Storm Destroyer

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Drink in hand, he settled into the numb nothingness of his...

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Drink in hand, he settled into the numb nothingness of his self-imposed isolation.

(Photo: Daniel Hennessy; Dwell, November 2006)

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"LeBron James isn’t honoring the greatness of No. 23, but manipulating Michael Jordan’s marketing..."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:41:17 -0800

“LeBron James isn’t honoring the greatness of No. 23, but manipulating Michael Jordan’s marketing savvy. The changing of his jersey number as a nod to M.J.’s basketball career is a purely fictional cover story. It’s a tribute to Jordan all right, but more like a cynical ode to his business sense. James wants to grow his global brand and push product; flooding the market with a fresh jersey number does the job.”

- LeBron’s M.J. tribute is all about business - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

Volcán de Villarrica, Chile

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Volcán de Villarrica, Chile

Michael Hakimi

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Michael Hakimi

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"If you’ve spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you’ve probably noticed a peculiar literary..."

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:02:36 -0800

“If you’ve spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you’ve probably noticed a peculiar literary trend: the pervasive habit of writers inexplicably placing exclamation points at the end of otherwise unremarkable sentences. Sort of like this! This is done to suggest an ironic detachment from the writing of an expository sentence! It’s supposed to signify that the writer is self-aware! And this is idiotic. It’s the saddest kind of failure. F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that’s not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can’t tell if what they’re creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It’s an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they’re being entertained. Of course, the reader really isn’t sure, either. They just want to know when they’re supposed to pretend that they’re amused. All those extraneous exclamation points are like little splatters of canned laughter: They represent the “form of funny,” which is more easily understood (and more easily constructed) than authentic funniness. I suppose the counter-argument is that Tom Wolfe used a lot of exclamation points, too… but I don’t think that had anything to do with humor or insecurity. The Wolfe-Man was honestly stoked about LSD and John Glenn. I bet he didn’t even own a TV. It was a different era!”

- Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur

Buzz Lightyear by Raoni Nery.

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:17:38 -0800

Buzz Lightyear by Raoni Nery.

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"Ilgauskas will get bought out soon, and he’ll be back in the Cavs’ lineup before March Madness is..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:32:37 -0800

“Ilgauskas will get bought out soon, and he’ll be back in the Cavs’ lineup before March Madness is over. And in the end, the price of Antawn Jamison, perhaps the final chip to a championship, will be the 29th or 30th pick in the 2010 draft. That’s all. Business as usual in the Don’t-Ask, Don’t-Tell NBA.”

- NBA investigates a lot, catches very little - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

Dulles Airport Terminal, 1958

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:53:46 -0800

Dulles Airport Terminal, 1958

Pierre Ochs of France performs an acrobatic jump during the...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:42:50 -0800

Pierre Ochs of France performs an acrobatic jump during the qualifications of the Men’s Moguls Freestyle Skiing event, on February 14, 2010 at Cypress Mountain venue in Vancouver, Canada.

United States skip Debbie McCormick releases the stone during...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:41:38 -0800

United States skip Debbie McCormick releases the stone during the women’s curling round robin game between Japan and the United States on day 5 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on February 16, 2010.

No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing (or “The 3 Types of...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:39:31 -0800

No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing (or “The 3 Types of Knowledge”)

They found it was the best way to greet the neighbors. Though...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:22:25 -0800

They found it was the best way to greet the neighbors. Though their throats became raw from shouting “hello,” at least the conversations were brief.

Photo: John Clark; Dwell, April 2009)

"Google and Facebook’s entire business model is based on the notion of “monetizing” our privacy. To..."

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:08:55 -0800

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Google and Facebook’s entire business model is based on the notion of “monetizing” our privacy. To succeed they must slowly change the notion of privacy itself—the “social norm,” as Facebook puts it—so that what we’re giving up doesn’t seem so valuable. Then they must gain our trust. Thus each new erosion of privacy comes delivered, paradoxically, with rhetoric about how Company X really cares about privacy. I’m not sure whether Orwell would be appalled or impressed. And who knew Big Brother would be not a big government agency, but a bunch of kids in Silicon Valley?

The problem with buying things with your privacy is you really don’t know how much you’re paying. With money, five bucks is five bucks. But what is the value of your list of friends? If it’s not worth much, your membership on Facebook may be the deal of a lifetime. If it’s incredibly valuable, you’re getting massively ripped off. Only the techies know how much your info is worth, and they’re not telling. But the fact that they’d rather get your data than your dollars tells you all you need to know.

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- Lyons, on Buzz, etc. (via newsweek)