January 2009
39 posts
“Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, posted an 8.7 percent...”
– bloomberg.com
Academic Earth →
“This is incredible, and doesn’t cost $160,000. Free lectures from Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, covering a ton of subjects, for absolutely free.
More than lectures, AE offers entire courses. This Yale course on the American novel, for instance, spans 25 lessons.
Also of note: the @Google series of lengthy interviews, including a month-old one with Chris Onstad of...
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via citizenrockfordkane) (via bananasareyellow) (via bravery) (via havent-got-a-prayer) (via applewagon)
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs (via gcn) (via soupsoup) (via david) (via jotterbook)
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via skysignal) (via robot-heart)
WatchCrowdsourced 2009 Predictions
http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2009/01/crowdsourced-2009-predictions.html
From geek to online guru
“A dyslexic web designer turns professional photographer and author. A call-centre operative becomes a fashion designer. A single mother goes from selling make-up on Ebay to launching her own beauty range and newspaper column.
All owe their change in fortunes to their popularity on social networks such as MySpace, YouTube and Flickr. People who in previous generations would have been no...
Best Amazon Review Ever
Please allow me to share with you how “The Secret” changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of “The Secret” is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those things that you don’t want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of...
Secretary of the Arts Petition →
Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this and the country needs the arts—now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass it on to your friends...
“You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as...”
– Charles Baudelaire (via sleepanddream) (via deepestbreath) (via taylorswaim) (via buyhercandy) (via kwbird) (via havent-got-a-prayer) (via singlescoop)
