Inside, once you pass the checkpoint, free food, free beer on taps, somewhere between a coffeeshop and a hackerspace, a bunch of rich people on macbooks with the appropriate stickers. Then back outside to the street to watch people die on your way to a microbrewery. A long drawn out argument about scala as you avoid eye contact with the rest of the world.
This is why I don’t wish to move to SF.
Come here and work on hard problems… except the ones on our doorstep.—programming is terrible
Wow, this is crazy. “Sorrow” is a dark, depressing song from their previous album, “High Violet”, which was released in 2010.
From the comments:
Eventually we started to cheer for The National between the end and beginning of each iteration. We wanted them to succeed. We all became increasingly invested in the experience; well, as much as our bodies and minds would allow.
A really interesting exploration to the temporary nature of live music, to repetitive work, and to performance art.
Thom Yorke - Ingenue (Live Jonathan Ross Show) (by biffythecat1)
We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators — we look at the hot sexy app or service of the nanomoment and we try to put just enough of a spin on it that we can pass it off as our own. We call ourselves problem-solvers, but the evidence suggests the problems we want to solve are what are usually referred to as “First World” problems.
[…] But technologists used to work on big problems. Not First World problems, but whole world problems — sending humans to the moon, ending poverty, ending disease. They didn’t do it because it was gonna get them a big badass IPO, or get them on the front page of VentureBeat, or get them fawned over at SxSW. Forgive me, but those are stupid reasons to do anything.
Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu [Official Video] (by janellemonae)
(Warning: It’s Buzzfeed, so it’s a bit linkbait-y.)
《恩典太貴重(成萬蚊的消費)》
這天，如聚於主聖殿，還首要計算身家
喜樂和平全餐計成圍，茶水芥已計才算經濟
你無錢，如聚於主聖殿，門口要八百蚊位
高價買賣耶穌的情緣，窮家卻見血誰願施濟？恩典太貴重，成萬蚊的消費
傳揚福音如同搶錢 來證實主愛的矜貴
基督愛世人，鈔票先要獻別人
才覺釘痕沒有枉費
I recently saw a Charlie Rose interview with John Lasseter, a founder of Pixar, about the creative process behind his movies. Pixar’s in-house theory is: Be wrong as fast as you can. Mistakes are an inevitable part of the creative process, so get right down to it and start making them. Even great ideas are wrecked on the road to fruition and then have to be painstakingly reconstructed. “Every Pixar film was the worst motion picture ever made at one time or another,” Lasseter said. “People don’t believe that, but it’s true. But we don’t give up on the films.
Cat Power - Manhattan (by CatPowerVEVO)
This is a beautiful video for a beautiful song.
Brilliant work (as always) from McSweeney’s:
I am writing to apply for the position of Pope. I recently received my Bachelor of Arts, or “artium baccalaureus,” from Dartmouth College, with a major concentration in Theatre Studies and a minor concentration in Computer Science. While I have been focusing on the technology and financial sectors, I have recently decided to widen my job search to include top non-profits, such as your organization. I became aware of the availability of the position of Pope through the Dartmouth listserv; I am greatly impressed by the achievements of The Catholic Church and share many of its goals. I believe my qualifications and outlook make me a unique and interesting candidate for Pope and I would be enthusiastic to grow with The Catholic Church.
就筆者在微博及內地其他輿論陣地所見，對香港、對台灣、甚至對美國口誅筆伐的人當中，很多都用上「濫用自由」、「消費民主」之類的字眼。他們有自己對民主、自由、新聞等普世價值的追求，但對正在實踐這些價值的國家、地區，卻處處看不順眼。
這是怎麼回事？筆者認為，這其實只是內地人不能接受「理想與事實」落差使然。他們心中有美好的價值，但這種價值是象牙塔中的價值，甚至是過時的價值。賈文中言，「『中立客觀』是新聞準則」；如果以這種新聞觀炮轟新聞媒體，則不只香港，全世界的媒體都會應聲而倒。
[…]
同樣，《低俗喜劇》也就是經過彭浩翔過濾後表現出來的香港文化。賈小姐對彭浩翔「販售和消費低俗」、「鼓勵港人反智」等等指控，全都建基於電影就是應該文藝（賈文中竟把《低俗喜劇》視為文藝片）、應該引導大眾、教化大眾的媒介這一種過高又過時的要求。
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