December 2011
10 posts
“I protect the word “gamification” by placing quotes around it. The quotes stop...”
How the Internet Gets Inside Us →
That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in communication we’re living with are unprecedented. It isn’t just that we’ve lived one technological revolution among many; it’s that our technological revolution is the big social revolution that we live with.
“[T]he way I look at it, we’ve only got two options: we can either buckle down...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Look, We Can Either Study for Our Law School Finals, or We Can Bring About the Violent Dissolution of the American Legal System.
Medical History: Patient BW, DOB 2/16/1971 →
Patient: Wayne, Bruce
DOB: 2/16/1971
Occupation: Industrialist
Insurance: Self-pay
WatchEd Yong said it best: “NEEEEEEEYAAAAAWWWWWWWW”
“All-London drivers - also known as Green Badge drivers - need a detailed...”
– The Knowledge | Transport for London
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses →
Among his many skills, Mark Twain also possessed the ability to critique a work with such poetic savagery that his targets would be rendered illiterate:
A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not...
Nanolaw with Daughter (Ftrain.com) →
“You have to think about yourself not as a person but as data.”
“[I]f Emma Sullivan wanted to use her First Amendment right to make fun of Sam...”
– Why Emma Sullivan Is Good for Democracy - Garrett Epps - National - The Atlantic