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Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s followup to 28 Days Later. I can’t wait to see this.

Pretty funny, but having used the iPhone, that Nokia feels positively Soviet-era. I get the point though.

All kinds of fucking awesome.

“3QuarksDaily has a mashup moment with Poetry Daily”:http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/07/among-the-inert.html
Being inert love rarely bonds, requiring the meeting of two specific individuals, their union instigated by a certain kind of conversation and formalized, typically in the sterility of a bedroom, though there are no shortage of alternate venues.

“Another thought provoking digby post”:http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-not-freedom-by-digby-rick-perlstein.html:
By methodically undermining the public’s will and ability to underwrite the public good, systematically accelerating economic inequality, and making turning oneself into a commodity - “selling out” - the only possible route for young people who wish a reasonably secure middle class existence, conservatives killed liberty.

Google sponsored CMU project on rethinking and reinventing Social Networking software.

Or Whittfield Diffie’s twin. You decide.

I absolutely love this.

Reminds me of those dot com startups that simply aggregated websites onto one long scrollable page. You know the ones.

Twitter in Firefox. I will never get the draw of Twitter for professionals hoping to maximize flow. But whatever.

Spot on on the conditions. But my reaction was the complete opposite.

Design is to Art as Slam Poetry is to Poetry.

Commencement speech from Dana Gioia to the Stanford 2007 Graduating class: “Trade easy pleasures for more complex and challenging ones”
And that—in a more general and less personal sense—is the subject I want to address today, the fact that we live in a culture that barely acknowledges and rarely celebrates the arts or artists.
There is an [...]

Attachment parents they ain’t.

iTunes visualizer plugin on ’shrooms.

The other Windows Webcore browser

Firefox extension that let’s you edit a textarea with any editor of your choosing. Nifty.

“The Fountain”:http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Fountain/70051673 is one of those films that will either move you with the resonance of its themes and technique or bore you to tears as a derivative movie that deep down shows us nothing new, but does so in an elegantly beautiful manner. I’m solidly of the former opinion; but as I’ve had more [...]

Saw the redesigned Kwik-E-Mart nee 7-11 on Pear Street in Mountain View on the way to the fireworks. Awesome, but the novelty wears off fairly quick.