May 2012
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BRYCE DOT VC: The Ballerinas of Silicon Valley →
brycedotvc:
Sorry Eric, but I hate the word pivot.
Somehow, over the last year or so Pivot has managed some literary slight of hand in which it has transformed (pivoted?) itself from a verb to a noun. Crossed over from a series of actions taken out of necessity in achieving an objective to becoming the…
April 2012
3 posts
“You’re on national TV. Shave your back.”
– Brian Suddreth
“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is...”
– E. B. White (via misswallflower)
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Equal In the Eyes of Coffee
You can have a million more Twitter followers than me.
You can have a million more dollars than me.
But you cannot drink a million more cups of coffee than me, because you cannot drink a million cups of coffee. Unless you drink 45 cups a day, every day, for 60 years.
Which means now matter how powerful you are in other arenas, you cannot use check-ins alone to elevate your favorite coffee...
March 2012
4 posts
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“When you run make sure you run
To something and not away from”
– “The Weight of Lies” - The Avett Brothers
Siggy Runs a Marathon: I did it →
siggyrunsamarathon:
“It’s not the goal; it’s the journey.” Something we’ve all heard a million times, but never understand until we actually get to our goal. Millions of people from all over the world run marathons every year, it is nothing novel. Many run with grace and stride, as if God built them for it. And then…
Awesome post from my brother-in-law’s girlfriend Siggy, who...
“Trying to make a movie in Hollywood is like trying to grill a steak by having a...”
– Douglas Adams
January 2012
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September 2011
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Dear Turntable.fm
Dear Turntable.fm,
Hi. You should charge me for being “anti-social.” For a monthly fee, let me note songs I like and let me listen to them on my own, through an iPhone app. Make me pay to create a channel of 1, i.e. me. If I want to take from the common good (and I do) charge me for it.
I would pay to be selfish. And you should let me.
XO, Hue
June 2011
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Wage stagnation for American men →
trevorloy:
Alex Tabarrok put up some stunning charts last week, showing a comparison between the wages of American men vs. GDP since World War II, and the wages of American women vs. GDP since World War II. The graph for men is basically flat since the mid 1970s, while the graph for women has tracked continued GDP growth pretty well.
This data follows up on the same themes as Hanna Rosin’s...
May 2011
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“On matters of freedom and equality, history has not remembered obstructionists...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/nyregion/mayor-bloomberg-states-case-for-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=1&nl=nyregion&emc=ura1
March 2011
5 posts
“It is as though the earth becomes like a great brass bell, which when struck by...”
–
Simon Winchester (via joshuanguyen)
Um….. (via markcoatney)
Yeah…”heart” isn’t the best option for this post.
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Notes From Underground on Libya
Why, look around you: blood is flowing in rivers, and in such a jolly way besides, like champagne.
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February 2011
12 posts
Business is theater.
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Note #1 script, NFU
This is part of a larger open-source movie project. If you want to perform this and post it, great. Feedback, mockery, interpretive dance, movie clips, photos, all are welcome. Just tag any posts notes from underground and I’ll find it. Just don’t take the text and pass it off as your own. Copyright © Hue Rhodes, 2011. All rights reserved.
INT. WEBCAM VIDEO -...
Public Service Announcement
markcoatney:
Allow me to reintroduce Al Jazeera, now in its rightful home at aljazeera.tumblr.com. Follow!
The Social Network →
heyitsnoah:
I’ve been having a lot of conversations about movies lately. Mostly I’m unimpressed by this year’s Oscar nominated films (though I haven’t seen all of them yet). The one I seem to disagree with the most people on is Social Network, which I essentially thought sounded more like a movie full of characters speaking like they’re written by Aaron Sorkin than speaking like the characters...
“Can you name any country that became a democracy after a violent revolution?...”
– Sean Hannity, on Egypt (thanks, Cayman)
Gosh, what was the name of that one? Two words, first one starts with a U…
(via apsies)
Are you fucking serious????
(via fireflyinthesky)
Amazing.
(via meowsense)
HahahahaHA. Ahhhhhhh. Idiot.
(via bluebears)
I want to live in the world of FOX hosts...
January 2011
18 posts
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“The greatest threat to communication is not difference but sameness....”
– Robert Bringhurst
http://nyti.ms/eaODb1 →
Good to see how positive the younger generation is about being mixed. Not sure I would have had the guts in college.
“This is the Arab world’s Berlin moment. The authoritarian wall has fallen – and...”
– Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations at the London School of Economics. (via newsflick)
"The least of eloquence...": Dear fatima Tumblr,... →
thenewfilo:
Dear fatima Tumblr, Thirty years of repression is spilling out onto the streets of Egypt in the forms of tear-gas, blood and bitter demonstrations. For four days, Egyptian protestors have suffered at the hands of President Mubarak’s security forces. At least 14 protestors have been killed…
There is something profound happening in Tumblr. It is beyond news feed or curation. It is the information equivalent of a chemical reaction.
“What a strange world we live in that Salt can open with Angelina Jolie having a...”
– King’s Speech director Tom Hooper.
“Ford became a self-taught professional carpenter to support his then-wife and...”
– Harrison Ford - Wikipedia
Even huge-deal badasses can take until 31 to get their first real role.
Also, you-never-know-what-your-current-job-will-yield.
(via nickdouglas)
I like this a lot.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via shaneguiter)
“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King
What would he have done with his time today? What are you going to do with yours?
via Seth’s Blog (via brycedotvc)
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
Well when you put it like that…
(via spytap)
“[Sarah Palin] always doubles down. There is nothing about her that tells you she...”
– James Carville
Scot Stafford: Rock & Roll High School →
scotstafford:
Hue’s blogpost on Devo, and genius assertion that Notes From Underground was punk, got me thinking.
In his first book The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, young punk philosopher (and admirer of NFU) Friedrich Nietzsche envisions an enantiomorph whose legacy continues to this day:…
Saint John of Las Vegas
danielwr:
Just finished watching Saint John of Las Vagas, a really enjoyable, funny and interesting take on the Inferno by Dante. Highly recommended.
Thanks!!!
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L'esprit de l'escalier
Scot Stafford (that’s Scot Fucking Stafford) summarized Notes From Underground this way:
L’esprit de l’escalier (or l’esprit d’escalier), usually translated as “staircase wit”, is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too...
scotstafford:
Above: Blizzard, a musical...
December 2010
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Updated Notes From Underground Holiday Video
Open on empty frame of blizzard. Hold long enough to establish authority and demonstrate confidence.
Peter steps into frame. Drags on cigarette.
PETER
You know those holiday letters, where people tell you how great their year has been? Here goes:
I have no spouse.
I have no kids.
[Camera pans off Peter, to the right]
PETER VO, WHILE CAMERA PANS OVER STREETS IN BLIZZARD
There were no...