August 2008
36 posts
“The world has always been more impressed with the power of our example than the...”
– Bill Clinton in his speech at the DNC. (via fred-wilson)
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them...”
– Steve Jobs (via okdork.com)
“Making ‘The Wire’ Panel July 30, 2008”
– Moving Image Pinewood Dialogues
“Never make an enemy out of a mentally ill person with a good income.”
– George Carlin
ied:
David Lee Roth - Running with the Devil -...
“First off: Reputation, Posterity and Cool are traps. They’ll drain the life from...”
– Patton Oswalt’s graduation speech to his former high school
Perhaps the best grad speech I’ve ever come across. Substantive, well thought out, and sincere.
(via rickyv)
rickyv:
I saw Patrick reading The Fountainhead today and so I asked him to respond to any email I write to him this week in the voice of someone who just stared reading The Fountainhead for the first time.
E-mail from me to Editorial:
Had a meeting with <BRAND> this morning and they really loved our ideas.
Great job, everybody.
E-mail back from Patrick:
I didn’t create those...
Quick Fact
rickyv:
The number of children in China who take piano lessons > the total number of US children
David Byrne Journal: 06.10.2008: Voice of Julio →
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather...”
– Twitter / why the lucky stiff: when you don’t create thing…
WatchRichard Dawkins: The Genius of Charles Darwin - Episode 1
Polly Toynbee and David Walker: an extract from... →
The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever. But that doesn’t seem to bother Britain’s wealthiest earners. In an extract from their new book, Polly Toynbee and David Walker describe the jaw-dropping arrogance they encountered when they asked some of the fat cats to justify their lives of luxury
Watch(via Google Video)
Cotto vs margarito →
andrew →
“When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year...”
– Danny Hillis
