November 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
“Where does this stuff come from? It comes from sensory deprivation. It comes...”
– Jonathan Franzen
April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
5 posts
“Although we may recognize the importance of hard work, the glamour of success...”
– Nick Southgate on Being Effortless
“As in politics,” he says, “the immediate trumps the important.” Our...”
– Long-Term Thinking and Climate Change » Lone Gunman
“Modern cosmology theory holds that our universe may be just one in a vast...”
– Sputnik Observatory » Life Beyond Our Universe
“We will not, especially in the United States, avoid our Götterdämmerung. Obama,...”
– Chris Hedges: Zero Point of Systemic Collapse | Adbusters
February 2010
1 post
December 2009
6 posts
“We live in the age of distraction, of Twitter and multi-tasking and short...”
– Steven Pressfield
WatchUn jeu si simple
Gilles Groulx, 1964, 29 min 45 s, ONF
(via Julien Cayer)
November 2009
5 posts
October 2009
2 posts
September 2009
6 posts
Rien n’est plus utile que de vivre tranquille, de parler peu avec les autres et beaucoup avec nous-mêmes (Sénèque, à propos de Twitter)
Book Titles, If They Were Written Today
yourmonkeycalled:
Then: The Wealth of Nations Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them
Then: Walden Now: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American Tuscany
Then: The Theory of the Leisure Class Now: Buying Out Loud: The Unbelievable Truth About What We Consume and What It Says About Us
Then: The Gospel of Matthew Now: 40 Days...
Luna :: Sweet Child ‘O Mine Guns n’ Roses cover
August 2009
20 posts
“Tellingly, the adults in modern teen films are no longer clueless squares who...”
– How John Hughes’s Teenagers Took Over the World — New York Magazine
IKEA abandons Futura for Verdana
lonelysandwich:
From Typophile:
IKEA abandons ~50 years of Futura and Century Schoolbook for Verdana. In an interview with Swedish design magazine CAP&DESIGN [translation here] the reason for the change is to be able to use the same font in all countries, including Asian countries. Also they want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and the web.
I’ve never been a fan...
“STATUS UPDATES SINCE MY MOTHER BECAME MY FACEBOOK FRIEND.
BY SCOTT A. HARRIS
...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Status Updates Since My Mother Became My Facebook Friend.
“After months of committee meetings and hundreds of hours of heated debate, the...”
– L’impasse autour de la réforme américaine de l’assurance-santé, selon The Onion.
WatchAlain de Botton à TED 2009.
Notes from our Lifehacks session
betaworks:
Books mentioned
Getting Things Done by Dave Allen
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
A Perfect Mess by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman
Videos mentioned
Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Inbox Zero by Merlin Mann
Two broad groups identified: the GTD types and the Scruffy / Erosionary types. Three principles to the...
“And yet, I finally had to face the fact that the Madonna I had loved for...”
– Emily Nussbaum Remembers Why She Fell for Madonna and Tries to Learn to Care Again — New York Magazine
Le micro-paiement vu par Charlie Brooker →
“Just really asking yourself how you know whether you have enough of anything—be...”
– Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start | 43 Folders
La Génération X et ses habiletés de leadership →
À propos du désir obsessif de documenter et... →
“During my wasted life, I’ve drunk quite a bit of beer and read quite a lot...”
– A profound philosophical question: can a beer drink itself? | The Guardian
July 2009
16 posts
“The ancient Romans and Greeks made no distinction between philosophy, therapy...”
– The worst that could happen? Bring it on, says Oliver Burkeman | The Guardian