January 2012
17 posts
Charlie O’Donnell Launches Brooklyn Bridge... →
kmaverick:
So awesome.
Right on, Charlie! The real question is: will this get @kmaverick and @cstoller to come back to BK?
“We need your help - please take a minute and act now. Legislation is pending in...”
– An email we received from Universal Music Group, obviously RE: SOPA and PIPA. (via thecultureofme)
Nope.
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December 2011
17 posts
Are Creative People More Dishonest? - Carmen Nobel... →
underpaidgenius:
Steve Jobs was theorethically channeling Picasso when he said ‘Good artists borrow, great artists steal,’ but he may have been onto something. It turns out that creatives are more likely to cheat, according to new research by Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely:
Francesca Gino
Carmen Nobel via HBS Working Knowledge
Is there a link between creativity and unethical behavior?
There...
nycdigital:
Interior Rendering of New Cornell University-Technion Applied Sciences Campus on Roosevelt Island
I love Ithaca bigtime, but jeezus why do Cornell campuses always have to be in the most depressing places: Ithaca, Upper East Side, Qatar, Roosevelt Island?!
Underpaid Genius: New York Now Allows Benefit... →
underpaidgenius:
New York has passed legislation to allo the formation of a new sort of corporation — a Benefit Corporation, or B Corp:
Kyle Westaway, New Legal Structures for ‘Social Entrepreneurs’
The Benefit Corporation is a new class of corporation with a corporate purpose to create public benefit,…
Woohoo! If you want to learn more about the changing landscape of the...
CIAT BLOG » Blog Archive » +2.3 degrees = 0... →
Over half of the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa produced by smallholders in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, many of whom are fair-trade certified. The CIAT study has found that rising temperatures in cocoa-producing regions of these countries could spell trouble for this heat sensitive crop, and the farmers who depend on it. Funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it is the first of three...
Don’t You Want Me (Instrumental) - The Human...
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November 2011
22 posts
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“The mayor, at his news conference in the morning, read a statement he had issued...”
– New York Times
“Making it unavailable to anyone else?” Are you kidding me, Bloomberg?
the knoblr: Austerity, Then and Now →
hotdoorknobs:
Krugman:
Postwar austerity in Britain was driven by real, obvious limits on resources. In particular, foreign exchange was in short supply. At a basic level, people knew why things were rationed — Britain had spent heavily on the war, it had to scrimp to pay its bills.
Today, by contrast, austerity is being imposed because men in suits say that it’s necessary to satisfy the...
“I’m really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is...”
– Drake to Pitchfork re: tumblr [quote via somethingchanged]
As someone who’s met a fair amount of the people I spend time around on tumblr, I’m gonna go ahead and try to parse this for half a minute.
The only blogs he seems to be talking about are shitty fashion blogs or reblog tumblrs that aren’t...
exfm blog: Relative Pitch: Build It For Yourself →
extensionfm:
Relative Pitch: Build It For Yourself
Great platforms on the web are inherently authentic. But why? I think the answer is the founder (or founders) of those platforms set out to build something they wanted to use. It didn’t start with the notion, “How can I build something that will make me a ton of money.” It was more, “I’d like something that does X and X doesn’t exist so I will...
“It’s time for a fundamental reform: Any person who works for a company that,...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb, End Bonuses for Bankers (via underpaidgenius)
Darren Aronofsky Directs Four Terrifying Anti-Meth... →
interweber:
WHEN YOU HIRE SOMEONE TO MAKE COMMERCIALS ABOUT METH, YOU HIRE DARREN ARONOFSKY.
I worked on The Meth Project back at Razorfish. We did loads of focus groups with meth addicts and teens at risk. These ads and the previous round of ads before them, which are equally as horrifying, all depict the truth. Well done Organic, Wild Plum, and Darren “Scaronofsky.”
