April 2010
March 2010
Your New Hipster Slur: Fauxhemians [Gawker] →
When I was complaining about the seemingly unstoppable raccoon tail trend, I understood fauxhemian and hipster to be two distinct, but related, concepts. Now, though, they appear to be unifying.
The Morning News Tournament of Books: Wolf Hall... →
Both semifinals of this year’s Tournament of Books have essentially been decided on the physical presentation of the texts. Is this some sort of complicated meta-statement against electronic reading on the eve of the iPad’s arrival?
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“And yes, there is the possibility (however implausible) that I’ll never lifecast...”
– Julia Allison. Who among us hasn’t entertained a such a prospect?
Texting and Walking | HIPSTER RUNOFF →
frankly, I’m surprised that this essay was limited to five photos. and that there weren’t more t&w-induced collisions.
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How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time... →
basically a central premise of Caprica.
“E-readers are going to make a book like Infinite Jest easier to read and much...”
– Kevin Guilfoile, dissecting Wolf Hall’s defeat of graphic novel Logicomix in the first round face-off. [Tournament of Books]
“But from that perspective, food stamp-using foodies might be applauded for...”
– “Hipsters on food stamps” [Salon.com].
It’s kind of baffling that this overly tentative point is buried so far into a surprisingly sneering article about the increasing numbers of twenty- to thirty-year-olds who are now receiving government nutrition assistance.
“Just because something is publicly accessible does not mean that people want it...”
– danah boyd, in her SXSW keynote, “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity”.
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CNN: Foursquare takes lead in where-am-I apps →
david:
Quite an endorsement! I can’t even keep track of all the features and partnerships Dens, Naveen, and team have been pushing — all while breezing by an awful lot of incumbent competition. You guys are incredible. (via lavrusik)
Hey CNN: shouldn’t that headline read “where-I-am” apps? And why does everyone insist in putting check-in in quotes?
(not to diminish from the...
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The Magnetic Fields: Live At Town Hall, New York... →
the past was so much different and difficult, yet somehow more rewarding, as far as musicfandom goes. or, rather, went.
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“For some reason trying to pretend that you’re a middle aged married man...”
– Claire tells it like it is, political scandal style. [Zulkey.com]
WatchNational Debut “Terrible Love” On Fallon [Stereogum] and you don’t even need to stay up late to hear it.
“If I’m in another location, I can actually sit and look at that screen and see...”
– Joe Sorge, on Foursquare’s new business toolkit. [NYTimes via @busterbenson] I’m glad that they’re going to opt-in/opt-out on the user level because for everyone who might find an unexpected SMS from a distant owner cool, there are more than a few others who will find it...
“Not only does your heart die when you get older, your face bloats, your skin...”
– Alex Balk on the John “too important for the Death Montage” Huges tribute segment. [The Awl]
