August 2009
The MTA Refuses to Rename Subway Station for... →
For months now, City Councilwoman Letitia James has been agitating for the MTA to rename Brooklyn’s Hoyt-Schermerhorn station — where the music video for “Bad” was filmed in 1987 — in honor of Michael Jackson. She’s even starting a petition. But the MTA has callously denied her request, since there are currently no guidelines for renaming stations and because...
Basics - Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious... →
Reporting earlier this summer in the journal Science, Nuno Sousa of the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of Minho in Portugal and his colleagues described experiments in which chronically stressed rats lost their elastic rat cunning and instead fell back on familiar routines and rote responses, like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets they had no intention...
Ten of Times 50 Best Sites were built in NY
jschwa:
Time just released the 50 Best Websites of 2009 and ten of them were built right here in New York. Congratulations to the founders and their teams.
#2 Delicious #15 Vimeo #20 Kayak (CT) #22 Etsy #23 PropertyShark #28 ConsumerSearch #35 Supercook #43 Drop.io #46 OMGPOP #50 Know Your Meme
Not to downplay our inclusion but what kind of list puts Delicious as #3 (Sorry, Josh) but no...
Magma Open to Everyone
magmavideos:
Today marks a big day for Magma — our website is now officially open to everyone. Sign up now if you have not already.
We owe a large thanks to the nearly five thousand beta users. Their wonderful suggestions and feedback were invaluable during our three month beta period. During that time, we have collected over 65,000 videos, millions of rows of video statistics, and tons of...
Premiere: The Very Best f. MIA, “Rain Dance” MP3 «... →
The Very Best, aka Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit, join with FADER #27 cover and all-around FADER muse MIA for one of the more hectic deep cuts off The Warm Heart of Africa LP, finally available for purchase tomorrow.
Follow the link for the mp3.
How Race Is Lived In America | The Awl →
So last night I was meeting a couple of friends for drinks in Brooklyn… [snip] I wandered through the streets, seeking the aid of anyone who might help me reach my meeting place… [snip]
I came upon an African-American woman in her late forties who was walking a large dog. With a big, friendly smile on my face, I inquired if she might help point me toward where I needed to go.
...
WatchAnil Dash on The Future of New Media
Pretty great, very thoughtful ideas from Anil. Now that New Media is no longer just geeks, it’s about what the rest of the world is interested in: culture and content. How do we start creating content for the other 99% of the world?
via Big Think
Life After Memes: Kenyatta Cheese on Susan... →
PopTech interviewed me about memes and things. We talk about our emergent behavior, our criteria for memeiness, and link to a video of a dog in a swing. Fun.
Category mistake - Wikipedia, the free... →
A category mistake, or category error, is a semantic or ontological error by which a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property. One example is that of a foreign student visiting a university. As the student is shown the various campuses, buildings, libraries, fields, et cetera, the student asks, “But where is the university?” This is to equate the level...
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Dan Dennett on dangerous memes (2002)
Dan Dennett talks about the idea of memes as being the one thing separating humans from other life in that we’re the only species who have subjugated our genetic interests to other interests. Of course, animals that get infected by parasites are the exception. Presented soon after the events of September 2001, he goes on to relate the spread of memes to...
Where is Molly?
dembot:
People have been asking about Molly. Molly is in the UK and we are waiting to be sure that our governments approve Molly’s work visa before we are finally allowed to work together. We are hoping it will happen this upcoming week in which case Molly will be begin hosting Rocketboom daily asap, thanks for keeping a look out! In the meantime, the rest of the Rocketboom crew is rocking it...
Never Can Say Goodbye (Neptunes Remix) - Michael...
junkdrawer: I really wish I could’ve heard a MJ album with Neptunes’ production
misterjt:
Never Can Say Goodbye (Neptunes Remix) by Michael Jackson Download now or listen on posterous Never Can Say Goodbye (Neptunes Remix).mp3 (4594 KB) Posted via email from The Pensieve | Comment »
Two listens and I can’t tell if I like this at all.
An Assist For Nick Van Exel: How An NBA... →
Last month, someone on the APBRmetrics forum — an APBRmetrician, for the uninitiated, is a sabermetrician in a Wes Unseld throwback jersey — posted a friend’s account of life as an NBA scorekeeper, mostly as an illustration of all the bias and sanctioned bullshit afflicting even the most straightforward basketball statistics. It’s fascinating. This fellow says he was formerly the...
Conversation on the B25 btw Lafayette & Vanderbilt
Woman: And the way they treating Obama is a shame.
Man: Mmm hmm.
Woman: Because you know all that going on with protesting health care is racist.
Man: Yup.
Woman: Like what's happening down in Florida -- you know that ain't about no health care.
Man: Mmm hmm.
Woman: That's all because they got a black president. They think the world done turn upside down.
Man: Yup.
Woman: But they don't know we still got it worst because the Mexicans trying to steal all *our* jobs.
Man: ....
Man: You a fool.
(I should note that a few people within earshot of this conversation laughed out loud, including me.)
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View (Art Fag City) →
One year ago, I started collecting screen captures of Google Street Views from a range of Street View blogs and through my own hunting. This essay illustrates how my Street View collections reflect the excitement of exploring this new, virtual world. The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of the weight accorded to external reality, the perception of...
Snabbery: Why the Saab inspires intense feelings →
Albert Muniz, an associate professor of marketing at DePaul University in Chicago, has written repeatedly about Saab in his work on “brand communities”. Examining the behaviour of Saab drivers, he has discovered hierarchy, also known as “Snaabery”: often defined by owning an original, pre-GM Saab; the moral responsibilities of flashing your lights at other Saab drivers and helping them out of...
I said 'lunch' not 'launch'
Nate: im going to Bread with Charles
yatta: i'm glad there's an 'r' and an 'a' in that statement.
Daily Show Blurs Foursquare Logo →
fimoculous: I thought I saw a blurred out Foursquare logo on the Daily Show last night too. I rewound and paused twice. It happened.
charitini: Too funny - Amanda Peyton also won the Abrams Research Social Media Survey Wildcard Quiz this past February. Point being, she’s everywhere.
I, for one, would buy a special edition FourSquare shirt with a blurred logo.
Reporter’s Follow-Up Question Answered In His... →
There was an interesting query at today’s White House press briefing!
Q If you look at the protests that we saw outside of the building yesterday as a kind of a continuum from the tea parties and then the controversy over the birth certificate, and then some of the anger over the Gates/Crowley episode — you look back at that, I’m wondering what – MR. GIBBS: Jonathan, let me just —...
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“According to Title 22, Section 1732 of the United States Code: “Whenever it is...”
– Op-Ed - Presidents to the Rescue by Michael J. Griffith - NYTimes.com
