game of ego-Concentration, tomorrow the top of Google.
links for 2009-06-21
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'Impatient with the bromides of our therapeutic age, Nehring is trying to make a case for love as a source of suffering. For her, love is a heroic act because it involves suffering…. Her zeal can seem adolescent. But her view usefully jolts our goal-oriented view of marriage and restores a vision of love as itself the quest that rewards brave vulnerability—an oxymoron not to be underrated.'