September 2011
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May 2011
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nick: Was formulating a hilarious tweet about... →
nsbarr:
Was formulating a hilarious tweet about Netflix and how you can tell my mom and I share an account from the genre recommendations (“Critically-acclaimed French Dramas,” “Horror Movies,” etc.)
Then found myself debating whether to @ a friend, because while the tweet would be relevant to him, it…
Every tweet of mine goes through this filter and has all the @`s removed.
March 2011
3 posts
“…our world having once emerged for no purpose, nobody knows exactly how, it...”
– Leszek Kołakowski, Religion If There Is No God. (via mills)
nick: In defense of corporate jargon →
nsbarr:
I read a lot of Dilbert when I was a kid (weird how popular that strip is among pre-employment audiences), so I grew up hating corporate jargon before ever being around it. I snickered at synergy before I knew what it meant.
Now that I’ve spent almost 3(!) years in the workplace, I’ve come to…
Other examples I`ve encountered:
“We`ve got John here to give us some color on...
January 2011
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October 2010
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July 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
1 post
Donation Spam
That could be a way to catalyze donations, consciousness of or support for anything. Create a form of “socially conscious spam”, where the goal isn’t for the user to purchase V!agr@ or enlarge their penis, but to give money or get behind a particular cause.
On website, launch irritating popups that only go away once you commit to a $2 microdonation. Email newsletters that...
August 2009
1 post
Prison, garbage, death and choice
Pictured: Rainer Werner Fassbinder — a gay, crazier Joaquin Phoenix of the past
There’s a Fassbinder movie where one of the characters is “on the lam” and hides from the police in an abandoned prison.
Once I read that, I realized this was the green shoot for a new system of punishment that combines the need to keep criminals from continuing to harm others with a desire...
April 2009
1 post
My Two Plants
The rain killed my plant at home
And my plant at work gets a lot of water
But from my water bottle
So the plant which is
Close to nature is dead
And the one that lives inside an office
Is Alive
February 2009
1 post
January 2009
3 posts
