Why are the East of Cities usually Poorer?
Fascinating read on the impact of weather patterns on socioeconomic conditions. (H/T Noah)
PATTON OSWALT TO GEEKS EVERYWHERE: Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die
Read moreThis plaque hangs in an unnamed jeweler’s mens’ restroom over the urinals. Wonder what impacts the reader’s comprehension more – how much they drank that day, or the girl waiting for them outside? [via]
Read moreRich people forgot the French term ‘noblesse oblige’ because poor people forgot the French word ‘guillotine.’
Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine — too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will not go away. It leads to endless wrenching debate about price, copyright, ‘intellectual property’, the moral rightness of casual distribution, because each round of new devices makes the tension worse, not better.
Stewart Brand [via]
INFLUENCERS is a film by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson about “How trends and creativity become contagious.“ WATCH IT ONLINE NOW [via]
Read moreI’m homeless, very homeless, dirt broke and all, but I still own an iPad and a MSI Wind u130 netbook. These, I feel, are essential tools… Being without a home is not that big a deal in today’s world, but having connections to the rest of the world is pretty important.
Christina Hendricks on an endless loop
Christina Hendricks on an endless loop
Great article about “the glorious GIF renaissance” on Slate.
The 13 Funniest Smiling Cigar Guy Pics (So Far). Backstory on Smiling Cigar Guy. [via]
Read moreEurope According to France, from the Mapping Stereotypes collection by Alphadesigner
Read moreDid Manute Bol invent the phrase ‘my bad’?
Did Manute Bol invent the phrase ‘my bad’?
Brilliant. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 10, 1989 (by way of Boing Boing):
When he [Manute Bol] throws a bad pass, he’ll say, “My bad” instead of “My fault,” and now all the other players say the same thing.
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