December 2009
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Are Editors Obsolete? AOL Plans For Algorithms To... →
You know what I call these “algorithm” types? Scabs!
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November 2009
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“Oh, how cute! It’s a little old lady computer! December 2008. Wow. I mean,...”
– Mike Albo (@albomike) as a Genius Bar worker in Unitard, a comedic trio. Saw it last night. I give it two thumbs up. And a big toe.
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“She’s witty, she’s poignant, and she’s somehow in touch with both the young, mod...”
– Golly, that sounds like a lady I’d like to meet!
LIT REVIEW: Anna Jane Grossman’s OBSOLETE, Philadelphia City Paper
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The pen can write poetry or a death sentence.
Interesting piece at Short Stack about the new book eTrust: Forming Relationships in the Online World.
I like this argument that obsolete technology can be just as “dangerous” as the new vanguard.
“After the widespread adoption of online communication in the 1990’s, it did not take long before the dangers of sexually explicit material and personal indiscretion became the...
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5 Materials That Will Make The World as We Know It... →
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WatchBefore there was the iPhone, there was the Astrolabe. Is there an app for that?
They’re more than a thousand years old but all Astrolabes still work! What’s more, they’ll never be obsolete. And they will never run out out batteries. And they will never shatter into a middle pieces, forcing you to slouch back to the Genius Bar where you just had the thing replaced three hours...
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Phone carcass found in tree →
From The Clarkson Integrator of Clarkson University, 11/23/09:
The quiet Tuesday morning calm was shattered by the gruesome discovery of a corded telephone carcass brutally abandoned in a tree outside of CAMP. Students were shocked to learn of the attack and have avoided the area where the remains were found. The tree is located along the fence separating the construction of the student center...
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Ten things mobiles have made, or will make,... →
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It's hard out there for a pimp. I mean, a mailman.... →
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We may be some of the last people who bought our...
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bijan:
This morning, like most Fridays, I take my daughters to breakfast before school (the boy hangs at home with mom. No preschool on Fridays)
My oldest is now 10. And these days she is selling me hard on why she wants a phone.
This morning was no different.
I’m not ready to give her one yet. And i gave her my reasons.
Then she asked “dad, when did you get your first phone?”
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I am a chair.
Greg Reitman sent me a link to a PBS site where you can find out what object you are. Or what object you would be, if you were an object. (Don’t worry: they are all objects that are MOMA-permanent collection worthy.) I came out as an Eames lounge chair. It’s a chair I actually really do love. Interestingly, my birthday is in February…
I was hoping I’d come out as, like,...
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Typewriters and moon people →
My friend and general girl-crush Melena Ryzik (aka the NYT’s Urban Eye) did this funny piece on… people who make siren sounds and visit from the moon. All in a day’s work. BUT, did you know: visitors from the moon take direction via typewriter? Yuh-huh!
“Today, technology allows for a global community unlike any one nation’s in the...”
– Talisa Chang in a lovely piece about the debate on obsolescence at Word last week in the Greenpoint Gazette.
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East is east
Last night a woman at Union Square asked me which way was east. And I knew! And I don’t even have an iPhone!
Then I got to thinking about how east is relative. Are we east of Chelsea? Yes. But you could also say we are just really, really far west.
In a compass-free future, will they say “east?” Or just “E?” Will “east” look to them like...