I've Said Too Much

February 1, 2012

"I’ve never seen a world-class sized publication that was founded in the past decade do world class quality work. It’s not because the people running them are dumb–it’s because they don’t have enough time to think their work through because there’s no short term incentive to. There’s an excuse there aren’t enough resources to go around, but that’s bullshit. It just takes a little confidence in the long game."

— Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter

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January 30, 2012

"I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well."

— Letters of Note: To My Old Master

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January 20, 2012

(via Feng shui carried too far) - on the other hand, we don’t put 13th floors into hotels

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January 19, 2012

"In December, a group of professors from America’s top philosophy departments, including Columbia, Yale, and NYU, set out to establish the philosophy of cosmology as a new field of study within the philosophy of physics. The group aims to bring a philosophical approach to the basic questions at the heart of physics, including those concerning the nature, age and fate of the universe. This past week, a second group of scholars from Oxford and Cambridge announced their intention to launch a similar project in the United Kingdom."

— What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic

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January 19, 2012

"The point here isn’t that piracy by American consumers is somehow completely independent from output or employment rates in the content industries—though, again, that’s not at all the same thing as the overall U.S. employment rate. Obviously, at some level it has to have some effect. But the link is, to use the technical economic term, weirder than in many other sectors of the economy."

— Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy | Cato @ Liberty - stellar piece on piracy, content economics and audience behaviour.

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January 17, 2012

(via Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday: 70 iconic pictures from a golden career - mirror.co.uk) - amazing collection of pictures for Ali’s 70th from the Mirror. Including this wholly unexpected one - he and his wife getting their marriage blessed at a mosque in South Shields. We forget Ali’s profile in Britain - it was ENORMOUS.

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January 12, 2012