May 2012
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Recent Must Reads.
The Cooler Me.
Reality Check and Stunts. Gut-wrenching tales of startup life.
The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret.
And the very good reads:
What’s in a Name? Part 2. Part 3. Excellent highbrow essays by Errol Morris.
Your Cat Is Making You Crazy.
George Wright. Story about a man on the run from the FBI for 41 years.
George Hotz, Sony, and the Anonymous...
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WatchSuper-dope illustration and animation by Alexander Pettersson.
April 2012
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“Stay wild. Stay curious. Stay f***ing hungry.”
– Dennis Lyxzén
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Recent Good Reads.
Stargate, Ester Dean, and the current pop-manufacturing landscape.
Obama vs Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal? Fantastic insider information.
Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses.
Lobbyists, Guns, and Money.
Nature vs Nurture: Nurture.
How One Man Escaped from a North Korean Prison Camp. Amazing.
On the Market. Behind the curtain at Sotheby’s. Sounds horrible.
Sad Update on Antoine...
March 2012
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WatchGorgeous UFC promo starring Jon Jones.
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“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.”
– David Ogilvy
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Recent Good Reads.
Africa’s Dirty Wars. A bit here on Kony’s LRA and the state-less rebels without a cause who are running amok through the continent.
Inside the September 13th 2011 U.S. Embassy Attack in Kabul.
The Mystery of the 18 Twitching Teenagers. Mass psychogenic illness reminds me of Chunk’s puking story in The Goonies.
Lenny Dykstra. I’ve posted Dykstra’s crazy life story...
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Fight Club trivia. →
I’m pretty sure David Fincher is a genius. IMDB has a great list of many of the clever little touches that were included in Fight Club, one of his pinnacle achievements and a rallying cry for the XY-chromosomed of my generation.
One of the coolest things I learned from that IMDB page is that Fincher cut several super-subversive spots to pitch to Fox as an anti-marketing campaign. Which they...
February 2012
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WatchFuture of the Leffffffft!
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WatchRusko and Cypress Hill. Song: 6/10. Video: amazeballs.
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Some Recent Good Reads.
A clear-eyed look back at Obama’s first term.
Mass Incarceration in America.
More, more, more condemnation of Scientology.
Will Israel Attack Iran?, by an investigative reporter from Israel’s largest paper with access to the highest levels of Israeli government. TL;DR: Yes.
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January 2012
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WatchMatthew Dear - “In The Middle (I Met You There)” feat. bro from The Drums.
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Joe Paterno: The God Who Fell to Earth. →
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Do Sports Build Character or Damage It? →
Philosopher-warrior inspection of the value of sports in society and how they relate in particular to a man’s psyche. Dude can WRITE.
This Is My Jam →
Reblogged from palmspringsbeats:
By my non-technical calculations, Music was the first entertainment industry to go through the diamond-toothed meatgrinder of sharing technology enabled by the Internet.
I can remember downloading my first MP3 on Napster during my Freshman year of college. I had a brand new Dell desktop and a…
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Roger Williams profile. →
Very interesting man I’d never heard of before today. He was the precursor to Thomas Jefferson and is largely responsible for the idea of separation of church and state.
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The Myth of Japan’s Failure. →
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Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? →
What’s old is new and what’s new is just a retread of the past two decades. Very interesting article from December’s Vanity Fair.
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NY Times on why we should pay college athletes. →
December 2011
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Solitude and Leadership. →
Truly excellent and intellectual speech given to West Point students back in October 2009. As good as Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address. For real.