October 2010
44 posts
Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without...
– Colson Whitehead, The Colossus of New York (via villagevoice)
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Digg’s collapse has become a cautionary tale for so-called Web 2.0 companies in...
– Digg: A Cautionary Tale for Web 2.0 Companies (via courtenaybird)
The big lesson of Digg may be simply this: if someone offers you a ridiculous amount of money for a company that wasn’t that hard to build, don’t think twice. Take the money and run.
(via blakeley)
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The way of the future, the way of the future, the way of the future, the way of...
– Howard Hughes in The Aviator (via themoviedoc)
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Much later, when he was able to think about the things that happened to him, he...
– Paul Auster, City of Glass
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There’s a lot of eyeball studies that show that people ignore banner ads when...
– David Cho
(via soupsoup)
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We had this feeling that fiction ought to be good for something,” Franzen says....
– Jonathan Franzen on coversations between he and David Foster Wallace (via awritersruminations) (via girlwithlandscape)
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We can talk until the cows come home about ‘engagement,’ yet if we don’t provide...
– North (via soupsoup)
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Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you. Okay, if you’re so great, you do it— here’s the pencil, make it work … If the window is on your right, you are in your own bed. If the window is over your heart, and it is painted shut, then we are breathing river...
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jdel:
I’m a little hazy on what all this means…considering I never sent this guy anything or met him face to face, it feels like I managed to dodge a bullet. But 11 years ago he parked his Florida-plated Mustang in front of my house, and in the back of my mind I keep playing through the worst case scenario. How quickly this story could have ended so much differently. Well then!
This is scary....