August 2011
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February 2011
2 posts
March 2010
2 posts
YouTube vs. Viacom
Zahavah Levine, chief counsel for YouTube in its litigation with Viacom:
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube...
February 2010
2 posts
“You may learn information about yourself that you do not anticipate. This...”
– 23andMe, warning me of a risk of using their genetic testing services, in their “Consent and Legal Agreement” (via jakelodwick)
“Picking the right text editor will not make you a better writer. Writing will...”
– Mark Pilgrim on The Setup
January 2010
32 posts
“Another purveyor of fine content is Maria Popova, who calls this curating...”
– ‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Some believe that embarrassing things will become less embarrassing once...”
– German Spiegel on Google Goggles’ Face Recognition and More
“I worry about the echo chamber of tumblrs and their ilk and the meaningless...”
– ARCHIVE AND CONQUER
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the...”
– Saul Bass (via davidkaneda) (via marco)
WatchTortoise - Gigantes on pitchfork.tv
WatchThe Sea and Cake - Weekend on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchWow this looks great - Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A
“These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered—combined with the...”
– Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
But I simply had to buy Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream. It’s number one in the charts here, in the US, Australia and Ireland – whereas I only bought But Seriously because it was top of the Oxford Our Price’s store chart. Either people are idiots, I reasoned, or this record must be brilliant.
I didn’t really think that. The confusing and varying disparity between the...
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: Yemen - The Return Of Old... →
Adam Curtis on Britain’s dubious history in the Yemen
brian eno on miles davis
When you listen to Miles Davis, how much of what you hear is music, and how much is context? Another way of saying that is, ‘What would you be hearing if you didn’t know you were listening to Miles Davis?’ I think of context as everything that isn’t physically contained in the grooves of the record, and in his case that seems quite a lot. It includes your knowledge, first...
The Feelies - Loveless Love
December 2007
2 posts
“We met up in the evening around 7 or 8 and then we watched mostly TV news after...”
– Wolfgang Flür, Kraftwerk
March 2007
6 posts
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February 2007
2 posts
WatchSugarcube - Yo La Tengo