are2:

Akira Kurosawa’s Paintings and Movie Frames Side by Side

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nedhepburn:

Ernest Hemingway: How the great American novelist became the literary equivalent of the Nike swoosh.

Really great write-up of Hemingway in Slate. Well worth a read whether you think you know the guy or not.

Today, it’s a shame that the “great occurrences” Hemingway, the biblically stylized voice, is the one that’s found his way into the popular imagination. It’s the other, earlier, more uncertain writing—the prose that openly struggles to track and parse a mess of a life—that gets into your blood. 

"The purity of human expression and experience is not confined to guitars, to tubes, to turntables, to microchips. There is no right way, no pure way, of doing. There is just doing."

Bruce Springsteen (via newspeedwayboogie)

(Source: NPR, via fred-wilson)

Why health and social media don't mix →

jayparkinsonmd:

Humans have invented tools to solve problems for themselves since day one. We need to bang something into the ground. That rock over there will work. We need to communicate with one another over a distance. Hey, how about some smoke signals?

The social web is just another tool to solve our…

ericmortensen:

charlietodd:

In Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, a presenter at the TED conference has his talk interrupted by the Mac spinning wait cursor, commonly known as the “Spinning Beach Ball of Death.” As he stands awkwardly and waits, things get weird.

Read the full story: Spinning Beach Ball of Death

Magic.

You have been interrupted =) 

(via nedhepburn)

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(Source: topherchris)

Bunker mode →

psql:

Sometimes it’s great to go out. Sometimes it’s great to go hiding. You don’t even need to be bummed out to enjoy it.

Bunker mode!

I call it a mode because it’s a switch I can toggle.

I make some of my best work in bunker mode. It’s nice to soak in thoughts for a while, and think them dry….

Just a thermostat →

The reason why Nest isn’t telling you the time, turning off the lights, adjusting your solar panels or showing pictures of your family is simple: Nest is a thermostat. 

pegobry:

thedailyfeed:

New Orleans sure knows how to throw a Fat Tuesday party. Revelers (including that adorable Napoleon baby!) took over the Big Easy yesterday for a parade in the Garden District and debauchery in the French Quarter. 

Awesome kid is awesome.

Yep! Awesome kid is awesome :)